Property Line Ideas/ and Plot Ideas

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Prelude8626

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1. So, Ive been going over and over what I am going to work on come spring and I feel the property lines really need some attention. I have a fair amount of property line frontage that's kind of cut up. Would you guys recommend using the boundary lines and in as food plot or timber or should I be looking the make the edges as thick as possible with bedding and then food inside. open to other ideas.

2. Currently I have 3 small plots that I used from old clearings on my property and I know wherever you make it, the deer will adjust. Do you find it better to have a couple 1-2 acre plots, multiples 1/4 acres plots spread all around, or another idea?

I tried loading my property pictures but can get it to work if anyone could help with that!
 
Im using a combination of MG ,cedar,and virginia pine on my road frontage

A work in progress started ~ 3 years ago

Sorghum x Sudan working well in the interim while the above get established

bill
 
I have a property 450’ wide by 24 acres deep. Deer primarily cross through the middle of the property. I plan on having the property logged and push all the tops to the property line making it only possible for the deer to cross at the each end of the mess.
 
PM me your email and I will try to post pics for you. Meanwhile, what I would do is not put food plots on the edge of your land unless you’re very certain of your neighbors. While I do have one plot at home next to an oilfield lease road it doesn’t concern me much as there’s a box blind that they can plainly see, but they can’t tell if anyone is in it or not.

Size of plots in my view. I do both. On the place I sold, I had two large plots in the center of the place that we never hunted, one large plot that we did hunt, then I had smaller plots that we did hunt. The larger plots were planted spring and fall, the smaller ones generally only in fall. Then I had a couple perennial clover plots.
 
Are you concerned at all about neighbors hunting your boundaries? Are deer in danger around your perimeter, do you want them there, away from there, or don't give a darn?
 
Prelude8626 said:
1. So, Ive been going over and over what I am going to work on come spring and I feel the property lines really need some attention. I have a fair amount of property line frontage that's kind of cut up. Would you guys recommend using the boundary lines and in as food plot or timber or should I be looking the make the edges as thick as possible with bedding and then food inside. open to other ideas.

2. Currently I have 3 small plots that I used from old clearings on my property and I know wherever you make it, the deer will adjust. Do you find it better to have a couple 1-2 acre plots, multiples 1/4 acres plots spread all around, or another idea?

I tried loading my property pictures but can get it to work if anyone could help with that!
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Start with where you want to hunt. Then figure out how you'll get there without getting busted. Then keep your habitat improvements 100 yards away from that route.

For me, food goes where it is best able to be hunted. Then it goes where it's easiest to open up. I keep my food in the NW And SW corners of my property (cabin on NE side). I'd also mix in some barley.
 
catscratch said:
Are you concerned at all about neighbors hunting your boundaries? Are deer in danger around your perimeter, do you want them there, away from there, or don't give a darn?
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I would like them away on two boundaries and the others boundaries connect to non hunting property. One section could be retirements homes in years to come. But no pressure from there
 
Plan ahead. Put plots where you can have stands for all the different winds. I made the mistake a couple times off putting plots where they were easiest to plant just to find that they were in spots where the wind was impossible. I'm dozing in 2 new plots this year and one will be for an East wind, the other for a west.
 
swat1018 said:
Plan ahead. Put plots where you can have stands for all the different winds. I made the mistake a couple times off putting plots where they were easiest to plant just to find that they were in spots where the wind was impossible. I'm dozing in 2 new plots this year and one will be for an East wind, the other for a west.
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This is one mistake I made on the place I sold. I carved out a beautiful plot, about two acres, in a creek bottom that I could hardly hunt. The wind was as fickle as my first wife. I finally managed to save it by only hunting from a box blind with an Ozonics unit when the wind was out of the S or SE and blowing at least 5/10 mph. I wanted so badly to bowhunt there, but I couldn’t. Almost all other scenarios ended with me getting busted. Fortunately, we get a majority of winds like that between northers and I had other places to hunt on a N wind.
 
Thanks to Drycreek for posting the picture for me. The red dotted line is old atv trails that where preciously there. The purple is temporary plots. They where just old landings.
 
The number one most important thing to consider with your questions in the OP is hunting stand accessibility without spooking deer. All other concerns are secondary to this consideration. As to plots, too many 1/4 acre plots can be a problem to hunt, unless you have a lot of hunters. If you are hunting alone and have multiple small plots you will always be hunting one, sitting there wondering if your target buck is at one of the other plots. And again, a smaller plot is more difficult to access and egress without spooking deer. I like to pile up downed trees and stumps with a grapple to make barriers to conceal some of my movements in the woods.
 
yea, I've been planning on doing that with brush and tree tops and entry/exit is my first priority to the stand. one problem I ran into this year was that they destroyed my plots and I didn't have nearly enough food. another problem being I could use more bedding location. the property line marked "Dennis Brown" could turn into retirement homes but Im hoping it only stays to the outside that, but I figured from hunting in more populated areas of PA growing up. Deer always like to bed right up against the neighborhoods so that might be a good plan to start thickening up that line now.
 
Prelude8626 said:
yea, I've been planning on doing that with brush and tree tops and entry/exit is my first priority to the stand. one problem I ran into this year was that they destroyed my plots and I didn't have nearly enough food. another problem being I could use more bedding location. the property line marked "Dennis Brown" could turn into retirement homes but Im hoping it only stays to the outside that, but I figured from hunting in more populated areas of PA growing up. Deer always like to bed right up against the neighborhoods so that might be a good plan to start thickening up that line now.
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What did you have planted that the deer destroyed? With your plots being so small you should probably stick to clover and grain combinations.
 
Mennoniteman said:
The number one most important thing to consider with your questions in the OP is hunting stand accessibility without spooking deer. All other concerns are secondary to this consideration. As to plots, too many 1/4 acre plots can be a problem to hunt, unless you have a lot of hunters. If you are hunting alone and have multiple small plots you will always be hunting one, sitting there wondering if your target buck is at one of the other plots. And again, a smaller plot is more difficult to access and egress without spooking deer. I like to pile up downed trees and stumps with a grapple to make barriers to conceal some of my movements in the woods.
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That is true about small plots IF you hunt your plots. Prelude, how many acres of land is the property?
 
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