Edges, funnels & transitions, explained.

An edge is anywhere two habitat types meet - timber against field, brush against open woods, a fence cutting a pasture - and a funnel is anywhere that meeting squeezes travel into a narrow lane. The 6 features here are the workhorses of stand placement: funnels and pinch points, clearcut regrowth, fence crossings, inside field corners, staging areas and the transition lines that run inside the timber. They suit hunters who pick a spot and let game come to them, and most are readable straight off an aerial photo, which makes them the natural starting point for anyone new to scouting. The catch: edges are obvious, so on pressured ground the corner that draws deer draws every other hunter too - and much of the movement on open edges happens in the last minutes of light.