I will be hunting x10 this year and have picked out an area that is roughly 25 square miles to glass and hunt. I will be in the field for 5 days and was curious to know if it is too big or too small of an area to hunt for 5 days. Thank you.
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Klxracer92
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My limited hunting knowledge tells me to cover as many miles as possible until i find tracks and sign. Another approach is to set your self up on a high peak that gives multiple vantage points and glass all day. Get there well before sunrise and stay until sunset. I don't know which produces better luck, but hunt hard. Using google earth and learning how to read a topo map helps me tremendously with finding vantage points. Good luck and have fun!
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I don't hunt X-10 but I think some things apply to most deer hunting zones. I just returned from a long hunt and we spent most of our time in a 1-2 mile area. The reason was we found bucks on the second day and tried to get on them. Maybe we were wrong (although my buddy did take one) but we felt once we found some bucks we needed to figure out how to get them. I think that is true to some degree everywhere. I like climbing high early and glassing a lot to locate them. I would think you might move around some until you locate something worth going after then narrow your hunt to a relatively small area and try to figure that area out. 25 square miles is a lot to cover but it might be what it takes at first to find where the bucks are.
