ok I rent a house and it has land I can hunt on this is land that a lot of people in my family have hunted on for ever for ho about the past 10 years ( deer) it's been me only. I have success in what we call "the hay field" it is shaped like Oklahoma it's 110 yards across and 140 yards up and down on the square and if you stand looking down the pan handle on the long side it's 200 yards it's borders are at the top woods someone else property no fince out the pan handle along the back a cow field and a pond that are someone else property with a fince then at the bottom it slips down to meet a ceater rige and a fence witch the property is owner by my land lord (so the field is on a hill at bottom where the fince runs it meets a hill as to why we call this the holler)
The deer eather come in at the bottom of the field (to my right from where I stand ) or from the pan handle (top left from where I stand ) that's on my side of the fince they also cross on the other man's property at the pond or just behind it ( I can not shoot them over there) so I put out salt blocks to get them to cross on my side of the fince more often
The deer are SO predictable I 0 my guns where they come out the deer I shot last year stopped stood broad side RIGHT at the spot I had my target set up I been shooting for practice all summer
So for the most part no one duse any thing with this field but cut hay 1 or 2x a year or just let it sit and no hay gets cut depending on what ever the people that own the land decided to do
So here is the problem this year they are renting all the land including that hay field to a guy that is using it for his cattle he put in an electric fince at the top of the field running along the top of the field along the tree line there has never been a fince there before and his cattle now go in the field so 1. now the cattle are eating up my salt blocks and 2. I think this is going to change where the deer are going to cross ie... over on the land I can not shoot them I really can not say much as it is not my land so I have to change my thinking on how I get the deer on land I can shoot them
So what ideas do you guys have
I will put up some photos so you have an idea what this field looks like
The deer eather come in at the bottom of the field (to my right from where I stand ) or from the pan handle (top left from where I stand ) that's on my side of the fince they also cross on the other man's property at the pond or just behind it ( I can not shoot them over there) so I put out salt blocks to get them to cross on my side of the fince more often
The deer are SO predictable I 0 my guns where they come out the deer I shot last year stopped stood broad side RIGHT at the spot I had my target set up I been shooting for practice all summer
So for the most part no one duse any thing with this field but cut hay 1 or 2x a year or just let it sit and no hay gets cut depending on what ever the people that own the land decided to do
So here is the problem this year they are renting all the land including that hay field to a guy that is using it for his cattle he put in an electric fince at the top of the field running along the top of the field along the tree line there has never been a fince there before and his cattle now go in the field so 1. now the cattle are eating up my salt blocks and 2. I think this is going to change where the deer are going to cross ie... over on the land I can not shoot them I really can not say much as it is not my land so I have to change my thinking on how I get the deer on land I can shoot them
So what ideas do you guys have
I will put up some photos so you have an idea what this field looks like