This is a post from the old forum on the Hinge cutting which is what I started doing on this 80 in 2015
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I am at a crossroads on our habitat management plan on our 80 acres. I did a test hinging here on our 10 acres last year in areas deer already liked to bed on our property. These areas are woodland near the county road. Anybody driving down the road could see the deer laying there bedded in the open woods and since we are usually gone hunting other areas during rifle season have had several shot from the county road that I found later. 3 years ago I found 5 dead on our 10 acres... I decided since they already like to bed there I might as well make them very difficult to see so I hinged all the areas they were most vulnerable but historically love to bed.
The problem is since I have hinged these areas have become sterile of deer activity which has me very concerned. These Oklahoma ridge runner deer I have hunted all my life tend to bed in open hardwoods no matter where I have hunted them in Eastern Ok. You ease through the woods and see them get up well out in front of you and over the ridge or down into the hollow they go and seem to use terrain much more than cover for bedding.
This is a picture of how the area I hinged looks almost a year later...
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I am at a crossroads on our habitat management plan on our 80 acres. I did a test hinging here on our 10 acres last year in areas deer already liked to bed on our property. These areas are woodland near the county road. Anybody driving down the road could see the deer laying there bedded in the open woods and since we are usually gone hunting other areas during rifle season have had several shot from the county road that I found later. 3 years ago I found 5 dead on our 10 acres... I decided since they already like to bed there I might as well make them very difficult to see so I hinged all the areas they were most vulnerable but historically love to bed.
The problem is since I have hinged these areas have become sterile of deer activity which has me very concerned. These Oklahoma ridge runner deer I have hunted all my life tend to bed in open hardwoods no matter where I have hunted them in Eastern Ok. You ease through the woods and see them get up well out in front of you and over the ridge or down into the hollow they go and seem to use terrain much more than cover for bedding.
This is a picture of how the area I hinged looks almost a year later...
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