Good stuff Greg. I tageda big 8in Kentucky back in the 80's that was using a10 acre brier thicket as a bedding area and travel route, you would not have sent a dog in there for anything. Even though there were several trails around the large scrape I found, there were 2 barely visible trails (you could only tell by the way the limbs were facing on the picker bushes) going into and comingof the thicket. I was amazed at how easy the buck slid through the thicket when he appeared, and was sure glad he went in the direction he was facing and not where he had come from when I double lunged him.