RE: Please help a newbie
I'd hang a couple stands off some of the more heavily travelled trails. Bring a can call and try and call anything you see in the distance.
Find a low hanging branch and make a mock scrape. Use a big old branch to make it. I would hang a scent dripperover it. I would put active scrape scent init once November comes.
Sounds basically like your peice of land is a travel corridor. I bet the bucks will be moving through there once the rut gets going.