RE: Thick woods
When I hunt high, I prefer to find a Quakey or Pine bowl between two ridges and spot and stock. There isn't a lot of thick brush in the bowls.
In Washington State where the timber has been cut it's all over grown with black berry bushes. I like to forget the times I've had to drag a deer out of the black berries. It's almost as bad as the cactus here in Texas.