ORIGINAL: Vabowman
solo that I beieve.. But woud you say overall that deer in general move more often in the midwest than anywhere else... I can tell you this, I have some property that only a few hunt and it doesn't see hounds until late in the season...but the deer still only move very little, I mean sometimes you may se 8 or 12 in an evening, once a year, but average, you may see 1-3 every 2 sits if you are good..(rut not included) but the rut here isn't much better.
I don't know that it's much better or the fact that outside of So. IL...IL consist of mostly smaller tracts of timber, connected to other smaller tracts by fence lines and hedge rows...meaning if the deer are out in the surrounding fields feeding at night, come morning it's kind of easy to predict the travel routes to the bedding areas. I don't know how much wooded area Va. has, but if you have a huge area with let's say 200 deer inside this area, thereare SO many places for those deer to enter and exit from, out of view from a hunter. Where as the areas I hunt are 80 acres or less, surrounded by other 80 acres or less timber tracts. And even if you don't have deer walk within bow range, you will see deer most sits and can move your stand based on where you've been seeing these move in the morning and evening.