4-6, and my stand needed to be a ground blind set up in the lower corner of the property next to my woodlot - but not in it - for the best chance at success. In the end, I found the most concentrated buck activity on my land usually took place the days of Nov. Hence, it took me a few years of hunting, running trail cameras, keeping a diary and doing plenty of scouting to determine when the best days of the year were to kill a deer on the property. The challenge with hunting this property is that it’s bordered by a road on one side and usually an open field on the other. One of the reasons for the 8-acre parcel was for privacy the other was so I’d always have a few acres to bowhunt (She does love me!).
To combat this, 12 years ago, my wife Allison and I purchased a house with a few acres of woods adjacent to it. As a result, I need more than my 10 fingers to count the number of hunting properties I’ve lost access to over the years as the region’s population has grown. I live in southeastern Pennsylvania, where open space and farmlands vanish at an alarming rate as properties are sold off for housing developments and commercial real estate projects.
