My property is a long thin 10 acre rectangle. It has a road running all the way down one side and a cornfield running all the way down the down the other.

Its cut in half (all the way across) by a very low ridge with a hint of a gully paralleling it (also all the way across. The gully side is bottom land with no cover but tall grass. The ridge side is cleared ground and is no more than a couple hundred feet from my barn.

The ridge and gully are a deer highway to the cornfield adjacent to my property. There are two ponds on the opposite side by the road where the ridge and gully begin.

Here’s my problem. The only refuge the deer have is where the ponds and gnarly thickets and small forest are. They bed there all the time.

The distance to the corn field is about 200 feet on the ridge and about 400 feet in the bottomland/gully. I don’t want to encroach on the only sanctuary they have for a stand and I don’t have permission to use the cornfield to hunt from.

So I have been setting up at the end of the ridge in a groundblind pit almost at the cornfield to be able to shoot down into the bottomland or across the high ground.

Typically when the deer break cover from the pond and trees they fan out across the ridge and gully as well as coming straight across.

Any advice?