Some of the things said here is really funny. I am and have for 6 years been hunting 20 acres around my home. I am retired so have time to do things like walk my dogs in the woods every morning and every evening. We have our set trails that we go on each day and a couple we do every so often. I also will stop and PEE when the call arrives where ever I am. I have deer that will stand 10 feet off the trail and allow the dogs and I to go by with out running. Have one that started following us last spring.
I am picky so won't shoot just any old deer it has to be an 8 point or better or wounded like a spike I shot a couple years ago.
So being in the woods isn't a big deal with the deer.

Their are Keys. One big one is where they bed, where they feed and the route to the corn field or soy beans they are feeding on and realize many deer will be in the corn and never come out once it is tall enough they can lay down in there and not be seen.
A very important Key during Firearm season IN MICHIGAN is where the deer run to when all the city guys with all the strange smells tramping thru the woods starting at 5:00 AM even though legal hours are not till about 7:00AM spook the deer to. Then they get cold sitting in tree stands in the wind so are down by 8 AM walking around at a good clip to get warm once again spooking deer with their peperoni breath gas fumes on there clothes cause they didn't put fuel in the truck/car before hand.
The deer come and bed down in my woods cause the guy there when he is out with his dogs talks to them and when they lay in the lawn he doesn't run them off.


Yup got to be one huge blind cluts not to see a deer in 5 years of hunting in a woods these days. I can see it now wearing a flashing red lite on the hat and a serien going so no one shoots them walking thru the woods LOL


Al