Where to placed a stand 2

[dagr8bilster]

Ok guys this is my dismally small hunting area. It is completely flat for the most part. The edge is the salt marsh. Along the marsh is mixed palmetto palms, cedar, dense undergrowth with pockets of water. Then the growth turns into dense hardwoods and mixed woods. A few slash pines mixed with Live oaks and other hardwoods. I typically park near the cell phone tower. The property line is red. I have permission to shoot over each line and retrieve deer but not set-up there.

The cleared shooting lanes are in bright yellow. The trails are in light green roughly. There is no freshwater to my knowledge anywhere on the property except horse troughs up near the tack shed and in the horse patures ( the clear fields). I have a two man ladder stand, a hang on stand, and 2 climbers. I'm open and I'll welcome any possible suggestions on taking any bucks from this property. I am the only hunter. I've seen does and a spike or fork buck on trail cam along the main yellow trail.

[grassi25]

well, if the live oaks are dropping, they really like those. And honestly every island I have ever been to i have seen deer walking the marsh line. When I hunted in bluffton earlier in the year all the deer I saw came from the marsh.

[passinthru]

I would think that the marsh seems like a good spot. Around here they love that kind of cover and then you throw salt in the mix and seems like the perfect setup.

[crowhunter]

I'd like to see a wider view of the property to see what's around to get a better idea of where and how the deer are moving.

[swampbuck]

DEPENDS ON WHERE THE CORN PILE IS...

[dagr8bilster]

Thanks for the suggestions and feedback so far guys. The main issue with setting up near the marsh is the thickness of the growth, the lack of sturdy enough trees to hang a stand on, and difficulty getting to and from without detection. I guess I could cut an access trail so it would be easier to get in and out. I'll need to reevaluate and scout a little more for a good spot to set-up. Keep the comments and suggestions coming guys. Crowhunter....neither side of the property has people who hunt on them...but the red lines are the boundries where I can set-up with permission.

[kandjbrewer]

I suggest setting up in the hardwoods, near thick wooded areas, thickets are normally bedding areas. Set up near oaks that are producing acorns.

[dagr8bilster]

I drew in some more paths (yellow) The stars are where I put my ladder stands. There is a heavy travelled path near the marsh with several large scrapes. The yellow oval is a corn pile. The red line is the approved to hunt property. The stands are along the line where the woods turn from mostly hardwoods to mixed hardwood/palm/cedar and open up a bit. There are bedding areas along the finger of woods just up from the central stand. I need to clear a new shooting lane so I can see the finger of marsh where the deer cross frequently to get to the bedding on the finger. The deer that reside further in from the marsh seem not to travel too much except from the dug pond next door or the pastures. The food plots had a handful of does on them Tueday when I hunted as I was dring in I saw them running off.