Stone Branch
10 pointer
After hunting deer and working habitat in midwestern farm country for 30 or so years, 20 in Michigan, then 10 in Iowa I decided to try my hand out west on public land. Colorado was a fun break but it only took a couple of years to realize that I needed to get back to hunting deer and habitat on my own ground. I missed the woods and the whip-poor-wills. After over coming then embracing the fact that Kentucky is a one buck state I started looking for my next challenge of hunting in the hills and found Stone Branch.
I completed the purchase of Stone Branch, which is 164 acres, in February
and began thinking about what it is going to take to make Stone Branch more attractive to deer.
So I took my saw up the hill to a centrally located 2 acre triangular area designated in blue below.
The area contained few oaks, a lot of red maple, and larger tulip poplar.
I'm not a huge fan of hinge cutting but to bring down some sun to increase cover and natural browse it just seemed to be right for this spot. Here the poplars are my crop trees and were left standing.
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I completed the purchase of Stone Branch, which is 164 acres, in February
and began thinking about what it is going to take to make Stone Branch more attractive to deer.
So I took my saw up the hill to a centrally located 2 acre triangular area designated in blue below.
The area contained few oaks, a lot of red maple, and larger tulip poplar.
I'm not a huge fan of hinge cutting but to bring down some sun to increase cover and natural browse it just seemed to be right for this spot. Here the poplars are my crop trees and were left standing.
G