RE: Deer memory
I shot a nice OLD buck last year and learned something tracking him in the process. The deer went off my propery and down an old trail on the property across from me. About 50 yards from an old wooden stand that was falling down, the deer made a wide loop off the trail and then got back in the old road about 50-70 yards on the other side of this stand! My neighbor hasn' t hunted that stand he told me in 2 years and by the condition of the stand, no one else has either. That has made me wonder how many old deer know exactly where my fixed stands are. But, I have also hunted the same stand alot and then near the end of the season, seen or killed a nice deer that I had never seen all season and didn' t know he was there so who knows.