Here is the scenario

[Big Daddy]

I put a new tripod off of a trail between feeder and a bedding / scrape area. It was a.logging trail with mature pines on both sides. Trail has grown up with about 6' pines and deer and hogs meander thru them to feeder. Question is should I now this road ?

[CWKATTNER]

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[pazthru]

Mow now?

[Dannyzuber]

yes but ASAP

[bowhuntntxn]

No. You should pile downed branches across the trail to push the deer closer to you in an open location. Leaving it natural will keep the deer calm and give them a sense of being hidden. And since branches fall all the time, adding them to block the trail is no igndeal to them.

Knock down all the cover, and they will modify their travel routs themselves, and it just might not be the direction you need them to go.

[wyliescrib]

mow it asap... when i hunt an area that is super thick i mow a path that gets within shooting distance of my stand.... i have found that deer are like people in the sence that they will take the path of least resistance....

[Big Daddy]

mow it asap... when i hunt an area that is super thick i mow a path that gets within shooting distance of my stand.... i have found that deer are like people in the sence that they will take the path of least resistance....

Kinda what i was thinking

[quarterback]

Is the trail such that you could plant peas or something on? I did that one year in East Texas and they tore them up. It was like crack to all the critters in the woods.

[Big Daddy]

Is the trail such that you could plant peas or something on? I did that one year in East Texas and they tore them up. It was like crack to all the critters in the woods.

Yep, had not thought about that.

[JSF]

mow it asap... when i hunt an area that is super thick i mow a path that gets within shooting distance of my stand.... i have found that deer are like people in the sence that they will take the path of least resistance....

This

[bwssr]

and toss out some rye grass and some no plow stuff.....every time you go threw there...

[Lhamilton]

Is the trail such that you could plant peas or something on? I did that one year in East Texas and they tore them up. It was like crack to all the critters in the woods.

this is what i did the past few years

[Tubby]

No. You should pile downed branches across the trail to push the deer closer to you in an open location. Leaving it natural will keep the deer calm and give them a sense of being hidden. And since branches fall all the time, adding them to block the trail is no igndeal to them.

Knock down all the cover, and they will modify their travel routs themselves, and it just might not be the direction you need them to go.

This ^^^

They're in the woods because they want to be in the woods. If they wanted to be in a mowed pasture, they'd be in a mowed pasture.

[cheez]

i have found that deer are like people in the sence that they will take the path of least resistance....

I found this to be true in north Texas. I mowed a path to make it easier and quieter to get to my stand. Deer and pigs quickly made it a regular trail. Had several scrapes along it. I didn't plant anything along it but maybe I should have.

[Big Daddy]

This ^^^

They're in the woods because they want to be in the woods. If they wanted to be in a mowed pasture, they'd be in a mowed pasture.

There are no pastures anywhere close. Our 1800 acres is part of 10000 pine plantation and all.we have are old logging roads and a few creek bottoms. So ky thinking is path of least resistance.