Hillbilly, I can relate to what your saying, and have asked the same question your asking on here in years past, and got pretty generic answers, "Find the bedding areas" "find what they are eating" Its not that easy, and I've simple started to learn from trial by error. My farm is much like you describe, nothing but acres and acres of oaks, and even this year with no white oak acorns at all they are still hitting red oak acorns, and can and will be feeding anywhere. I have several food plots, but as soon as the acorns dropped they almost stopped hitting the plots, and thee is absolutely no pattern to their movements. I can see deer almost every time I go to a stand, but also almost never see two deer travel the same direction, or trail. We also have clearcuts on all the surrounding properties, and have looked into those trying to find bedding areas, but frome what Im finding is the deer on my farm arent bedding in the clearcuts, but I do find intermittent beds on ridge point, but nothing good enough to warrant putting a stand on it. Im sorry I can help much on the subject, but I agree with you, that it is some tough hunting. When they feed and bed just wherever the feel like it, its hard to pinpoint anything. I guess Im lucky enough to have my own place, and can spend year after year putting together info from years past and just have learned certain places that funnel movement and raises my odds a little. and spend my time there. Good luck.