Thank you Chainsaw! I always appreciate your gracious and considerate commentary and thought!
The short answer to your question is, nothing!" The "draw" is elsewhere but to get to the draw there's some travel involved!
Now the rest of the story. The farm is about 400 acres just on the western edge of the coastal plane in Virginia. The farm is long and skinny. The only entrance is to the north where the elevation is about 220 ft above sea level. The land quickly falls to an average elevation of about 60 ft. At 50 feet you will find yourself in wetlands.
At the north end of the farm there are 30 cropland acres planted with either corn or soybeans in a typical 3-1-3 rotation. That's a lot of deer food (plot?!). We have 16 or 17 different stands. Some are on food plot fields. Some are on this one 30 acre cropland field. Many more...at least three-quarters....are on trails the deer use to get from bedding areas to their feeding areas. This happens to be one of those stands.
I guess we prefer hunting (almost exclusively archery) the trails, especially in the morning because the fields are hard to get into without spooking deer.
My most memorable experience came at this stand on Halloween evening a couple years ago. The "rut" was on. About 75 yards west of this stand was ground zero. There must have been three bucks chasing about six does. At first and for about 45 minutes I couldn't see anything but flashes of brown and white. I could hear it though. Antlers rattling. Snorting and wheezing, and. a tree getting and antler beating. Eventually the parade ran thru this opening, but the opportunity was over in the blink of an eye.
There are other shooting lanes at this stand, but this particular opportunity makes a great picture!
