Deer & Deer Hunting

FENCE-LINE TRAFFIC Beat Me to it

Now and then an 8-point buck would run the brushy fence line on the north edge of our property. I had seen it a couple of times, but out of arrow range. It obviously was a mature whitetail. The fence line wasn’t a big area but long and thin. Any deer traveling here could spook if I put too much setup or hunting pressure on any single area.

I set up on the fence line because it was the

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