Magic Bucks

[Jeff]

FLAT???

[Magicman]

Yup, he just does not know. 

My property is one mile deep but the access to all of it is from the North property line.  All of my open land is along the Northern edge so any where you go a North wind will betray you.

My property is outlined in Red and is about 50% timbered.  My leased property is Yellow and is 100% timbered.  The Strawfield food plot is the brown in the center and the back food plot is about halfway of the back 40.  All bedding areas are South of the food plots.  (The white line in the NE corner is my driveway to the Cabin.)  The deer always migrate toward the North in the evening.  The simple rule is that if the wind is anywhere from the North, you do not hunt in the evening.  For "still hunting" in the mornings, you go wherever you have to and then hunt into the wind. 

[Jeff]

We did that and it was not flat!

[rusticretreater]

That's a West Virginia joke.  Every state is flat to someone in WVA. Have you ever been to WVA?  The entire state is mountains.  Mountain mamma says John Denver and he wasn't lying.  Semi drivers go around the state because it is too arduous to drive it.

[Peter Drouin]

I see hunters go far and wide looking for a deer. 
If I wanted one there's a bunch in my back yard. 
Not far at all.

[Magicman]

Have you ever been to WVA?

Oh yes, I have been from the top to the bottom, bottom to the top, and both sides, more than once.  I was with a mission building group that went to War and built a food distribution center after the flooding and to Bradshaw Mountain refurbishing a honky tonk/bar/night club into a church.

The video below details building the food distribution center.  This project won Wood-Mizer's first People's Choice Award:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlc3y3tvzE

 

[WV Sawmiller]

Rustic nailed it. Compared to here every place is flat, well at least flatter. I tell folks I have 40 acres but if I could lay it flat I'd have 80. It rises over 450' on 40 acres, Many of us here will see a deer and say "if he comes on this side of the draw I'll shoot him but if he stays on the other side I'll just let him go." He may not be but 50 yards away too.