Stand Location Selection

I doubt I would jump straight into the timber. Hunt the edges on the correct winds that allow access to and from the stand whereas your not going to alert deer. Try to keep human intrusion/pressure low. There’s plenty of pinch points that look easily accessible on your map that you should be able to hunt and scout/observe All from your stand. Take the time to learn your farm and be as low impact as possible. If your able to keep pressure off you may not ever need to hunt the timber or ever enter the timber other that to track a deer. How many total acres ? How many hunters? What are the neighboring properties doing? How hard do they hunt? Do they have any management goals? You can burn a (new-to-you) property out fairly quick if you don’t take care to limit intrusion and stay out of your harder to access areas until the right time presents itself. Is this a new lease or did you purchase the property. By just glancing at the map the farm looks like it could hunt fairly well the way the geography lays . No doubt your extremely excited to pickup a new piece of ground that’s laid out like this farm seems to be.

I disagree with most of these guys on how to approach this season. Those soybeans will turn yellow sometime between September 10 and October first. Absolutely you need some field edge stands for as long as the beans are still green....those are easy...sit out there at a distance over the next couple of weeks and watch where deer are entering the fields and set your early stands accordingly.

BUT....my focus would be how to get ready for what happens when the beans turn and acorns start dropping. To that end I'd be up there in that timber looking at the oak flats for the biggest concentrations of trees loaded with acorns that are on those flatter ridge tops where wind is more consistent and I'd be setting stands to take advantage of that. Not only will those stands be your go to stands for most of October, they'll be great rut stands for bucks checking on doe bedding areas up there and on does still working on acorns. If your bottom fields were standing corn I might tweak my plans a bit more and stick a tad closer to the corn because deer will bed and stay in that corn....you can do that next year when the crops rotate. I like the ridge tops that I marked with red....find acorns...play the wind. You dont' have to tromp all over the place more than once or twice to scout and set stands...I'd be doing it ASAP then I'd Hunt that timber as soon as the beans turn!!

Those strips of cover in the bottoms near the beanfieds look primos for late season when the deer come back to the bean waste or any standing bean left.....