Dan, that thicket trick is absolutly true. I have set up in ipen woods on the edge of a thicket, I have yet to see a doe there in the AM, and its only been bucks coming through and scent checking the corners and looking out in the woods for does. THe spot of my only mature bck spotting this year, and he stuck around just long enough for me to decide I wasnt going to be happ with the half rack, if he has a chance of getting bigger next year.

I also learned quantity over quality. Id rather see bigger deer than mroe deer.