re: My hunting season may be ruined

there is a lot of good points in this thread though.

clear cutting will help the under growth and vegetation.

I would go find a couple of nice oaks and see what comes out. You may be surprised

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May be the best season you've ever had. I welcome them cutting no matter when it is. Is used to sweat it, but after seeing the pay off I've changed my tune. Always pains my heart to them cut big hardwood though. I think of the generation that will never see that kind of growth. Nothing prettier then big hardwood bottoms at daylight. Not great for killing big deer thou.

I think they learn that once the machinery goes queit. They can come in and. Find fresh acorns on the ground, new browse such. As cut tree tops, etc

Same stuff is happening to the lease I hunt in Mississippi. Deer like cutovers for bedding. Maybe not right away, but give it time.

If you want to plant something for late season, go with turnips. Up here, it's way past time to plant them--not like the drought helped much anyway--but you can plant them down South up until around early or mid-October, depending on when the first good frost is expected.

If you plant them now, you should be in good shape. Once the frost kills the plant, starch turns into sugar, and deer will be all over it. I'm going to plant some next year adjacent to one of our corn or bean fields and fence it off to keep cattle out.

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I'm in north Louisiana. I think the wheat will be good to go.

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For sure. The only reason I suggested turnips is because it's a cold-weather crop. Deer will turn the plot inside out come late season.

I'm giving bowhunting a shot, too, because we only get 12 days of rifle in Kansas, 9 in Nebraska. We have very few, if any, suitable trees for a stand site, so I've got a round bale blind with real straw. It's farm country, so they know what we smell like, and round bales don't spook them. I'm limited to evenings-only hunts until the rut. I really don't want to try infiltrating the wooded areas because I don't want to risk bumping them off the property completely.

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The boys on tv always set up in the buffer zone between fields.

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It's practically a buffer zone where I'm setting up, but the tree selection is terrible for hanging a stand. It's mostly cedar trees in the area, and they aren't but maybe 10' tall.

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They probably won't replant until January or February. They thing you've got to watch for is that they new trend is to row the property before planting. Think three foot rows from trough to top. Makes it all but impossible to go across them

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Not everyone does this (rows).

I've had the pleasure of having the same lease for 30 years. I've seen it all in big timber, clearcuts, select cuts, burned, and everything in between. Our place is pretty big, and about once every 3 years or so there is a logging operation going on during hunting season somewhere on the property. I've killed deer in sight of the loggers on numerous occasions. One year I killed bucks on consecutive evenings sitting on a pile of logs the loggers had just left 15 minutes prior. Logging doesn't spook deer or push them to be nocturnal near as much as hunters driving 4-wheelers to stands or hunting the same stands over corn piles every day.

Although, a cutting timber during turkey season can cause a flock of turkeys to pick up and move and not come back. I've seen this several times.