Jimimac

Nice deer you got. Congratulations!

Stay out of the open woods and hunt the thick stuff. That's often overlooked because guys like to see the landscape while in reality the deer spend the vast majority of their time in the thickets IMO. Not as good of a view, but you'll get better results just as you have this season. Congrats again.

Ptrbilt

That's about what I did. In this case the thick stuff was a lot of sappling trees and briars. It was an area that had been clear cut sometime ago with a very defined line between the new growth and the old growth. None of the new growth had trees big enough to climb. I set up within ten yards of the line overlooking the new growth. It has a well defined hiking trail running through it. My spot gave me the opportunity to watch down the trail as well as into the thick stuff. This deer came up parallel to the hiking trail from the thickets.

Hunterbrum

Congrats on the first.

arkbwhtr1

Good job Ptrbilt!! The first one is always sweet!!!