It depends...I take hunters to our family farms in eastern NC, have had them since the mid-60s...We have some stands that are just "hot"...Call them travel routes, pinch points or whatever, bucks just seem to come through these areas...When you hunt an area the local does would be the ones to know, a good buck may have come from a few miles away looking for ladies...He could easily show up anytime...Many times we have killed nice bucks from stands on back to back days...
I don't run away from proven hot spots...