Mightymouse

Hey MM, I was just finished reading your article about "getting your stands spot on". I enjoyed it. I have buddies that ask my advice for a stand location for a buck. After listing all the "no-brainers", I always preach one that has made me most successful. Number one, get off the bait piles, when I hunted bait I always would see a buck 40-60 yards out, but never come in tight, until a walked around and figured it out. Heres what I found, and do now.

If you walk approximately 40-100 yards downwind of a food source on a well used deer trail, you will find a couple of slightly used trails intersecting the well used trail. I traversed 360 degress, and found the more slightly used trails intersecting a well used one. I set up a stand about 20 yards even further downwind at every intersection and hunted the wind directions. I now tag out. Young bucks still come straight in but the older ones are on those trails. I now swear by this tactic, and don't hunt anywhere else.

Mike, thank you for taking the time to read them. I'm glad you are enjoying them so far. I enjoy putting them together and its always good to hear that others are enjoying the effort.

I wasn't able to do as much shed hunting as I had planned this year (in part because of my growing family) and was a bit short on topics sometimes. I think February and March were a bit rough but hopefully you still find them enjoyable. My entry last week was basiclly the start of the season for me so hopefully from now through at least the end of hunting season I will have plenty of content to keep things fresh and interesting.

As for the habitat stuff I/we are pretty much learning as we go. I'll keep posting our projects and their results, good or bad, so hopefully you'll find some useful information along the way. If nothing else let us show you what not to do!!

thanks again for reading!! Aaron

Hey MightyMouse, I have just started reading your blogs and started from the begining. I am a couple of weeks into it and can not wait to read the rest. I love how it is shaping up so far. I have no intentions to start my own blog due to the fact that just because it sounds good in my head does not mean it will come out comprehendable on the screen,lol. But I now have 40 acres that I live on and will be doing some habitat improvement to it and it seems that your blog will be part of my guidelines/goals on a much smaller scale. Thank you for putting in the time to do this and congrats on the new hunting partner. Mike