i feel ya...if i have ta stalk in leaves, i just walk when the deer walks..when it looks, i am very still....one time we stared at each other fer 20 minutes...if i didnt have a watch, i'd be sayin it was an hour...after a bit..when it walked i would tooo, and a lil while later it dismissed me as a thret and i could get an xtra step in...same as you have 40 acres, and i went a lil too fast and scared him off tryin to beat him to the property line.(since my neighbor will lemme track on his land)..and he str8 busted me...so i took off runnin after him lol...long story short i gotta bunch of thorns and sticks to the face and i was real tired!!!lol no deer...he came back the next day on the cam