What are the things you look for in your scouting/stand hanging/hunting techniques that are more than just Food/Water, Bedding, and Rutting?
Where the deer are....and where they're gonna be....based on the three things you mentioned and past experiences on the land I'm hunting.
With me gaining access to new lands, this year, I'll be looking for where/what they're eating, FIRST. I can sight them back towards their bedding areas to figure that out via observation stand hunting.
That'll lead to No. 3 (rut).....and where I'll set up during that time. I've got the last part licked on one property. I need to know the first two things to find that out on the new grounds.
I'm OK with hunting observtion type stand son the new gorunds all season, if need be, to learn these things. I have places to go where I already know deer will frequent if I just want to kill a deer.