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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5122161" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Exactly. Sadly, I'm not smart enough to figure out why deer do the things they do, but many years of observation have taught me - in ridge-and-hollow terrain - deer prefer to use certain terrain features to move across the landscape. I simply "hunt the odds." I try to get stands up on as many "preferred" terrain features as possible, and then rotate through as many of those different locations as possible over the course of a season. On any given day, I use wind direction and "gut feeling" to choose which stand I will hunt. And by wind direction, I mean I eliminate stand sites for that hunt that would produce the lowest odds of success from that stand. For example, if a stand is located to cover a low spot in a long narrow north-south oriented ridge, I don't want a wind blowing north or south along the ridge-top. That wind direction wouldn't guarantee I wouldn't see a deer from that stand, but it would certainly lower the odds.</p><p></p><p>In ridge-and-hollow hardwoods, I have NEVER patterned a buck to the point I feel strongly he will walk through a particular location on a particular day. They just aren't that patternable in that habitat/terrain. So I just play the highest odds locations, and try to move around a lot to keep deer from patterning me. Hopefully, if I roll the dice enough, they will eventually come up all sixes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5122161, member: 17"] Exactly. Sadly, I'm not smart enough to figure out why deer do the things they do, but many years of observation have taught me - in ridge-and-hollow terrain - deer prefer to use certain terrain features to move across the landscape. I simply "hunt the odds." I try to get stands up on as many "preferred" terrain features as possible, and then rotate through as many of those different locations as possible over the course of a season. On any given day, I use wind direction and "gut feeling" to choose which stand I will hunt. And by wind direction, I mean I eliminate stand sites for that hunt that would produce the lowest odds of success from that stand. For example, if a stand is located to cover a low spot in a long narrow north-south oriented ridge, I don't want a wind blowing north or south along the ridge-top. That wind direction wouldn't guarantee I wouldn't see a deer from that stand, but it would certainly lower the odds. In ridge-and-hollow hardwoods, I have NEVER patterned a buck to the point I feel strongly he will walk through a particular location on a particular day. They just aren't that patternable in that habitat/terrain. So I just play the highest odds locations, and try to move around a lot to keep deer from patterning me. Hopefully, if I roll the dice enough, they will eventually come up all sixes. [/QUOTE]
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