Mattyq2402
5 year old buck +
I have a small carved out kill plot ive planted for several years 1/16 acre give or take and its just a small thin oval shape about 40 yeards long and 25 yards wide. Its accessible and sets up well for south and east related winds. I have one tree to hunt from and killed 3 good bucks in 4 years from it. My question is, i have to ability to transform it into an L shape thin plot and add some fruit to it if i drop some of the canopy, it is pretty open which i feel causes less security and it would benefit from dropping some trees and adding security cover around it. this would also allow for a north wind set up. Only issue is the general layout is east facing, it gets sun from sun up until about 3pm.
Back to the question. This is a proven loction already. Would u guys add the L so you could hunt on varying winds and add the fruit to make this a go to? It also had 6 scrapes/believe primary scrape location and buck bedding just below it in thicket. My thought is adding fruit would only add to the draw, it serves as a good staging area as well with the bedding below and benches attach to it from the south and north which are good rut cruising benches. With what Ive descibed do yall think it would be a good idea to strengthen with the addition of more food and security cover?
One last question, i have a 1 acre field 175 yards from this that has 15 fruit trees thriving and should start producing in next year to 2, varying fruits and drop times. I have 9 trees coming from blue hill and nwc this spring, would u just plant all in this plot to increase the draw there? Is it a good practice to scatter your fruit on travel routes or the hub location described above? Stick to one location? Is there anyone on here that has designed a slam dunk property with fruit that could spare some knowledge?
The attached pic is the kill plot, black line is addition. I have the equipment to clear all of this and i could plant the bench all the way oit and arround the hillside where ive hinge cut a travel corridor that eventually attaches to the 1 acre food plot 175 to 200 yards away, below pic shows that plot and some of the trees ive planted.
I know this is a lot but I want to get it right and cant afford to have someone come in and help do to tight budget.
Back to the question. This is a proven loction already. Would u guys add the L so you could hunt on varying winds and add the fruit to make this a go to? It also had 6 scrapes/believe primary scrape location and buck bedding just below it in thicket. My thought is adding fruit would only add to the draw, it serves as a good staging area as well with the bedding below and benches attach to it from the south and north which are good rut cruising benches. With what Ive descibed do yall think it would be a good idea to strengthen with the addition of more food and security cover?
One last question, i have a 1 acre field 175 yards from this that has 15 fruit trees thriving and should start producing in next year to 2, varying fruits and drop times. I have 9 trees coming from blue hill and nwc this spring, would u just plant all in this plot to increase the draw there? Is it a good practice to scatter your fruit on travel routes or the hub location described above? Stick to one location? Is there anyone on here that has designed a slam dunk property with fruit that could spare some knowledge?
The attached pic is the kill plot, black line is addition. I have the equipment to clear all of this and i could plant the bench all the way oit and arround the hillside where ive hinge cut a travel corridor that eventually attaches to the 1 acre food plot 175 to 200 yards away, below pic shows that plot and some of the trees ive planted.
I know this is a lot but I want to get it right and cant afford to have someone come in and help do to tight budget.