Ok, we have two full weeks left in the PA Archery season, and I'm starting to enter panic mode I've already filled my doe tag which I wanted to do before the rut started to begin, so I'm happy I can just concentrate on the boys now. However, I'm becoming a little indecisive and losing a bit of confidence in my current stand locations. Let me show you and arial of my land (I've already posted this, but I want to reference it again).



The yellow dots are my stand locations, the red border is my property line. Now, I was just starting to see some young bucks for the first time Saturday chasing in the bottom right area of my property (near the food plot stand and the stand just southeast of it). Friday night, my uncle spotted a very nice 8-10point cross our driveway (you can see my driveway winding in the bottom of the picture within the red boundry). The deer crossed (at 5:30pm) what I figure to be somewhere inbetween the two stands I have identified there in the lower right hand corner. Sat morning I found two nice rubs JUST south of the stand in the far bottom right (the one bordering the property ling and the field), so I know there's a decent buck in this area. This is also where I had a 4pt come within 5 yards of me during a still hunt. I know the does bed toward the bottom edge of the field in the far bottom right of this picture (even though it's off the property line, I have permission from the land owner to scout on it, just not hunt). Hunting out of the stand in the lower right hand I've seen does come out into that field off the property every time. No bucks yet, but instinct is telling me that as long as the does keep coming, the bucks will too. However, I'm leary of this stand due to the fact that looking at the arial and scouting sign, it just doesn't seem like a place a buck would travel, and the lack of sign makes it all the more worse. I shot my last archery buck in 2003 out of this stand, and he came down from the north chasing does, so this site has always kind of attracted me back, although there doesnt seem to be anything that makes this site stand out. Basically my reasons for keeping the stand site are: A: Does do come into the field, although haven't fed into the woods on my line yet). B: I shot my last buck in this area.


Ok, on tow my 2nd "hopeful honeyhole". The stand in between bedding areas in the upper left (right near the potential stand site). This place has really never shown too much sign as far as rubs/scrapes, but it's thick, I see does there a lot (although I'll get to that in a minute), and the fact that during the 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002, and 2006 seasons I've seen at least one shooted buck in there. Problem is, I was busted there about 3 weeks ago (I was getting down at last light and there were a group of does that snuck in behind me and I never knew they were there). I let the area sit for a week, and have hunted it occasionally, but since then I haven't seen a deer. This was also the site where I shot my doe this season.

Ok, I know I'm rambling, but I feel like I'm losing time, and not seeing enough to convince me something is going to present itself, so what do you guys think. My two sites I expanded on our my "prime" evening stands. The food plot stands are mostly morning sites, so I won't elaborate much on them. Many of you commented on the finger of woods jutting in between the two corn fields. On paper that looks to be a textbook site, but the finger is only about 10-15yds wide and I've never seen too much in there. I do have a trail camera in there, and I will be checking it soon. I just don't feel like they're in the corn a whole lot yet. So, my point being, what would you guys do? Abandon the sites and try new ones, or keep hunting the ones I have and hope for the best?

If I do keep hunting the stands, how often would you suggest hunting these each consecutively (assuming the wind is right)? One, two, three, as many as it takes? I have a tendency to hunt a stand no more than two days in a row before I really lose confidence in it. Is this too hasty? Again, sorry for the long winded post, I'm just looking for some advice. Thanks guys.