I appreciate the advice, but I'm 99.999% sure that scent control wasn't the problem. I use dirt or pine scent (deer here bugger at dang near anything). The deer here, expecially the ones that have made it more than a year or so, are conditioned to look up into the trees--and everywhere else. There's a lot of bow hunters in this area (gobs of gun hunters), so they get smart quick or get eaten.

On a happier note, I took a break from making strings a while ago and rode down to the first spot I went to this season. Food plot looks kinda pitiful, only saw one set of half-way fresh tracks. BUT........I decided to mosey on over to another spot, within short walking distance. I really wasn't planning to hunt there this year, because after spending several hours in a stand there last year I didn't see a thing, and earlier scouting didn't look too promising.

I hunted it a lot last year because there were two oak trees near where three trails converged, and it's a bottleneck of woods between several fields--seems like an ideal spot, if the deer would just read the same books and articles that I have read!

Anyhow, I was looking around and only noticed one trail this year, but it was active--everything else is soaked, but this trail is pretty much walked "dry". Also saw a big pile of fresh doe dumplings smack in the middle of it--when I saw that, I left. Maybe tomorrow...........

Chad