davemil you need an attitude adjustment you old grump, I asked a simple question and I get your above all better thaneveryone reply like normal!! You dont know where I hunt or what the area looks like so dont give me any lip on not hunting fields ... sir.I have lots of deer within 30 yards of me on any given night including some 120 " bucks but I'll let them grow a little which you dont practice but thats cool if thats what you choose to do. You live close to me, come meet me in Poolseville, I'll ****** you on the 1200 acre property and you can sit accross the field one time and watch with some binoculars and tell me I dont have the does figured out, when the rut is on go where the does are which is what Im doing. You keep sitting in the woods where ever it is you hunt and see nothing, I'll stick to my evening field edge hunting where I hunt. And if you read my post I said the past 2 weeks hehas been comingout "almost every other night" which is certainly not "showing himself nightly" as you said. Its a gamble this close to the rut either way, and this time of the year the bucks patterns can change daily depending on the rut which why Im hesitating. And my other stands are set up in the woods for morning hunts and at another fieeld location and Im not moving them either geniusbecause they are there for a reason also, so I can alternate stands in the woods and on field edges. Dont give me chit grumpy because as you said in another one of your replies you havent seen many deer latley or something thats why you shot that little scrub before you leave on your trip or something.