I also want to add that I went to using a climber most of this year so that deer didn't pattern my permanent spots. I would pick a different tree many acres away for each hunt. I never hunted the same woods more than twice a week.

So if it was 80 acres wood, I would hunt the west side once, then the east side the next. North, then South.

Mixing in different property's to let land rest as much as possible.

But I don't know why I did that. I ran into other hunters weekly (on private land).

And at night I would come out of some woods as the Coon hunters were coming in with there dogs.

Then one day I had the squirrel hunters coming by as I was sitting for hours on a great spot.

Then we can't forget that all our woods have turkey and we have a ton of turkey hunters now that pop guns off in April in the deep woods.

I guess it is amazing any animal gets rest anymore...lol