RE: While we are talking strategy.
I do my best to not cross them, but sometimes it's simply unavoidable. When I do have to cross them, I DO NOT step on them. I stay as far off of them as possible.
One place I hunt is big woods, and the deer literally come from anywhere. I am YET to see a deer trail in those woods. Somewhere, a deer will cross my entry/exit path, there's simply no way around it.....Well, unless I parachute in.....