try a ground blind I would never have believed untill I did this past week I got one from my mother in law and decided to use last week after being tired of a sore back form hiking a mile or better with that heavy thing, and I just set it up to relax and hide from my wife nothing around it No extra cover nothing and right when I was going to get out and leave I decided to text my buddy and dee what he's seeing and Not like me at all but also had a smoke and had 2 deer walk up to me at 20 feet with the wind blowing right at them and never looked at me once !!!! go figure I did everything I wasn't supposed to do or ever did and had a momma doe and her yearling and just watched them for a good 45 minutes eatin acorns never once alerted to me or my smoking. (PS I Never smoked while hunting until that day) Since then I have sat in it 3 more times and see moreDeer than on the ground and the weird thing Was they kept looking up in the trree's ! I guess thats why unless I am 25 ft or better I always get busted and I have 4 differnet camo patterns sio I am very attentive to where I am sitting and what camo I wear I am going to have to agree with the artical I read reguarding deer being very adaptive to being shot at from the trees so for the sake of my back and the sudden Burst of deer sightings I am gona go more with a blind after the leaves fall give that a shot and I have the G@ blind for 59 bucks so it isn't that exspensive primos $400 blind I am convinced they work great give it a shot as far as ground stalking I have seen 13 so far the trick I find is to walk 2-5 steps and find a spot to hide like behind a tree wait 5 min or so then walk a bit more and just keep doing that Good Luck