All night long

 

Welcome to AT from northern Illinois. I would scout it first before I decided.

 

I'd hunt it where I could set a stand downwind of a heavy deer travel route.

 

Nothing beats 'boots on the ground' scouting and observation stands that can be moved and honed in on current action. Trail cams give you snap-shots and a basic inventory, but often you see bucks cruizing through at night and never see them in daylight. Take some midday hikes while carrying your bow in case of an unexpected encounter, then note fresh sign such as trails, rubs, scrapes and sightings with your OnX for later application. If it is public, you will likely need to be 'mobile' by setting up each hunt rather than putting up a stand to leave in place. Or learn how to hunt effectively from the ground and just carry in a lightweight stool.

 

Nothing beats 'boots on the ground' scouting and observation stands that can be moved and honed in on current action. Trail cams give you snap-shots and a basic inventory, but often you see bucks cruizing through at night and never see them in daylight. Take some midday hikes while carrying your bow in case of an unexpected encounter, then note fresh sign such as trails, rubs, scrapes and sightings with your OnX for later application. If it is public, you will likely need to be 'mobile' by setting up each hunt rather than putting up a stand to leave in place. Or learn how to hunt effectively from the ground and just carry in a lightweight stool.

Nothing beats 'boots on the ground' scouting and observation stands that can be moved and honed in on current action. Trail cams give you snap-shots and a basic inventory, but often you see bucks cruizing through at night and never see them in daylight. Take some midday hikes while carrying your bow in case of an unexpected encounter, then note fresh sign such as trails, rubs, scrapes and sightings with your OnX for later application. If it is public, you will likely need to be 'mobile' by setting up each hunt rather than putting up a stand to leave in place. Or learn how to hunt effectively from the ground and just carry in a lightweight stool.

I'd hunt it where I could set a stand downwind of a heavy deer travel route.

It is public and I definitely plan on scouting i was just wondering 🤔 where you guys whold start more less what is your take on what might be the hot spots

 

Deer need three things...food, water and security. You want to stay out of their bedding areas as much as possible, so you don't blow up the area. That leaves food and water, plus their travel routes to and from those places that will change throughout the year. Deer are on their feet more than most hunters think during daylight hours, but only in places they feel really safe and are not being contaminated by human scent or presence.

Now add in procreation, which happens in during fall hunting seasons and shifts their focus from the basics of life to their rising hormones. A solid strategy is to figure out the patterns of the local doe population and how the area bucks scent check them. You can use techniques like a mock scrape or natural scrape line to monitor with a trail cam to narrow down locations with the most 'traffic'.

 

Thanks 😊

 

which side of the red line would you be hunting?
I am an edge hunter, so where ever there is an opening I am setting up down wind with in 20 yards of it.
Or half way down a ridge,

 

Right side of the road

 

I like edges also I try scout the corner first ans if there's water near by I try hit that edge just wanted to know how everyone else whould approach it

 

What's the prevailing wind conditions like?

Also, I think you need to charge your phone!

 

East NE

 

Ya I keep a cuple battery packs with me while in the fild

 

For mean sign has it place but I don't use cameras ever anymore. The best odds I have learned off of are hunting all the different terrain features on a new spot I will throw a morning and a night sit at it not in order and then keep bouncing around the thicks where I guess is the bedding areas till time confirms that.
from there I be hunting along those creek lines and any ditch transition towards the field from a hardwood thick it edge.
100 PERCENT ONE STICK MOBLIE at all times for me helps speed up maps are learn an area fast.

 

Thanks for the advice I got a saddle and use srt method I hang paracord presets as I scout and find sign