Remember summer deer patterns are likely to
change come fall. What looks great now, may
not have the same traffic come Oct./Nov. We
use to do our scouting during summer months,
but some of the locations and trees we prepared
and setup looked completely different
come fall/early winter. Now we do 95% of our
scouting and stand work in Jan, Feb, & Mar.

Good advice on setting back off the trail. Make
sure when picking out a stand that you have
adequate background cover around and behind
your stand. With all the leaves now, it doesn' t
seem like that would be a concern, but you don' t
want to get skylined by a deer this fall.

I' d also checked out some natural funnels, like
creek crossings, fence crossings, and inside/outside
corners. Deer will use these year around.

Good luck
TB