###Why You Need Defined Deer travel Corridors to Your Whitetail Deer Food Plots###

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What is a defined deer tour corridor? It's a high traffic route in the middle of bedding area to deer food plots, food to food, or bedding to bedding, basically in the middle of hot spots of deer activity. These tour corridors, or lines of movement, and the integrity of those lines, are critical to your land's capability to hold deer and hunting success.

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Random tour routes on your asset are a major stumbling block to your hunting success. An example of this would be taking a large piece of asset and making it all sanctuary by doing a large scale timber harvest. Another example of this is the wildlife arrival by attempting to heighten every square inch of your land for deer or other game. The end follow of random tour corridors is a asset that is practically impossible to hunt! Great if you never hunt the parcel, but not for hunters. You don't want to be left with land that evenly distributes the deer herd over the whole property, making it impossible for you to walk in from any direction without spooking deer. This is less noticeable on several hundred acres, but on a small parcel you are setting traps for yourself by spooking deer through random, undefined patterns of movement which can ruin your asset in the first consolidate days of hunting.

Travel corridors within the asset can be anchored and enhanced by larger hot spots and can be best defined in a few ways such as:

1. Creating small whitetail deer food plots.

2. Creating bedding pockets, which commonly attract the female quantum of the local herd due to the high-traffic location.

3. Creating brush, hinge cut, debris, or timber cutting lines that cut off outer "non-improved" areas through which you entrance your stand locations, with the created and improved areas upwind and behind screening cover to offer a defined edge of travel.

4. Lay of the land could be an inner topography change, open pond or waterway, or any other natural feature that constricts deer movement to one side or the other.

It is critical that both hot spots on each end of the corridor, and the corridor itself, are insulated or screened from the approaching hunter in some manner. Both bedding and whitetail deer food plots have to be screened effectively to be secure. You are providing very secret and gain lines of daily movement for the local herd so each hot spot has to be protected from your movements. It does no good to have the "perfect" bedding or food plot if a deer in either of those locations can stand on the edge and see you 50 yards away as you walk by or entrance your stand locations.

By hunting the tour corridors, and not the hot spots, you decrease your risk of deer/human encounters. A "line of movement" is just that! The deer are traveling in a line from hot spot to hot spot. Unlike a hot spot where a deer may visit deer food plots or bedding areas for hours at a time, a deer spends a very tiny estimate of time traveling in a defined line of movement. Of procedure a deer will stop to browse or a buck may be successfully slowed down by providing licking branches within the tour corridor, but by hunting a line of movement you expose yourself only a fraction of the time to deer in comparison to its hot spots.

These lines of movement are one of the most prominent aspects of asset management. Often the success of the asset doesn't fall under the excellent bedding area or deer food plots. Instead your success will fall under how well you develop and maintain the integrity of the lines of movement on your land.

Why You Need Defined Deer travel Corridors to Your Whitetail Deer Food Plots