reathering edges and securing bedding areas

The first picture shows 3 a year old hinge cut field edge that helps secure a good bedding area and also screens your movement when going to your stand. second pic shows how i trimmed a sneak trail so i can dictate where the deer enter the food plot. the third pic shows an area that really needs to be feathered! any deer within 100 yards from the field edge can see your movement. after the edge is secured you can travel within 25 yards of the deer and they won’t know that you are there. it also stops the mature bucks from being able to check a field without entering it or at least getting to the edge where you will be waiting on the sneak trail you cut for him

Great examples Bob!

Wow! What a difference a little chainsaw work can make. The amount of browse that you have created combined with dictating deer movement looks phenomenal. Do you have a pretty high deer population Bob? Looks like a pretty pronounced browse line in that last photo.

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Looks like a pretty pronounced browse line in that last photo.

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Thats what I was thinking,either that or its old cattle land? Hingeing next week when I round up my corn and beans and put my blinds up. Creating brush fences along edges of my plots has directed my traffic wonderfuly! Again, looks GREAT!

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Wow! What a difference a little chainsaw work can make. The amount of browse that you have created combined with dictating deer movement looks phenomenal. Do you have a pretty high deer population Bob? Looks like a pretty pronounced browse line in that last photo.

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We have a decent population during the summer months butt as the surrounding pressure increases and winter sets in the population increases to the point that overbrowsing is a problem. the hinge cut trees have really helped to increase the amount of browse available.