Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire A place I have not hunted in 3 yrs. Little WMA spot now, was USFS Rec area long ago.

More than going to it for a 2 or 3 hr check the block look around and decide to hunt it or not based on sign seen.

About 90 acres.
Hour glass shaped with about 45 acres on northern part.
About 40 acres southern part
Both ridges .
Bottoms between the 2, some open hardwoods.
Feeder creek into Cumberland
Creek got what appears to Bubba 8 to 12 foot tall impenetrable brush.
Looks are deceiving plenty of ways to get thru it to the waist of the hour glass area.
A corridor about 200 250 yds wide connecting North and south.
Lotta hard used trails crossing the feeder creek at the waist.
Big Ole cattle pasture dead east surrounded by oak ridges that feed into it the waist.


North Port is everyone's easy access fantasy.
East and South East of property is shoot house corn pile private properties wooded.
West of it is dried up back water crappie fishing area right off the Cumberland.
Giant dried up hard mud mostly now.


Good sign buck wise and doe wise.
Scrapes , rubs, beds on the southern slope of the north ridge.

Supposed to rain .
Should wash the woods good.
Bucks should be scent checking in the morning.

Kinda torn between the place I been hunting and this one tomorrow morning.
Hunted the other place 4 days.
Still need to sit their.

But I gotta devote one morning sit here.
And with the rain coming in it might be the time to sit here in the morning because of bucks wanting to scent check and travel after the rain.
Might be the best conditions to hunt it tomorrow
The other place I can hit Saturday.
Neither spots are getting much hunting pressure now anyways.

Seen 2 does and a fawn and a I don't know what it was in the brush other than a deers back and lower neck line.
Got in their about 715 this morning in daylight to see sign on way in.
Stayed till 1230.
Deer sighting were done by 1030.
1st sightings were seen around 0830.
Everything going south.

Took a shot at a small knot on a tree about 75yds out up on northern ridge on the way out to the truck

Stool and mono pod, both elbows on both knees.
Probably about 3/8ths" off to right of POA.
GTG....
Gotta boresnake barrel x 3 now.
#confidenceinwpn....


And Happy Thanksgiving to the solid dudes on here!!!


D bags in general, Liberal Socialist Democrat scumball sockpuppeteers, simmering butthurt sockpuppet bytches, basically puzzy mutha fuuuka,s all...
Just the lump sum of schitbyrds in general.

I hope a turkey bone punctures your esophagus and you suffer before surgery.....
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Good looking place....

Happy thanksgiving!

Good luck Rene. Hope you find a big Buck.
I hunted most of the morning. Saw a yearling 4 point and probably a 2.5 year old 6 point and a couple of does. The rut has not started here yet.
Watching football now.
Supposed to be a lot colder here tomorrow. I’ll try again in the AM.

Glad you're out having fun.

Did you get some turkey Vienna sausages for you and the mutts to celebrate the day?

Good looking hardwoods and as usual you paint a great picture with the way you describe your areas. I’m always interested in the way other parts of the country hunt based upon topography, vegetation, etc. It’s also interesting to me that 90 acres is a productive and huntable parcel. It makes sense however considering the acorn mast, cover…virtually everything they need is contained within the small parcels of good habitat. Our hunting areas are VAST tracts of wilderness…hundreds of thousands….millions of acres of hunting ground but that means that they are spread out and not nearly as easy to hunt. Hunting out here is a boots and backpack affair and one must be in reasonable shape to enjoy hunting it. As I get older I think sitting on a stand sounds good but I know me and after 15 minutes I’d be fidgeting to get moving. 😁

Good luck with your bachelor hunting week and I’m looking forward to reading more of your success.

Happy Thanksgiving to you Tennessee mafia Dons.

Man, that looks prime! Good plan, and good luck to you.

Thats a good looking spot! I love hunting those low lying swampy areas. Find a creek crossing and set up early.

You've got some nice spots renegade, color me envious.

