Trapper,
Picture your deer stand as sitting at the tip of the neck on a funnel. Everthing in or around the circumferance(sp) moves to YOU.
If your hunting private land you can create funnels by cutting out small paths that will force deer to travel into your gun sights. I've done this with several stands on a farm I've been hunting for 7 yrs. One of the tricks is obviously, not to funnel deer to close to stand. Its alot of work initially but once you get a funnel set up it will pay off big time.