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Where in the heck to begin. I wrote a big deal and then it crashed. I'll try again. A couple of things. You have to be breaking a few laws with your hunting until 11 PM, sitting on stand an hour after dark etc etc. Most any place you hunt you can only hunt 1/2 hour before/after. SEcondly, sounds like you've watched too many dang videos, commercials, and "EXPert" professing this or that new stinky sensation. Forget the junk in your dryers, stinky this and stinky that. To become a HUNTER... you should be worrying about the wind. I never met
to many people that really knew what 40 feet up looks like. You don't need it by the way. 20-25 gives you better shot angles and a safer hunt.

You're hunting(SITTING) too much in one spot. Hunt a place a couple days and move on. Change trees every time out is really the best. I don't care if you only move 40 or 50 yards. MOVE. After a couple days on a ridge or in this area....move somewhere else.

Some have already told you about the piles of corn etc. In my opinion it generally screws your hunting up. If a deer knows there's a pile of corn that keeps getting replentished and there is hunting pressure .... he doesn't have to come searching for food in the daylight. He can wait until dark and gallop to the dinner. Also, a pile of corn is an invitation to all that wander by to hunt your spot...and they will. The may be nice enough to use their own climber or stand, or worse yet they may sit on the ground next to the gold mine. At any rate, your area, cover and hunt are busted. You're now just spending time, learning nothing, loosing time with the family and becoming a BIG WANNABEE.

Get rid of the gimmicks, hunt the wind, move... and when you think you've found the hot spot and hunted it...MOVE AGAIN. You can come back in a couple weeks, but don't ruin it by being impatient.

A walking commercial from CAbelas or Jackie Bushwhacker will not kill you deer. Forget everything you think you know, because obviously it doesn't work or isn't. That guy trying to sell you the latest witch oil doesn't really care if you're a good hunter. Only you can do that.

Sometimes it just takes a little common sense. All these commercial stinkys do not smell like the real deal to a deer. Plain old common sense is best.



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