The best funnel I've ever seen...

[Casey]

and I don't get to hunt it. Every once in a while I'll take a trip down the road and come across a farm that has produced some big bucks. This one place has two hills, one on the right and the left. The deer will walk through the funnel to walk to the back of the corn and bean fields, then they pan out to eat. Early morning I have drove over to the area and have seen 15 deer in spirts walk through back to the thickets, they cross a gravel road and get to the thickets.

Whats the best funnel you ever got to hunt or still hunt. I feel funnels are the best way to kill a mature buck! Find his trails and his funnels and you'll be a successful mature buck hunter!!!

[Randy]

I watched this one (the one on the far right) from a distance in July and figured out where he was living. It was a perfect funnel from a corner of a cornfield, to a narrow ridgeline woods, down to a clover foodplot along the bottom of the woods.

I got it the second day of the Archery season...

[Ethan Givan]

Im hunting a farm this year that has big chunk of timber that has a creek running through it with corn fields on both sides. The woods shrink narrower as you follow the creek to the South. Then the creek makes a hard bend and really pinches down with the woods edge. The deer move from the big timber towards the fields and skirt the edge of the creek which pushes them in a strip of woods about 60 yards wide on the East side of the creek. My stand is going to be in this strip about 25 yards in from the field. A West wind should blow me away from the deer.

[Goinghuntin]

I've yet to find a good funnel that I can hunt. I can get permission to hunt turkey almost anywhere around here but when it comes to deer...it's a little tougher :bang:

Nathan

[wtnhunt]

Have a wooded gully that runs from an unbothered 30 acre hardwoods(sanctuary of sorts) to a preferred crossing at the river, that used to be a very well traveled funnel at the point where it meets the woods along the river. The woods narrow on our side of the river to just 50-60 yards wide, we have had a stand on a little knoll where that intersection is at for probably 10-12 years. Action there used to be great especially around the rut, but have had too much pressure from people hunting bordering farms the past few years.

[redkneck]

I've hunted a few around pastures mostly over the years. Funnels down here are about nonexistent in a lot of places as most land is planted for timber in this part of the state.

[rhine16]

Funnels down here are about nonexistent in a lot of places as most land is planted for timber in this part of the state.

Ditto... I've hardly ever found a true funnel.

[Stinger-Hunter]

Funnels are great because you can make your way to and from them without disturbing the deer when they are eating or bedding. Just pick the right time and head on over.

I've seen a few - mostly by accident. The ones I thought I had them dead to right - they came from another direction. LOL

I set up too close to one a few years ago and they were too close for me to draw my bow (can you believe that one) Geez! I could smell them and they were looking right at me in my blind. They just walked on by.

[Rhino]

I've hunted a few around pastures mostly over the years. Funnels down here are about nonexistent in a lot of places as most land is planted for timber in this part of the state.

Ditto... I've hardly ever found a true funnel.

Really??? DANG!!! Even hunting big woods like y'all here is MS I have some favorite funnels. Maybe you don't have the steep ridges, saddles, and ravines like I have in my neck of the woods.

There's 2 funnels that come to mind that are neck and neck with being my all time favorites.

The 1st one is in southern Iowa on private land that's now under lease to an outfitter. It is a woodlot connecting to a larger wood lot and CRP area to the south. A gravel road & river are on the northern end. To the west is a cattle pasture. To the east is crop land, usually corn. A deep creek went along the eastern side of the woodlot and turned toward the center right at a pinch point where the woodlot trippled in width. Had some memorable hunts there. One in particular was a hunt when I didn't draw a tag & my buddy did. 1st morning was awesome even though I was filming his hunt. Can't remember how many bucks & deer we saw but my buddy put an arrow into a 150 class 10 point at 10:10. It was the 14th chase that came through us that morning. Unfortunately he made a poor shot and we never found his buck.

The 2nd is in Kansas and it's mainly a hub within a funnel where narrow wood lines joined a pinch point in a large wooded area. Also a big bottom area to the east joined the main north/south trending creek bottom there. I killed my B&C typical right there back in Nov. 2004. In 2006 I put a best friend of mine in there that had never killed a net P&Y buck. He choked on a big B&C class typical 10 point. He saw him 2 more times too far and I got a look at him once at a distance. Last year I choked on a 160 class buck there. That spot's overdue for another wall hanger. I'll sure hang a stand there again this November and hope I got the chokes out of my system.

[redkneck]

Maybe you don't have the steep ridges, saddles, and ravines like I have in my neck of the woods.

You are correct sir. Mostly the pines slowly blend into hardwoods, not a lot of steep ridges over here like at the river where you hunt. There are funnels, no doubt, but not like on the cute maps folks like to draw out on TV

[rhine16]

Really??? DANG!!! Even hunting big woods like y'all here is MS I have some favorite funnels. Maybe you don't have the steep ridges, saddles, and ravines like I have in my neck of the woods.

There's this one hollow that I consider to be a funnel... Problem is, It's 150 yards wide and when the acorns are falling, it's hit or miss with a bow.

[sskybnd]

I've hunted a few around pastures mostly over the years. Funnels down here are about nonexistent in a lot of places as most land is planted for timber in this part of the state.

same here, but knowing deer like edges, ive found a few that seem to run between a 2 to 3 year clear cut and some standing timber, or like when i killed my 8 last year he was walking the edge of a pine flat and a hard wood bottom.

[redkneck]

same here, but knowing deer like edges, ive found a few that seem to run between a 2 to 3 year clear cut and some standing timber, or like when i killed my 8 last year he was walking the edge of a pine flat and a hard wood bottom.

Man the lease we got now don't even have timberlines, I wish the owner would go in and clearcut a few 40's.

[Rhino]

There are funnels, no doubt, but not like on the cute maps folks like to draw out on TV

We don't really have those either on our cute camp maps. Our club is 97% wooded and the other 3% is in food plots. We do have some neat edges and corners inside the timber like sskybnd mentioned. I have a few of my favorite stands on edges like those that also just happen to be located on topography type funnels. Imagine that!

[Nickel]

The best funnel I ever hunted was a ridge that had 100 foot strait down drop to the right and about 100 yards to the left was a vertical 50 foot rock wall. Those deer were coming out of a swamp on one end of the ridge and going to a crop field a quarter mile away.