Bedding Area at Property Entrance?

[texasproud11]

I'm new to land management and need some thoughts. The property I'm hunting is heavily wooded (about 1.5 acres of the 20) with young mesquite at the only entrance to the property and on the path to the stands, allowing for spooking as soon as I pull up to the gate. The canopy is about chest heigth. I've found multiple deer droppings under it and laid down grass. There is plenty of other bedding on the property and it borders a WMA. My thought is to go and raise the canopy layer by removing all limbs under 8 foot and only leaving the branches low around the border to screen my movement and prevent bedding. Does this seem right or am I off somewhere on my strategy?

ps I cant enter the property elsewhere as it is on a cliffs edge and I enter at the lowest point.

[texasproud11]

The deer could be using it for a corridor but it seems like nasty stuff to just pass through walking.

[Burnadell]

I'm no help. I cannot get a visual image of what you are talking about. You hunt 1.5 ac out of 20, and the deer bed by your entrance? That's gonna be tough.

Do you have a satellite image you can post?

[texasproud11]

Yeah thats confusing. The deer seem to be bedding in the patch of dense mesquite that is at the front of my property nearest the entrance. The bedding area is about 1.5 acres of bush.

[TheHammer]

I would road corn the entrance road every time you drive in and out. They will associate your truck as feed to them when you come in.

[GarGuy]

I would road corn the entrance road every time you drive in and out. They will associate your truck as feed to them when you come in.

This...and then hunt the road just inside the gate