What do you mean in that AEP is geared more for shotgun season? We were in Nelsonville yesterday riding around checking out some areas to hunt. And the AEP land that we drove through looked good. I liked the looks of it better than what we seen in the Zaleski. Of course we are going back after the weather cools down for some foot work on both properties.
Which tract do you plan to hunt?
The Poston tract. Just outside of Nelsonville.
I hunted the tract on Hamley Run and Spice Lick Roads. I hunted this parcel pretty hard and saw a few deer but the tract was over run with ATVs. Their is a trail system that runs all the way through the property so it's hard to get away from them. Once the ATV activity started so did all deer activity. Like I said in my earlier post I think the neighbors were trying to run me off. Their are also two parcels a few miles east of there on Power station road but I never got a chance to hunt them. This area looks really good but I suspect It may be the same here. These lands are not patrolled by any law enforcement agency so its kind of a free for all. I've hunted Zaleski pretty hard the last three years and never had any of these problems on the state land. The local C.O. likes to patrol it. I would keep my doors locked if you hunt around Carbondale but I say that because of what the C.O. and the forest rangers have told me.
