Ideal clear cut age for blacktails?

[Shaqdiesel]

Try using google earth and onx maps at the same time, sometimes the landscape can be very deceiving and often times google has better resolution and more recent photos with better detail.

[JasonG]

I definitely use them in tandem for that reason! And then go to the location and it's different as well. Ha!

[JasonG]

I found some better looking cuts . It is definitely impassable. Would you set a stand on the edge ? Try rattling?

[deerhunter_98520]

Wouldn't hurt t to try rattling but I wouldn't sit on it all day....doesn't look like you can see a whole lot in them trees

[JasonG]

Wouldn't hurt t to try rattling but I wouldn't sit on it all day....doesn't look like you can see a whole lot in them trees

yeah its waaaay to thick !

[fishnfur]

That was probably a fun spot to hunt about five years ago.  The cut appears to be at least 10 years old, which is the upper limit for a cut's ability to grow food.  I can count at least eight whorls on the trees, and there's generally a couple more years of slower growth at the base of the stem/trunk from the trees first couple years after planting.  It appears the bases of the trees appear to have grown out far enough to meet the adjacent trees, which shades out everything underneath.  That's not saying there's not deer in there, but seeing them is almost impossible.   Ultimately, I'd keep looking for a cut with smaller trees - something in the five to ten foot tall range.

If you could have hunted this a few years ago, the upper edges and sides of the surrounding timber would be areas to concentrate on while hunting.  Also, if you could find a vantage point from above in a spot like this that let you see down into and in between the trees (tree stand or bluff), you can just post up and glass all day waiting for something to move.  Hunting/glassing from below is a much more difficult proposition because the trees hide all the action from that angle.

[Bullkllr]

^That's what my old man referred to as "walled off".

[TikkaT3-270Shortmag]

Wouldnt waste my time on that old cut.  Maybe hunt the timber that birders it. 

[JasonG]

Wouldnt waste my time on that old cut.  Maybe hunt the timber that birders it.

Defintey a ton of tracks that go right into the abyss! The older timber might be a spot to set up a stand. 

[JimmyHoffa]

Walking through that is the best test of rain gear short of going for an actual swim.

[Crunchy]

I would bet that it is thick enough that it is a good bedding area.  Walk the perimeter and look for trails going to and from that nasty thick stuff.  Set up an ambush point or follow the trails to see where they are actually feeding.

[JasonG]

I would bet that it is thick enough that it is a good bedding area.  Walk the perimeter and look for trails going to and from that nasty thick stuff.  Set up an ambush point or follow the trails to see where they are actually feeding.

That is what Im looking to do. I have a spot between two cuts that might work out. I have a cam on the trail. Time will tell!

[Crunchy]

Yes and if there are no roads close to the back side of that nastiness I bet it will be a really good spot.  Most people are going to look at that spot and keep on moving. 

[JasonG]

No roads back there. Might just turn out to be a good spot!

[deerhunter_98520]

If there's big timber on the back side that's open enough to hunt that would be the place to out your stand or blind...going in that reprod the deer will just run circles around you and you will hear them but doubtful you will see them till they move out of there.