No doubt about if jd, they doeat on cropbut while your long gone. I have similar problems here but find myself moving closer and closer to where the deer are bedding. Lots of them big buggers don't get up until there is 10 minutes of shooting time left depeding on the pressure they have had. I hate hunting a bucks bedroom for fear of spooking them but to kill a buck who is almost always nocturnal thats bout all you can do. The land my big boy was on this fall i drive by it everyday in summer on my way to work at the bee house and never once did i see that deer. He hung up in a river flat/swampy area and never showed himself once out in the crop until the late stages of the rut. If a guy can figure one of these mosters out its not hard to pull it off because they always do the same thing whereas in the rut tail takes over the mind. But patterning a big boycan often take a guy years before they can figure it out. Ask shed33, he has hunted deer for a few years b4 he has eventually connected. He killed his pig a 80 yards or so away from its bed, had video and previous sheds from him. Homework does pay off, for those who are paitent enough to do it.