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Logging near property line
Posted on 9/27/25 at 11:12 pm
Posted on 9/27/25 at 11:12 pm
So we have about 360 acres next to a refuge. They are logging next to the property line. Would like to know if I should set up along close to it or completely avoid it. (Water will build up soon so they may halt cutting). Would just like to know personal experiences and how it affects the deer.
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Posted on 9/27/25 at 11:14 pm to unclepeanut
A lot of acorns on ground from tree clearance but the equipment around makes me nervous. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Posted on 9/28/25 at 4:24 am to unclepeanut
Scout for sign. Tracks and scat. If sign is there set up a portable stand.
Posted on 9/28/25 at 5:20 am to unclepeanut
I always liked hunting fresh cutovers, when I was younger I'd get in my climber on the edge (tree line) and go 20-25 ft up.
Posted on 9/28/25 at 7:47 am to unclepeanut
I always love any type of terrain transition or edge. I especially love setting up near fresh cutovers.
I’ve killed deer next to logging operations and I know guys who’ve killed deer sitting on their equipment.
I’d hunt it for sure
I’ve killed deer next to logging operations and I know guys who’ve killed deer sitting on their equipment.
I’d hunt it for sure
Posted on 9/28/25 at 4:33 pm to unclepeanut
I will die on the hill that nothing, even corn, attracts deer better than a fresh clear cut so long as it hasn’t been sprayed. Find travel lanes from bedding to the edge. If you can find a small finger of SMZ that extends out into the clearcut, they will stage there before dark and feed in the clearcut all night.
Posted on 9/28/25 at 4:59 pm to unclepeanut
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Would just like to know personal experiences and how it affects the deer
It has no negative impact on the deer and I have watched deer walk out while skidders were running trees falling.
They will continue to follow the same travel routes and rub lines on trees will continue to be in the same area as they once were.
Posted on 9/28/25 at 5:50 pm to unclepeanut
Man, hunting is about to pick up for you!
Posted on 9/29/25 at 2:03 pm to unclepeanut
I shot my best deer on the edge of a clearcut. My stand had been there for years and had always been productive; but the year they clearcut I saw more than ever and shot a nice one.
Posted on 9/29/25 at 2:37 pm to unclepeanut
Like the late LSU professor Dr. Robert Noble would say quite often "the best friend of a white-tailed deer is a chainsaw."
Hunt in around that cutover.
Hunt in around that cutover.
Posted on 9/29/25 at 4:31 pm to unclepeanut
When they start logging, on the weekends walk around the logging equipment when they aren’t there You will see tracks around them and even nose prints on the equipment itself
They don’t mind one bit and the next year will be much better As long as they don’t spray it
They don’t mind one bit and the next year will be much better As long as they don’t spray it
Posted on 9/29/25 at 6:04 pm to Ron Cheramie
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next year will be much better
That’s a fact!
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