So, let's say for the sake of argument that you're hunting a fairly large chunk of land (2500 acres +). Going further, this is an area that has no agricultural land, and very little in the line of great nutrition... No fields. Lots of immature timber. Very few mast-producers.

So, in the course of your wanderings, you stumble into a VERY heavy winter yarding area. An area that's clearly holding a minimum of 20-30 deer. The area is replete with greenbrier, pine, black cherry and multiflora rose thicket.

The tree canopy in this particular area is quite high, and there are definitely enough gaps to bowhunt it effectively. There isn't much mature timber in the area, but this is one of those few select areas that have both climbable trees and sufficient cover to hold deer.

The ridge is hemmed-in between a large swamp and a long, narrow lake. One long, narrow ridge. A nice bottleneck for sure.

The sign reads that there was some buck activity through the area in the fall. Some. Not much. No sign of any hunters.

A walk-through of the area also reveals that there should probably be at least a few deer who will continue to utilize this pocket as a bedding area 24-7-365. There are definitely some geographic formations that will funnel any deer traffic and make it easy to pick off a trolling buck.

I've locateda modest amount of verybig buck sign in some of the adjoining areas - and this could be an area that might see some big buck traffic, once November rolls around.

What is the best approach?

Remember, this area is well-off the beaten path, a solid 1-hr hike, and I'm presuming that these deer are fairly pressure-sensitive.