RE: Did you ever have a spot that went completely cold?
YUP, had the same type of deal happen. We called the place the petting zoo. You were always going to see deer. It was a monestary. Well they decided to build a barn/utility/store the tractors shed in this one strip of woods that saw lots of traffic. Mind you this was only a small percentage of the woods but it led to all sections. The day they poured the floors the woods went dead. They had crews in there doing stuff and all that, but the woods several hundred yards away went dead over night. Hunting became harder. We figured it would get back to normal the next year. NOT A strange deal for sure. The deer started traveling the open field we couldn't hunt right up against a neighborhood of yuppie houses. For years they had traveled the corridor.