JimHewitt
08-11-2001, 09:18 PM
Gonna post this at deer and waterfowl boards...hits both!
I just had a chance to walk around today at the place where I had been offered an opportunity to waterfowl hunt and if I wanted, deer hunt in the late muzzleloader season.
It's a place that no one else hunts deer, bow, regular gun season, or muzzleloader. Small lakes with very narrow travel lanes between. Oak bottoms (white oaks) between alfalfa fields and bean fields. All the land is tucked back in the middle of two sections of land with no visibility to any road whatsoever. Deer trails that have some very, ,very big tracks in them. The guy who farms the land says that after about the regular deer season is over, the deer are regular visitors to the alfalfa fields, early and late, and sometimes all day.
It's about 30 miles from home, still in farm-land country but not the completely flat country we have here in the Red River Valley.
I'm going to be doing a lot more scouting while duck and goose hunting on the land this fall. The best-looking of the small lakes as far as waterfowl is concerned has quite a few places where the alfalfa comes right up to within 10 yards of the water so that I can set field goose decoys behind me and floater geese and ducks out on the lake that seems to be only about 4-5 deep, with a lot of feed.
Later in the season, when the shallow pond is frozen, there is a place on the deeper lake where an island about 10 yards by 20 yards sits right in a 100 yard cut between two larger portions of the lake. Divers should work out pretty good there, as well as some geese and late mallards.
I just had a chance to walk around today at the place where I had been offered an opportunity to waterfowl hunt and if I wanted, deer hunt in the late muzzleloader season.
It's a place that no one else hunts deer, bow, regular gun season, or muzzleloader. Small lakes with very narrow travel lanes between. Oak bottoms (white oaks) between alfalfa fields and bean fields. All the land is tucked back in the middle of two sections of land with no visibility to any road whatsoever. Deer trails that have some very, ,very big tracks in them. The guy who farms the land says that after about the regular deer season is over, the deer are regular visitors to the alfalfa fields, early and late, and sometimes all day.
It's about 30 miles from home, still in farm-land country but not the completely flat country we have here in the Red River Valley.
I'm going to be doing a lot more scouting while duck and goose hunting on the land this fall. The best-looking of the small lakes as far as waterfowl is concerned has quite a few places where the alfalfa comes right up to within 10 yards of the water so that I can set field goose decoys behind me and floater geese and ducks out on the lake that seems to be only about 4-5 deep, with a lot of feed.
Later in the season, when the shallow pond is frozen, there is a place on the deeper lake where an island about 10 yards by 20 yards sits right in a 100 yard cut between two larger portions of the lake. Divers should work out pretty good there, as well as some geese and late mallards.