favored spots

Well- been huntin across the street for well over 40 years. Started with over 800 acres to myself and now down to bout 60 that I share.
 Its a very rare thing here in Ct to be able to walk out the back door and Deer hunt. Been very aware of my good fortune  all this time. Many deer taken from that place.
  Got told a few days ago that this year is probably IT. The Corporate Director of the remaining property got promoted and his replacement is unlikely to permit Hunting.
  Wont be anyone hunting there anymore but the frequent poachers-makes ya wonder sometimes.
 Gonna take an afternoon walk with the muzzel loader cause its the last day in more ways than one.
 Pulling the trigger if opportunity arises- wellll -will see how that goes..

Been hunt a small piece of woods for a very long time and has proven to be quite the monster producing spot. I have taken Only a couple tho!!! You can see them almost on a daily event,But getting a shot on them is not so easy. It is pretty thick and I can't go in and cut a bunch of shooting lanes. Was asked by the owner to try limit what I cut down. I only hunt this in archery NEVER take a gun there. The edges of this property has a few house on them,So no gun!!! Have a farm of a 100 acres and is just loaded with Doe and a few  decent bucks.  Lost 2 spot last year do to housing plans (  WHERE THE HECK DO ALL THESE PEOPLE COME FROM???????????)   Cranberry is Exploding with new Housing Plans,store and businesses. 

Know that feelin 10= not retired anymore -lol -new job- finding decent property to hunt. 
  Glad to see you guys able to make adjustments. Times, they are achangin.
  Another fella bumped 6 today while I was still huntin them. Good day though.
  Starting to feel like Geronimo- Trying to do things they way his people did for hundreds of years till everyone started tellin him he was wrong and he got  squeezed into smaller and smaller places. Then they made him retire to Florida. I aint goin to Florida.

lots of room for hunting in florida , only thing
you need to adjust to phyton hunting which i'm
sure with a little study and help you could adjust
  i bet handling one of those critters would be
pretty exciting and besides you could cash in
on them as they are looking for hunters, lol

I've learned over the past 10 years or so is to constantly be in search of new hunting grounds. Keep the old ones for as long as you can, but keep searching for new. Also, you do not need 600 acres to hunt on to have success. Although that would be nice, you can still git-r-dun on 20-30 acres.
 
BH

Being 60 I've seen a lot of hunting grounds go,I guess it part of the game. I can remember hunting from daylight to dark, having two trucks a starting and a pickup point. We could hunt several farms that  where connected  covering miles. I've got several spots left from 11 acres to 100 all are pretty small compare to the old days but still have deer and turkey. The small game days are prettymuch gone,I don't know why a got a beagle pup but I did, I've always had them. Once the yuppy non hunting people( thought it way be fun to build a huge home and buy and old farms things really changed, there's not to much luck knocking on doors anymore. 20 years ago hardly every got turned down.

I've been pretty lucky..have a cousin that owns about 30 acres I can hunt anytime, also down the road is a elderly man that doesn't post his land and its a fairly large tract, plus I've taken several deer off of Public lands

Spot on Doc. Misguided leading the misinformed supported by the  mismanaged.
  Ya just cant make this stuff up---

My favorite spots have no deer anymore. Between the timber growing and the doe killed off, dam near barren. Even a 75 acre clearcut ,done 12 years ago,adjacent to my spot ,had no affect. About 600 acres of huntable ground produced 2 bucks this year.1 was a nice one though. I guess that is what we want. The same area, 10 years ago or so,had at least 6 BIG bucks on every year. Gettin one was tough, because of the terrain, but they were there....WF