Only way for me to go this distance in the dark to get to stand. The stand is up the ridge where the wiser deer will use the thermal from the creek. If they are bedded down I can enter my stand without disturbing them. Im planning on hunting all day, another reason for the reflective tacks to get out without traveling through any of their trails or bedding.

My main concern was that I have never strictly hunted for mast. I have usually set up along trails and bleated or waited it out. I am not used to the deep woods acivity of feeding on mast. I understand the deer to be active up until an hour or two after sunup, and then bed, give them several hours and they are back up for the afternoon feed.

Either way I may spook something along the way, but it i my chance at a P&Y, since the yearlings, does, and occasional 4 points will run th edges of fields in the morning or afternoon. The guys Im after are about another half mile in, but my approach is from the opposite from bedding.