My hunting season may be ruined

Some of the clear cuts could be great places to hunt

Not as bad as you'd imagine. I had a logger select cutting my lease one year and promised to finish before first Saturday of October. 8 o'clock on first saturday I was in a my stand overlooking a creek bottom watching the squirrels cutting acorns when a crew drives in and cranks up a chainsaw. Every squirrel in the area imediately without hesitation evacuated the trees. Some even jumped out. But by lunch the loggers were through and that even I arrowed a small buck within sight of their staging area. He was just meandering down the middle of one of the skidder trails which was near my stand.

ETA: I probably killed six deer that year because back then were brown it's down days and I rarely didn't kill at least six. Also pretag days.

Deer are curious. They will go check out something new. I think you will be ok. It will open up some areas.

Do not worry grasshopper.

Deer are used to all that racket. We've had several thinnings of the pines and they will come back. We had one of our biggest bucks ever killed last year in one food plot with clear cut on the right side and thinned pines on the left (by a guest )