View attachment 1220 I was talking to Brooks and your land tour came up. Sounds like it was a good one.
Anyway, he asked what exactly I meant when I commented about the potential food plot right behind the neighbor's house. In a nutshell, his interpretation of what I was trying to suggest was nuts on:
Use the neighbors for 0 impact access (walk their NE side in on any N or E winds, walk their SW side on S or W winds, both blowing the scent into their property...Shown as thin red line)
Put the food plot in that little opening to the NW of their property line (shown in light green)
Put a screen along their property line (shown in dark green)
On the NW end of that new food plot, starting about 20 yards back in the woods, run a blockade almost all the way to the swamp (stop it with 10ish yards of dry land left...Shown as black line).
Edge feather/blockage/screen most of 2 sides of the plot, forcing deer to enter mainly by your 2 stands and giving safer winds.
Now, both stands are covering both feeding on the plot and the pinch between the plot and the end of the blockade, to catch cruising bucks that don't want to enter the plot
At the same time, you have a high impact, but deadly all day type sit on the other end of the blockade. After all, every deer cruising your property will either go through by your food plot or at the other end of your funnel. I'd just suggest that you never hunt that deep stand more than twice a season and wouldn't ever hunt it at all unless you just can't get it done from a lower impact stand. When "forced" to hunt it, only do so on prime weather days, go in well before first light and sit until you kill or after dark.
Now, here's where working off of a crappy (no offense) quality photo fails. I can't tell if deer are cutting between the small and big swamp. That's why I have 2 stands there. If they are doing that a lot, run the blockade across the little swamp and stop it where the deepest red dot is and put a stand there instead of where the first dot is.
As always with such limited info, take all that w a grain of salt, but Brooks made it sound like the conditions would make it work. If it did, WOW, that'd be my favorite layout on the place that I can see...Talk about low impact (for the plot stands), high odds. That's pretty much the definition of that.
