DEER
HUNTING (Scouting In Progress 1999)
 The
Rolled Wire was a new area for me to hunt last year.
This is the scoop on the area. It is part of a 2 mile Strip of woods that is bordered on the East and South by an "L" Curve in the Leon River.
When I check out a property I begin by walking the fences to see what's up. Today, I took a right at the road and walked to the boundary fence, and followed the fence into the woods. The funnel is 600 yards of oaks and hard wood trees. I found . . . |
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3rd Wire Fence Crossing
LEFT: Bingo, 200 yards down the fenceline, this is where deer regularly jump the fence. You can see the trail they use in the center of the picture. The trail leads (below) into woods full of live oaks and white oaks.  |
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From the 3rd Wire crossing, you can see my house (red brick, in the center) and a hay storage building. They are only 200 yards to the South (right) of the crossing. But the road I live on gets very little traffic so deer can cross here without being seen. |
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LEFT: This is looking North, from the
3rd Wire. Notice the sag in the top wire.
BELOW: Further down the fence there is an incline which crests and goes gently downhill. This crest completely hides any deer traffic. It is on this hidden, lower side that, last year, I saw lots of bucks, right here, at the Rolled Wire.  |
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Rolled Wire
A second fence crossing. The first day I sat where I could see the area I saw several deer move along this fence. A few large does jumped the fence right by the roll of barbed wire, and all the bucks jumped it there. When I left that evening I paused to adjust the top wire on the fence so it had a noticeable low spot. (Hey, it's my fence, I want it lower, I can make it lower. If it was someone else's fence I wouldn't do it.) |
LEFT: The terrain then drops off steeply
for 150 yards and the woods ends abruptly. As I started down I jumped an
8-point in velvet and 3 does.
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At the bottom of the rock ledge is a 2
mile long strip of grain fields (below) that runs adjacent to the Leon
River. The river is the where the trees are in the far distance. The trees
in the field run along with a ditch in the field. There were some deer
under the trees, they are faint but you can make them out.
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Now, lets walk back up the Rock Ledge
and pick us out some places to bowhunt . . .
( Setting Up To Bowhunt at the Rolled Wire & the 3rd Fence ) |
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The
opposite side of county road, in from of my home, is bordered by a coastal
field. My side of the road is a strip of woods. The woods and the coastal
fields are 2 miles long. So my side of the road is a classic deer funnel.