Originally Posted by DaveH

Things can go south in a hurry. I pretty much hunt just 3 places. Literally overnight things changed. My best place is quite small, so I try to hunt it sparingly to avoid spooking the deer away. However, the landowner told me to avoid it for a while because her son is going to hunt there. He has never hunted deer and will be using a gun (gun seasons aren't open for another week and a half). He knows nothing about camo and scent control and will pretty much shoot at anything brown I suspect. It will ruin the area until the real gun seasons begin (just as the rut kicked into high gear). My 2nd place has nothing but mature poplar trees to hunt (no cover) and is useless with a NW wind which is what we have been getting and will continue to get for the forseeable future. And now my neighbor's dogs have resumed running through my property every day. They used to control that years ago and now that it's begun again, they haven't stopped it even though I've called them repeatedly about it. We have a good relationship with them - except for these dogs ruining my place for hunting. So suddenly, I need to make my place work ... with dogs under my stand at times.