It really depends. At my property in PA I'm lucky enough to have some terrain features that force them to walk in a certain area, and unless I'm nanny whacking on a food plot these are the areas I focus on. These areas the deer are VERY predictable. Rob has seen this first hand when he hunted a funnel that comes out of a huge mast producing hardwood flat onto a narrow shelf on a side hill. That side hill that runs the majority of the property and the stream below it, combined with the very specific agricultural and food plot feedingareas force them to move in certain ways that are easy to predict. I'm lucky to have this. I'd say 80-90% of the time I see deer there it is as predicted and the wind works for me.

Now Dan's place in NY is a bit different, the woods are much bigger there and have a lot less terrain features and more pressure.You never really know where they will come from but there are still certain terrain features there as well that at least make them move in a certain direction, even if for a short amount of time. These again are the places I like to focus my time on, and where I have had the most success. I'd say maybe 50-70% of the time when I see deer there it is as I planned and the wind works for me.

The other thing I've noticed and really started paying attention to in the last 2x years.......the closer Ihunt to a deer's final destination the less predictable I find their movement, and the more alert they seem to be as well. Just an observation.