RE: Staying alert on stand...
It is hard to stay focused, but it seems like when you are not concentrating really hard that the deer seem to step out or appear. That is the magical thing to me, how they seem to just appear so silently. One second they are not there and the next they are. Once my mind starts to wander something catches me by surprise. I also never fail to hear a new sound in the wild either. It seems that every time I am out I hear something that I have never heard before.