On those narrow openings, do you get many opportunities at shots? Do the deer often cross the opening before you get a chance to size it up and get a shot? Just curious as I've just set up 2 stands on long narrow openings.
Yes I do get shots, and yes sometimes they just cross no chance. I do find they like to walk them and usually they stop and take a look up or down the lanes when crossing. Grunt to stop them to look at. Always carry binoculars to check antlers. A lot of my setups are like wagon wheel so stop them in the next shooting lane. I've been making some of my shooting lanes mowable (8' bush hog) so I don't have as much cutting and trimming to do every year. They grow plants deer eat like blackberries. Bush hog makes it easier for the old man.
My opening is a recently cleared timber opening, so too many stumps for bushogging or even trying to plant. Might try some throw and grow.
That was logged 7 years ago and burned last spring. I kept all my logging roads to use for travel, boundaries, firebreaks and turkeys like to walk them. I've made a bunch of more lanes just by clearing and cutting stumps flush with the ground for bush hog to go over. That was a 5' wide shooting lane that I just made wider and mowable. Good luck. Hope you kill a big one.
Good luck. I got rained out this morning and afternoon.
Hunt in the weather if you can. When I was years younger, I've killed some decent bucks in rainy weather.
Killed my biggest buck in the rain in 2020. But early season I'm not sitting out in the rain getting soaked and getting all my equipment wet.
I'm not sitting in the rain period. Just not that mad at them like I used to be.
