hunt long and hard.......hunt smart.....you got to hunt 10 times smarter that late in the year...change tactics to something thats dang near foolproof...like a drive that always works well or a still hunt path that usually produces.....or your very best deer stand that you always seem to see deer at....have confidance in whatever you choose and stay alert....tomarows the last day for me for the year....late flintlock season.....still hunting antlers....shot 2 doe already but now its horns or nothing....i cant wait....ill be hunting from 11am till dark.....i worked till 12 tonight and dont want to get up and hunt all day......and the guy that is the main leader is a farmer so he does his farm chores before we hunt...no need to get up early to drive deer.....we have about 10 guys or so....maybe only 6-8 this late in the year....only maybe 3 of us shooting....we been seeing lots of deer....but i havent had an antlered one come by me in range of the flinter yet.....hopefully tomarow......we know theres some left.....even though we took about 15 bucks and about 20 deer from the areas we hunt this year.....thats about a group of 15 of us or so.....youd think its easy to hunt like we do but theres alot of scouting and planning and we cover more land then any hunter i know in a day.....soon as the drive is done we are in the trucks off to the next spot.....and the drives take over an hour to cover usually......they are long drives......but usually the posters see something..the drive leader did alot of work to find these good drives and the best ways to put them on.....it works for us.....only this late they are very smart......we been doing crazy things like doing them backwards or from a diffrent side and crazy things the deer wouldnt expect from us......also hitting areas we havent hit hard or the outskirts where we may chased them into the day before.....cant wait for tomarow.....good luck to you