A Land Poll...

[CritterGitter]

Here is a poll for land options:

[CritterGitter]

Obviously the options are not the "most" ideal. If we could set up a piece of land perfectly it would have several different types of habitat. However, just for the purpose of the poll. If those were you're ONLY options, which would you go for?

CG

[Full Choke]

Looks like i have the correct and only vote!
Steve

[bill dowler]

there is always lots of deer around the housing developments, no hunting pressure

[rjolenic]

I think I'll take the "Country in the City" A lot of deer and a lot of tags to fill the freezer. No pressure and plenty of deer, all to myself. He, he, he !

Ray

[CritterGitter]

I voted for the 50. Seems it would be the easiest to work with.

CG

[bowtech777]

I picked the 50 acres also.
with it being surrounded on all sides would make playing the wind better and with only 50 acres you would be in a little more concentrted area of deer using the crop fields.

I just think it would be alot easier to get into the deer in this situation.

BUt, thats just my opinion.

[MUZZY MAN]

I took the 5-6 acre, I like the idea of being able to move in and out of the forest so easily.

[CStan]

I'd go with the 50 surrounded by crops

[countyroad]

50 Surrounded by crops.

[Airwave(OH)]

I took the 200, I'm sure there would be deer there and I THINK more would be better. Could only utilize the farthest from civilization maybe. Plenty of area to plant some food plots.
Believe me I would be very satisfied with the 50 too !
In other words take the 200 and only use 50.

[Ohio Bill]

50 wooded acres surrounded by crp fields!!! wow what a place!!

[Buckmaster]

50

[CritterGitter]

Only 31 votes?

[Thunderflight]

I went with the 50 too.

TF

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Depends on the 200 acres if it is located in a urban zone then i would go with the 200 acres.but if not i would go with the 50 acre surrounded by crop fields.Take 5 acres in the middle of your 50 and put in a food plot for winter months and you will have found heaven.:D

[CritterGitter]

Also, on the 50 add a few green pines and you are set!!!!

CG

[KillerSquirrel]

Put me down for 50. Though, I would like a little clearing or two near the middle. Everything I have heard or read is that deer are border dwellers. I want them inside the land I am hunting. That is what I am battling this year. I have a good hunting spot surrounded by corn fields, but there is one parcel of land where the owner doesn't allow hunting. I think every deer in the township is hanging out there until after deer season.

[Thunderflight]

I can't believe how much land is going for.

I really need to get my piece of Ohio now so I can afford to build a house ten years from now.

TF

[sycamoreredneck]

I picked the 10 only because that is what I am trying to buy!!! A 10.004 acre lot with a beuatiful, nearly new double wide on a full basement. The 10 acres is surronded by woods and field crops and is out in the middle of no where!!! If any of you OS.COM'ers know of any mortgage company's that will do a mortgage on manufactured houses with less than 10% down I will give you lifetime hunting rights on my land if I can just get it financed. Both my wife and I have exelent credit and very good jobs. Ok that offer should help me out some........especialy on this site!!

[Lewis]

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[Hoytme2]

50 with crops just like back home. I would however like a stream to run through the woodlot though if I can work that into the building specs!

[eschatts]

I would go with the over 50 myself. That gives you enough land to still hunt if you want to do so.

Ed

[Buckrun]

I’m greedy! I want the 50 acres then I’m going to buy the surrounding acres of field crops so I can plant what I want, where I want for the best hunting!:eek:

If I am going to dream I’ll dream the way I want!:D

Steve

[OHBOW76]

That is an awful tough decision between the 50 and 200. If I took the fifty I would have plenty of food in place, I would just make the central 5-10 acres off limits and do some selective cutting in there.I would make it thicker than snot, so the deer have a sanctuary within my sanctuary. If I had the 200 I would clear a big plot maybe 20-40 acres right in the middle of the property, and then clear some smaller plots 1-5 acres in size or so with a road connecting them all. I would allow a farmer plant the bigger fields and I would plant the road and a few smaller fields with oats, and clover.

[OHBOW76]

ewdec

[OHBOW76]

ghg

[Duffy]

Pardon my ignorance, but what does "ewdec" stand for? And I take it "ghg" doesn't mean "greenhouse gas"?

[OHBOW76]

Sorry I am not sure what happened there.....

[mrjbigfoot]

I needed a few extra options at a higher number of acres. I guess I should consider myself lucky that I have several thousand acres of land to hunt in Southern Ohio and I like looking at the map, considering weather, wind direction, what crops are where, what crops are harvested or not and what sign and/or deer have been seen & where and most importantly what other hunters may be providing pressure from where. I've scored on some nice deer by being in the right place at the right time for various different reasons that were normally a part of my pre-hunt thought process. I also have always liked smaller urban areas for quick hunts & filling doe tags when I don't have the time but they're getting so small any more that I worry about having to recover an animal that's run into a back yard or out onto a highway! I've taken quite a few deer in the urban Columbus area and once when I arrowed a doe & spooked a buck that I didn't see until after I arrowed the doe, he took off running toward the highway & was hit by a car out on the interstate (I was hunting a 70 acre urban parcel). I saw the accident and the familiar buck laying in the median as I was leaving with my doe. As the urban areas have decreased in size, these kinds of risks have increased dramatically. My experience has made me shy away from urban hunting as much as I used to. I was glad to see that no one was injured in the accident, other than the deer.