My recently acquired farm in Va has several large, Autumn Olive thickets on it. Probably over 90 acres total. The balance of the 220 acres is mostly open pasture, and a few small strips of woods along the creeks and a few windbreaks spread out around the property.
Deer seem to frequent these thickets to bed and use them as travel ways between food sources.
My question is this, where should I set up?
There is no good place to set up close to any of them in terms of trees for a tree stand. These Autumn Olive trees are all less than 20’ tall, and most are less than 6” DBH.
I can set up a ground blind in the actual thicket, but I’m hesitant to push into their bedding area at this time of year.
Or, I can set up along a wind break with some poplar and oak trees interspersed with pines about 350 yards from one thicket, and 270 yards from another.
There is another place I can set up to have 3 of these thickets all within 300-325 yards of a finger of woods that jets out into the open pasture between the wood line and the Olive thickets.
Any thoughts?
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Deer seem to frequent these thickets to bed and use them as travel ways between food sources.
My question is this, where should I set up?
There is no good place to set up close to any of them in terms of trees for a tree stand. These Autumn Olive trees are all less than 20’ tall, and most are less than 6” DBH.
I can set up a ground blind in the actual thicket, but I’m hesitant to push into their bedding area at this time of year.
Or, I can set up along a wind break with some poplar and oak trees interspersed with pines about 350 yards from one thicket, and 270 yards from another.
There is another place I can set up to have 3 of these thickets all within 300-325 yards of a finger of woods that jets out into the open pasture between the wood line and the Olive thickets.
Any thoughts?
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