I was thinking last night about where I wanted to concentrate the first few days of turkey season. I have a spot that's been REALLY good to me. I've shot 3 deer out of one tree (including my first) and my first bow bird was shot about 20 yds from that tree. Gotta love that spot.

I was wondering how much (if any) the intrusion would mean to my deer hunting. I suppose the answers would most likely lean towards "none". I agree.

Then I got to thinking about it further.......

We go into our woods: shed hunting; scouting; setting game cams; checking game cams; turkey hunting; small game hunting; checking game cams; Putting out minerals; setting stands; clearing lanes; hunting; checking game cams;moving stands.....and YET we still take mature deer off these lands.

If the ever elusive mature whitetail is SO finicky.......why does he seemingly tolerate these things.....yet continue to call this place "home"?

Other than turkey hunting, replenishing my mineral sites....and checking a game cam on the outskirts of my hunting land about 4 times a year........I don't go in there unless I'm hunting. I really don't think it makes a hill of beans difference, though. D&DH had a show a few months ago that outlined how difficult it would be to displace a matur ebuck from his home range.

I believe every word of it.