My list of a few tips
1. Use onlyunscented deoderant, soap, shampoo.

2. When you set up, always have your weapon in your hands, not laying beside you or leaning against a tree.

3. Keep your baited area baited. Don't just put out bait once or twice a week. Once deer find the bait, they will hit it almost every day, unless the have natural food available.

4. You will do better hunting over bait in the evening as opposed to morning.

5. If I were you, I'd set up as far as possible from the bait as you feel you can still hit the deer. This makes it less likely being spotted by the deer.

6. Practice, practice, practice. If you only get one shot the whole season, you want to make it count. Practice from field shooting positions not from a benchrest.

7. Listen to the birds, squirrels and chipmunks. Learn their warning calls by walking through the woods. and listening to the sounds they make when they see you. When you hear these same sounds in the distance, as you are waiting on stand,THEY SEE SOMETHING! It might be a fox, a person or it might be a deer. This has help me countless times, to get prepared for a shot and to focus my attention in the area I hear these warning calls.

8. After you get a deer, keep going out and scouting. If you scout now, you'll understand what deer are doing at that time of year ( during the season ) instead of before the season. Do your scouting so you might find a few more spots for next year. Alot of things change in the fall. Scouting in late summer is good to let you know what and how many deer are in the area. And they will stay in the same patterns for the early part of the season, but things will change quickly as fall progresses.

Farmers will be harvesting crops ( cornfields will disappear), Acorns will start falling,apples will be falling, new food will be available, hunting pressure will increase, the rut will be coming on and bucks will be more interested in does than in food. Things will change and deer's patterns will change.

9. Find white oak trees that are droppin acorns. White oaks have leaves that have the rounded lobes. (red oaks have pointed lobes on the leaves) White oaks only drop every 2nd or 3rd year. Redoaks every year.

Deer prefer the sweeter white oaks over the more bitter red oaks.
If you find a few white oaks that are dropping, this is an excellent place to hunt. Sometimes deer will be in and out and all around those acorns throughout the day. If you find a place like that, pack a lunch and try to hunt it all day.

Deer will hit red oaks but I've noticed they usually don't until later in the winter when everything else is gone. Remember where you saw all the red oak acorns early in the fall, and keep it in mind. This is a place to check out later in the winter when the snow is on.

I like hunting around apple trees also.

10. Look for funnel areas.These are also great places to ambush a deer. I like to hunt funnel areas that are leading back to a bedding area. Get in there several hours before daylite and wait to catch a deer coming back to bed down after its nite out and about.


Hope these help!