Good post Magic. I have been hunting a particular spot this year and have finally started to put some of the pieces together. I am a slow learner I believe. Well I started to think while on stand this morning and freezing....all of the deer I have seen have been walking to the south and west in the morning. Hmmmm. So I got down today at 9am and told myself I was going to find out where those deer were moving even if I bumped them. I would just chalk it up as knowledge gained. So I get down at 9 and start still hunting. At 9:15 I see two doe walking southwest but they get directly downwind of me and trot off after I was about 60 yards away.

I look out into the wide open and see "nothing" that would lead me to believe deer would bed in that area. I am talking a good 400-500 yard stretch down by a creek that was completely void of any real cover. As I round one of the hills I was walking I look down and see a 40 yard x 20 yard tiny patch of mountain laurel. I said to myself, "no way". As I close the distance on that little patch of cover, a dandy of a buck jump out with a doe and they sprint off. They were bedding on the south side of some big hills with a cold north wind blowing over them. Point of the story, you are right...sometimes some little treasures exist in places you would never think.