Hunting whitetail deer in dense forest takes special consideration. One gets no long range shots through the dense trees, and deer have keen eyes and noses and can detect the slightest movement or scent when youre close. What to do? What to do? After scouting for weeks, I found this location in a region of hardwood forest with steep topography. Half a mile away is a valley with a river and feral apple trees where I know deer commonly feed. A mile south is a wild meadow where they go to graze. The deer hide in this region of forest. There are steep hills and gulches, though the forest is so dense visibility is poor. On a ridge overlooking a gully at about about a 35 degree angle, I found this site. It was a place where an old maple fell over right at the overlook. It made natural cover, and since its above the gully where I expect the deer to pass, I should remain unseen as deer rarely look up. But the site needed to be improved to cover my scent and any telltales of my presence. An hours work with hatchet improved the site. I used sackcloth to conceal the blind from the west and south. The tangle of roots breaks up my outline overlooking the gully. To the east and north I laid a support of fast growing willow lined with a few young spruces. I lined the perimeter with spruce boughs to create a rich evergreen scent to cover my own. From the gully, shown in the last two photos, it is totally invisible and the eye is drawn to the black entrance of the little cave created when the maple fell over, detracting from the slight silhouette I may offer against the sky. Above and behind the raised earth, I will be invisible. All is ready.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:47:22 +0000
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