HMMMMMM...... Looks like ya might have to do like some people discussed here several months ago, before the seasons opened here farther north.

Spend the night in the stand, to be there at first arrival of your bedding deer!

Is the scrape freshley worked each morning? How fast did you enter the area when ya went in after first light? Going in after first light you will have to "still hunt" your way in if you want to see the deer.

I am not sure what part of "bama" you'r from, but mabe you are "getting lucky" now & getting some snow. That will help you:

See where they been traveling!

Spot them easier!

Enter quiter!

Of course, if there is snow on the ground, the deer can also see you easier, but the first snow, and down there were you rarely get snow, the deer will not realize (at first) how much easier it is for you to spot them.

I always figuer it worth taking off work, to hunt the first snowey day, especially, if I am still looking for a buck!

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