DEER HUNTING (Scouting In Progress 1999)
  1. Scouting the Rolled Wire
  2. Setting Up To Bowhunt at the Rolled Wire & the 3rd Fence
  3. Get A Map of your hunting place.
  4. Scouting With Your Map (we scout the Rolled Wire)

 
So where is the Rolled Wire on a Terraserver map?
 
If you have been following this series you know that this is the Rolled Wire area where I bowhunt whitetail deer.

 
Below is the close up map of my 27 acre place. You can see my home and some ranch out buildings (gray). When I downloaded the map, just for grins I tried to colorize it in Photoshop. Heck, it came right up in, appropriately enough, in cedar green. 
North is dead center and straight up. The predominant wind direction is South South West.

Here is how this small place fits in the big picture. I marked the Rolled Wire, my home (RH Home) and made blue lines for the fences that are our boundaries. 
A little over an inch from the top right corner of the map you see a winding dark green line that squiggles down and takes a left and disappears low on the left side of the map. That is the Leon River and it is the Eastern and Southern border of most of the 1,000 acre property we lease to bowhunt.

The prevailing wind direction is the angle from Rick's River Stand to Alex. The solid color area next to the river is farm crops: mainly winter wheat, oats and milo, depending on the season.
The white line is the cloche road that dead ends on the ranch we lease for hunting (at Camp). The left side of the road is mostly coastal fields for cattle grazing. The right side (dark green) is woods. This particular strip of thick woods is 2 miles long and is broken up: on the North by a recently retired Pig Farm which is a 200 acre open area, and on the South by the field and the steep banks of the river.

The property between my place and the pig farm is very thick and is a major deer bedding area.  It's is a buck hang out.

 This is a classic deer funnel. It is a strip of woods bordered by Grain Fields and coastal grass fields. Everything is right, the strip has great cover: live and white oaks and cedars. The wind is perfect, and the deer are always close to a main food source. The river is a natural barrier. The grain fields are a big draw, year round. The wooded strip is the obvious choice for a deer travel route.

 So how do the Rolled Wire and 3rd Wire fit into the deer travel picture? Check the map and you will see that the woods is right up against the fence for most of the fence line. On the map you can see the small clearings where the 3rd Wire and Rolled Wire are. The clearings are the only place on the bedding area side of the funnel where there is enough space to jump the fence. 
The 3rd Wire is used mostly by doe families. The Rolled Wire is further from the road, concealed by a small rise. It gets some doe traffic but it is mainly a buck route. 
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