That's the exact problem I have up in northern MI where my hunting property is located. There is absolutely no way you can pattern a buck because of so many bedding areas and places they can feed. The only buck I've ever seen more than once up there since I bought the place in 1973 was a spike a few years ago that I ended up shooting when he came out the last night of the season after I had passed on him a couple nights before that out of the same treestand.