4wanderingeyes
5 year old buck +
I have 10 acres that I have saved for a deer sanctuary on my land. I have either hunted the land exclusively, or owned the land since 2001, and I have only been into that 10 acre section 2 times. Once to track a deer, and the other to hunt it way back in 01 or 02. Other then catching the neighbor in it 1 time, I think it hasn’t had a human foot step in it since 01 other then those few times. It is mostly a bog with some smaller high spots of an acre or so spread within it. It is also the thickest part of my land. I have a couple 1 acre food plots on the outside edge of it, and I hunt the other ends of the food plots.
My question is, am I crazy not to hunt the sanctuary at all? Should I at least put a stand up in it and try it 1 day a year? Or just stay out of it like I have been doing. I know the deer bed down in there once they get shot at a few times. When I was in there last was 3 years ago, tracking a deer. I found a nice 1-2 acre high spot filled with about 20 mature oaks, and rather thick with thickets in the understory. I would love to sit in there and hunt, if I was a deer, that is where I would be. But when I bought the land, I then dedicated it to solely a sanctuary, and I feel like if I broke that agreement with myself, I would end up hunting it a lot more.
For those that have a sanctuary, do you ever hunt it? Would you in my case to try it? Or just stay out of it and leave it for the deer to have a safe place?
My question is, am I crazy not to hunt the sanctuary at all? Should I at least put a stand up in it and try it 1 day a year? Or just stay out of it like I have been doing. I know the deer bed down in there once they get shot at a few times. When I was in there last was 3 years ago, tracking a deer. I found a nice 1-2 acre high spot filled with about 20 mature oaks, and rather thick with thickets in the understory. I would love to sit in there and hunt, if I was a deer, that is where I would be. But when I bought the land, I then dedicated it to solely a sanctuary, and I feel like if I broke that agreement with myself, I would end up hunting it a lot more.
For those that have a sanctuary, do you ever hunt it? Would you in my case to try it? Or just stay out of it and leave it for the deer to have a safe place?