I think the whole "patterning deer" idea has more or less validity depending on the type of country you hunt. When I hunt some eastern Montana areas, with limited cover, patterning deer seems like a useful enterprise. However, where I live, in western MT, we have cover out the wazoo. Any deer that walks out of a cropfield has approx. 6 million acres of continuous cover to choose from, and thus patterning becomes a pretty academic exercise. Your "pattern" means a deer walks through this funnel once every week. I suspect this is the case in about any big woods habitat from WA to ME.