LOL. He’s probably on his way to Golden Corral. 😜

I was hunting blacktails on timberland in SW Washington years back. This is DENSE rainforest jungle where you can be standing in the middle of a herd of running elk and barely get a glimpse even though they’re literally feet away. I would move quietly and get setup in the center of the section we’re hunting while the others slowly moved through the area working downhill. It would push the deer ahead of them and maybe the cutoff guy would tag it. It worked really good and we killed some big blacktails that way. One morning I set myself up on the edge of a boggy opening in the rainforest where I had a decent 50 yard clearing hoping to spot a buck there. I heard the brush moving and twigs breaking but I couldn’t see the animal making the noise. After several minutes I caught the glimpse of an antler barely off the ground but moving. It turned out to be a nice 4x4 BT on its knees crawling through the knee high grass looking back over its shoulder at my buddies who were slowly working forward. They kicked that old buck up but he was smart enough to stay low and invisible. Smart, sneaky and adaptable is how the strong survive.

thanksgiving buck would be sweet

good luck!

Believe me dude.
Hunting educated WTD here in TN is far from easy.
If it was then illegal baiting wouldn't be so rampant here as the only way many here know how to "hunt" on their private lands and even public land when they can get away with it.
Not all...
But a huge % here bait the schitt out of places.
It's the only thing many know.
Family tradition....
Many of us here in the state know people that do it.


Grew up in Maine hunting WTD in the " T" ,s
T34MD
T32MD
Sunkahaze stream system also.
4 x4 mile blocks of unincorporated townships.
Or similar with a waterway boundary on some side of it.
Paper and Pulp companies agreement with state for access.

4 to 6 deer per Sq mile density in wilderness area,s
Less after a bad winter in the deer yards and yotes.

You got AG and apple orchard area,s thru out Maine also that people hunt.
Mostly in southern Maine, also in Central maine too.

Neat looking spot Ren.

Im in the gen area just south of the creek of the letters S I N and B R A in the pic.
You can kinda figure it out from the pics.
85 90 yd shot to west along creek then a dog leg and about a 75 yd shot to cow field boundary.
Private land cattle field east and surrounding woods of that.
Private baited land to the field South East.
They think that southern half is their private sanctuary that holds deer for them to shoot off their baited field.
Had that discussion with two of them d bags long ago when they seen me walking in the wood line about 100 yds.
It didn't work out very well for em intimidation wise.
Told em call the warden.
You say your story and explain your tripod feeder and I will explain my story that I'm hunting public land.
They left and went back to their big Ole shoot house.

Probably about half those woods south of the creek are the WMA.
If you shoot a deer real far down their you are fuuked getting it back up to the main road.
Lots of rolling terrain ridge and valley wise thru out the whole area.
75% of that crappie fishing area is dry mud flat right now.
Drought and low pool on the Cumberland.

About 350 400 yd width of flat between the north and south parcels.

Good-sized funnel/ choke point from North and south.
And all the wooded ridges along the cattle field to the east run into moccasin branch.

Raining tonight .
Bucks should be scent checking trails and scrapes tomorrow.
Be quiet getting in their in the morning also with wet leaves on yhe ground.

Sounds like a pretty good spot to pick one off the high ground between the field edge and thick stuff by the water. Good luck tomorrow.

Box blind N of power line on private??

Not sure, public may not run that far south.

Probably a Cornslinger9000R, pedestal mount- hi flo

I have seen the boundary in the woods and the powerl8ne just west on the pic.
Baiters lands dint hold schit for deer .
Why they all think the land is their private sanctuary for their deer.
Their is zero public access except for the north one by the main road.

The field above it to the NNE is a baited from hell mofo.
That the one I had my little encounter to the west of it inside the woodline long ago when I was learning the place.

I don't know how old the imagery is.

None of em are AG fields either.
But bushogged
With shoot houses and feeders.
I guess Scotty just beams down deer for em to shoot.





Shades of Landman from Tndeer and all his shoot houses bordering cross creeks NWF and all the bucks he shot off his fields.
Cause we all know bucks just magically appeared in fields for him to shoot and huge bucks are just magically drawn to shoot houses on private land just across the boundary and not the does fed corn for months on end and then along comes the pre rut and rut.
And Landman would have never had used bait to draw deer of a NWF....

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