How To Improve Deer Stands and Turkey Blinds
Ed Johnson 04.23.11
Cleaning up and altering your deer woods while improving how your deer and turkey move past your stand is pretty easy to do. While you don’t want to over do it, you can adjust how deer and turkey move past your stand by moving logs, rocks and brush to create barricades. Because deer and turkey prefer the easiest and safest route they will funnel away from harder travel zones and move through a clearer route when not spooked.
Remember to keep in mind why deer and turkey are traveling a particular direction. They are searching for things such as food, water and bedding or roosting areas. Also, it is not impossible to use this trick to push deer and turkey out into a field, but if given a choice, they almost always stick to the woods. A fallen tree, stump or rock changes deer and turkey patterns everyday so now you know how to use it to your advantage.
Hunting, fishing, and the outdoors, is no stranger to Ed Johnson. Groomed in the outdoors by a grandfather and two uncles, since he was a small child, with a fly rod in one hand, and a bow in the other, Ed has 50 years of bow hunting experience behind him. He has record bow kills in the Safari Club International record books with a collection of some 60 mounts and has taken 17 species with bow in Africa. He has received awards for North America's Top Ten and Goats of the World and Wild Sheep of the World.
He is a member of Safari Club International, Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA), North American Hunting Club, NWTF, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Ducks Unlimited, Trout Unlimited, ICAST, and retired co-founder and owner of the Bass Pro Crappie Masters All American Tour. Ed still maintains his status as a professional photographer and is an avid freelance writer for numerous outdoor publications. He was featured in several hunting videos with Roger Raglin, and On The Water and In the Woods, with Cody and Cody. He serves on the pro staff and pro staff review board for Commando Hunting Products and is senior adviser and consultant and Trusted Expert Pro Staffer for Trusted Outdoor Gear and OutdoorHub.com
His love for the Ozark whitetail and old tom turkey is still his passion. Ed is quite active in promoting the outdoors and enjoys sharing hunts with others, especially first timers! His mission in life is to expose people, young and old, to this great pastime of hunting and fishing. Each year he takes a group into Ontario for bear hunting and fishing. In a time when it is getting more difficult to get kids exposed to nature, Ed believes all outdoors men and women, can and will play an important role in helping to expose more children to the outdoors. The bottom line….our hunting industry future. Ed has coined the phrase "teach a child to hunt and fish and you will never have to hunt the child"!
