My "Hail Mary" Stand/Plan

I think this is going to be my outside the box year as far as what plans I have in place for this coming hunting season. I hung a new stand a couple saturdays ago on a tree line that I have hunted before but not in this spot. When I hunted it before I was farther to the east and really never had a deer close enough to shoot at. I am calling it a Hail Mary because it really is in a spot I feel is either going to be awesome or stink.





My theory is this. Last year there was a small tornado that hit here. Although it was rated F0 it did some pretty significant damage to the neighbors house and camper trailer. Their fifth wheel camper ended up on their house. It also knocked down about a 50-75 yard swath of trees in this tree line. (yellow circle on the ariel below) What I believe has happened is a buck is using these trees to bed in. They are still laying down, the farmer to the south had pushed them off of his property but they are still lying all over the place. Its made for some pretty good cover in my book. So if this holds true I think I have a good set up to catch a buck moving in and out of this area. The green dotted lins are travel routes that I know deer use. So regardless if a buck is in that area it might still be a good stand. What you can't really see on the picture is the fence that goes around the neighbors property, it goes east to where the green dotted line crosses the green field on the ariel. This fence causes the deer to go around it and thus makes a pretty good pinch point at the SE corner of the fence just to the left of where my stand is.


The area to the north outlined in Red is the sanctuary and I know that the heaviest area of travel is from the SE corner of the Sanctuary down across corn field and then across the driveway to this fence line. In fact I found the shed to the buck i named "sanctuary" on this fence line. So this might give me a chance to go after him or "peeping tom" with a north, northwest, or west wind(blue arrows) which I cant hunt in the tripod next to the sanctuary.



I am going to leave my camera over the mineral block for the rest of July and maybe into August, however once it gets late in August I am going to move it to this fence line. I will probably put it near the driveway for a week or two. See I see anybody going through there and what time they are, then I will put it to the east of the stand on the tree line, probably facing the corn field to the south and see if anybody is moving through there. This will give me a great idea of whats going on without getting in to close to this area.



When I first started hunting here I would see a really nice buck in this spot quite a bit when leaving at dark after hunting. So I know it has held them before and I have a hunch it will again this year. We will see.