how should i hunt fields and woods

[hunter109]

i hunt the edge of the field and i hunt trials in the woods is that right or should i switch it up

[Shaun_300]

Re: how should i hunt fields and woods

It sounds pretty good to me! If you can get near a runway or a place where they eat, chances of seeing a deer are pretty darn good!

[Big_Bubbles]

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dont get to close to there trails though, sounds pretty good

[hunter109]

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i will stay back about 20 to 40 yards so if they come out on the trail i will have a shot

[Guest BigAl1781]

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thats basicly how im set up but im back off the trail around 40 or 50 yds,,and a field/clearcut is like 100yds from me

[6sixpoint_nobrows]

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sounds good to me, sound to be promising spots, just try not to be too close to the trail, thats the only advice i can think of....good luck!

[dg]

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It depends on what part you are hunting. Deer don't just come out in the open and graze in all areas of the country. In West Va, you can almost set your watch and sit by a field. If you do that in many places down south, you'll be sitting by yourself. (there are exceptions and that statement is not 100% of the time)

[hunter109]

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i live in ohio and the deer come out in the feilds and then they come back in the feilds in the after noon.

[wtnhunt]

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I generally hunt the woods in the mornings and fields in the afternoons.

[Chrud]

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That sounds OK. Don't get too close to trails.

[Guest BigAl1781]

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after 6pm they're in the field on my land almost like clock work

[BowtechTurkeyHunter]

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Sounds good to me Gl this season.

[hunter109]

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i have about four or five fields that i can hunt and get deer out of all most every year

[Missed160]

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I like it in the woods more then watching the field, but where in the woods can make a difference. If yours woods bottle neck between to fields, or where the woods have an inside corner of the field, these areas funnel deer to you a lot more. Those are the spots to be..

[FSU_Seminole]

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i have about four or five fields that i can hunt and get deer out of all most every year

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Hunter welcome to the forum.

If I were you hunting those fields, I'd hunt the one where its the most secluded & or the smallest. Big bucks love going into small out of the way fields to eat crops. Set your stand up overlooking an "inside" corner of the field. That's where deer tend to enter.

In a couple of weeks I'll be planting a food plot about 200 yards from a swamp creek bottom. My plot will be next to an inside corner where they can see into the field before entering. Its a pretty killer set up.

When the rut starts up there you should hunt the one where you see the most does. Good luck!!!!

[ladydiehard]

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I've been hunting about 30 yards off the edge of the neighbors field which is planted just for the deer with half corn, half something else. Its a secluded field inbetween a cedar swamp and hardwoods including a hardwood ridge where they like to bed down. Theres a ravine they like to travel through when entering or exiting the field and I'm set up near the entrance to this ravine.

I've been seeing alot of deer coming from the swamp to the field and from the ridge to the field both morning and evening. All of them have come within shotgun range, several very close to my bow range and two within bow range. But I blew it.

Anyway...point is... I have another stand back in the woods farther but I haven't used it yet due to the activity near the field.

[hunter109]

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i went out and took my friend it was the first time deer hunting we sat on the edage then we walked the feilds wee seen around 30 to 40 deer in two days