Big Bucks Where No One Can Hunt Them but You
Weird Places to Find Trophy Bucks Where No One Can
Hunt
 Editor’s
Note: Thousands of acres of land throughout the country
home trophy bucks. Often the landowners don't hunt these
properties. But they also may not allow anyone else
to because they've had bad experiences with hunters
in the past or can find no benefits in letting someone
hunt their lands. To have a trophy, big-buck hotspot
no one else but you can hunt, solve a landowner's problem
before you ask permission to hunt. Here are a few ways
to hunt lands no one else can hunt by solving the landowner’s
problems first.
Everyone knows you don't find deer in abandoned strip
mines. Devoid of cover, these regions have little or
no natural food to draw deer to them. No one hunts these
strip mines because everyone knows no deer live on them.
However, during hunting season, oftentimes you'll find
briar patches and brush in the valleys of steep-sloped,
abandoned mining areas but probably little food. But
a big buck may hold in a sparse-covered place like this
during daylight hours to dodge hunter pressure. To take
a buck out of these regions, let one man walk through
the valley slowly and quietly while the other hunter
stands at the other end of the valley and watches for
the buck to come slipping out. Also remember that strip
miners can't cut the timber next to a flowing stream
or cemeteries on the land they strip. In many rural
areas, you'll find small family cemeteries out in the
middle of either a strip-mined area or a clear-cut region.
These old abandoned cemeteries only may cover less than
1/2-acre but may contain large oak trees. The deer have
learned that during the winter they can move into the
cemeteries,
feed on the acorns under the oaks that have grown up
among the tombstones and never have hunters harass them.
Few, if any, hunters will hang a tree stand in the middle
of a 1/2-acre cemetery surrounded by a 100-acre clearcut
or strip mine. However, the sportsmen who scout these
places often will find that big bucks bed and feed among
the tombs and no one ever hunts them there. Also, you'll
usually find gaining permission to hunt an abandoned
strip mine or a large clearcut not very difficult. Generally
you can hunt the many weird places and small plots where
big bucks hold by simply asking permission. If you discover
what problems a landowner has and solve his problems
for him, you can ask him if you can hunt his prime,
posted, private lands. When you provide a service to
him, many times he will extend the hand of friendship
to you, which may include the opportunity to hunt his
lands. Then you can bag the big bucks no one else can
hunt.
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