Scouting For Whitetails With Your Computer

Worry and happiness comes over me as Iallowed me to pick my scouting points quickly and
stumbled onto hunting permission for 300 acresnot waste valuable time in places that may not
just down the road. Happiness because now Ihold many deer.
have a totally new piece of property to spendAfter about an hour carefully going over what I
time hunting on, which will allow me to put lesshave seen on the aerial photos, I pick my hunting
pressure on the other properties. Worry becauselocations based on the wind direction I will be
it's October 1st. and I have not set foot on thishunting and where I believe the deer will be
property yet.coming from. I got to the property about 3:00
With a land plat in-hand, I begin to find thewith my climber on my back and head into what I
property using some free aerial photo softwarethink will be a great place to sit in a tree stand for
on the computer. Google Earth, is going to be mythe evening. As I walk across the cornfield and
computerized scouting tool. I am able to zoominto the woods I begin seeing deer tracks, trails
right in on the property and find all the cornfields,and rubs. I continue back into the woods about
pinch points, cut-overs and creeks with ease. You100 yards to a funnel I located with the aerial
couldn't ask for a better way to scout a propertyphotos and begin looking for a trail and the right
in my opinion. I was able to dissect the propertytree. It didn't take long to locate a well-worn trail
in a matter of minutes all without putting anyleading to the cornfield and the perfect tree for
scent in the woods or alerting any whiteteails tomy climber not 15 yards away. The use of aerial
my presence. Granted there is no substitute forphotos makes hunting and scouting alot less work,
finding a great rub line leading out of a beddingand alot more specific...
area, but Google Earth (and others as well)