Arizona Hunting Club & Outdoor Adventure Group

Scouting Inside Corners
on Topographic Hunting Maps

Inside corners and double inside corners are also known as half funnels. A farm field or pasture can sometimes for an "L" in the timber it adjoins. This "L" shaped inside corner is easy to find on satellite aerial maps and some topographic maps.

Elk and deer will stay in the woods and cut around these corners when traveling from one end of the woods to the other side. Knowing this travel pattern allows you to place a stand at the perefect intercept point.

Inside corners are highly productive areas, but low key and ofter overlooked by hunters. Like true funnels, they are productive throughout the year, although the tail end of the rut will give you the best chance at a trophy in this location.

In this topographic map, you can see the inside corner. Many times the animal will round the corner versus walking to the end point and turning sharply.

The other option deer and elk sometimes take is to run straight across the field from the point of this corner. This is even more likely when there is another corner to finger of trees darting across the field to provide cover.

1. Stock Tanks
2. Ridges
3. Ridge End Points
4. Game Trail Hubs
5. Saddles and Dips in the Ridge
6. Hillside Benches
7. Forest/Pastures/Burn Breaklines
8. Field Saddles/Creek Beds
9. Hilltop Field Funnels
10. Forest Inside and Double Inside Corners
11. Natural Funnels/Chokepoints