Vogt, now ya got it.

Time to make some smaller trails here and there for deer to use exclusively, thru maybe a bit thicker stuff. Ain't gotta be hogged or "mowed", maybe some machete work would even do it. Yeah, they look for less restrictive ways.

If you know of travel ways they have been using regularly, sometimes you can drop a tree or position an existing deadfall to force them to go around it, maybe off into your ambush. Complicating the situation by involving creek crossings and such further distract them and increase your odds if you play the cards right.

We are smarter than they are! (Well atleast sometimes-LOL)