I always wait them out. Here in the mountains and forests, the type of feeding areas I hunt...are usually clearcuts and natural feed like buck brushin the mountains...deer really never sit in one spot like deer might on an agricultural area. Deer here move as they feed....especially mature bucks. I really notice it with the older bucks and does...They learn over time to feed in different spots and move along as they go. I believe its from all the predationthey recieve from wolves, mountain lion, bear and yotes... not to mention humans. They are less predictable this way.

I alway have an exit route planned by knowing how the deer move through the area. Mornings and evenings are much different due to thermals combining with winds to create some crazy winds....Playing the wind inthe moutnains is a completelydifferent playing field than flat ground.... I rely much more on being clean than I do wind direction.The wind swirls here pretty much throughout each day. A constant wind direction for more thanone hour is rare. Light a campfirehere andjust watch the smoke. Deer use the thermals more than the wind directions...in their movements...Again I am relying on being extra clean. I believe deer smell traces of predators daily...Science proves that scent molecules break down and dissipate. Deer know what harmful scent is heavy and concentrated or weak. They react accordingly.I try to keep my concentration of obtrusive scent moleculesto a minimum so that I come across to the deer in my area as someone that has passed by much earlier...or that I am much fruther away. The deer react accordinly...which usually means, I might see them look around for a second or two...then go back to their normal behaviors...I dont think we can eliminate all human scent..but Iput in a lot of effort tomimimize it enough that I haveobserved aconsistent tolerance to me by the deereven by very mature bucks...most deerrarely notice me these days even when they cross my path into my stands. Once they cross that path...well even if they stopand take a whiff....well the pathis positioned in such a fashion that I already have an arrow through thier boiler room!

Good luck, don't let em know your hunting them and you will be able to hunt your areas more often.