Wonder if you guys could shed some light on this. I was going for a stroll the other day after my morning hunt. I decided to go through this batch of thickets/hardwoods that' s probably about 8-10 acres or so. I hunt on 300 acres of land that is mostly food plots (cut corn, soybeans, swail, etc.......) There are hedges and some hardwoods here and there. Anyway after the orange people invade the woods on my property and the bordering properties, the deer sightings have been nill. They just won' t come out in the open now.
So I' ve been hunting this batch of thickets that I' ve found. This joint is like nothing I' ve seen before. There are runs (highways) and crossings and funnels like you' ve never seen. I stumbled on some scrapes and rubs here and there and I' m sure there' s a lot more, I just didn' t look that hard. I was just amazed by all the tracks and trails through this place. The thing is I haven' t seen a single deer go through there. I' ve set up in a few different places where 4 or 5 of these runs cross.
Couple of bad things are:
1. there' s a road about 200 yards on the west
2. A wide open grassy field about 100 yard to the east
3. Posted land about 500 yards to the south (where I think they bed)
4. a road to the North

It' s a small piece, but man what a highway!! Unfortunately I am kinda restricted to where I can hunt this little piece due to the geographics. My question is, do you think they just use this little place strictly during the night time hours heading from bed to food or viseversa? What are my chances of seeing something come through this during the daylight hours? Or should I resort to plan M? I realize it' s kinda tough to visualize my description and hard to comment unless you see it for yourself, but any advice would help.
One more thing.... there' s a giant cliff to the east of this before it enters the grassy field and there' s a wide creek alongside the road. thanks