Found out my favorite hunting spot got logged

[Grumpy.papa]

One time I went to scout and saw that the whole area's clear cut. So I had to start over from scratch finding new spots. Anyone else lose a honey hole to logging or development? How'd you deal with it?

 

[Laser eyes]

I also lost a good deer spot because of logging. It took me a whole season to find a new one. I just treated it like I was starting from scratch. I ended up finding some better spots by walking a bit farther than I used to.

 

[Longwalk]

After the state purchased the property ,they found out that the coal company had the mineral rights to 500 acres where I had hunted for years. After they stripped the ground for coal [3years] they back filled and changed the entire landscape of some of the best hunting.

 

[Alan]

After the state purchased the property ,they found out that the coal company had the mineral rights to 500 acres where I had hunted for years. After they stripped the ground for coal [3years] they back filled and changed the entire landscape of some of the best hunting.

Wow, that’s rough, years of memories and good hunting gone just like that.

 

[Longwalk]

The hunting has got better over the years, but I'm to old now to drive 100 miles one way to hunt all day and then try to drag a deer out. It's all up hill where I hunted.

 

[Jim Mayo]

One of my "favorite" properties was logged about 20 years ago. First season was a little tough, but once I modified my strategy things actually got better. It forced me to hunt natural blinds and still hunt. Within 4 or 5 years I was back in trees. I'm older now and hunt mostly from pop-ups.

 

[Longwalk]

I mainly hunted around the Cadiz area off route 22 and 799. A lot of that area was either bought up and the fracking took away many hunting areas. Jockey hollow public land is where I hunted when I belonged to K & R conservation club and then it became public hunting. My friends and hunted that area for 40 years, they have all passed.

 

[Deleted member 30]

One of my landowners had the woods I hunted logged some years ago, but this wasn't a clear-cut logging. He explained to me that they gave him a sum of money and that entitled them to take anything over 18" in the woods. I was a little bummed, as much about they mess they made as anything else, there was no attempt to be neat about this, the trees were limbed and dragged out with no regard to what was left behind. But truthfully, a year later the hunting, in this case, got a lot better in terms of number of deer. Plus the log skidders they used left a couple of trails that became deer interstates. But I suspect that stuff like this isn't what usually happens.