Thanks for your response ampahunter, lots of good Info but I've got to ask you about what I quoted above. What good Is finding bedding and feeding area's In the winter If there yarded up deer from miles away? As you know the northern regions get lots of snow and thus deer yard up from miles away on food sources. Many of these deer have never been In your woods before and may never again unless there's ample food there next year and the snow Is deep again. What I'm trying to say Is the area's where deer don't group up your above logic would make more sense to me then being them are your home deer and not deer from miles away that are never In your woods during the hunting season.