If you have the time to hunt. Then certainly hunt!

I find ML season to be some of the most rewarding deer hunting ever. Very little pressure and the deer behave more normally than during the regular firearm onslaught.

I might do afew different things:

[ul][*]First off, alter your hunting position based on the current wind direction if you can. I would take a 5-gallon bucket and a pad and sit in a completely different area of my hunting "zone". Access the area different, don't follow the exact same path. If you find yourself "out of position" by a shift in wind that will carry your scent to the deer, then take your 5-gallon bucket and move yourself to wind-advantage. Sit next to a tree or tucked in front of a bush or thicket. You really don't need an elaborate "blind" if they can't smell you or see you move (every movement should be slooow). Then you have the advantage.[*]If you can, move right into the heavy cover area as that's where they will be holding longer during the fervor of regular hunting season.[*]They will be returning to bed from night forage earlier in the AM and coming out from beddinglater in the day. Arrive at your spot an extra 30-60 minutes in the AM and stick quietly. I bagged a nice doe(I'm only doe hunting the rest of theseason as Ihave two bucks)yesterday AM right at 7:14AM with my T/C Hawken 54 anda PRB at about 30 yards. However, I heardthe big doe and severalothersmoving around an hour prior. I was in my blindtwo hours before first shooting light.[*]If you get a heavy snow during the night, be sure to hunt the entire following day. They will bed for cover during a night storm and then often feed during the day afterwards.[*]Lastly, you can still find buck's trailing does well into December. So I would certainly keep my eye's on doe wandering about. There just may be a nice buck lurking near by or shortly thereafter.[/ul]
Best of luck!

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