RESIST the urge to walk all over your property every time you go out there. You are just satisfying your own curiosity, which based on your scouting already requires no further exploration. The more you encroach on the place and stink it up, the better chance you have of pushing the deer out of the area.

Forget the attractants and calls - focus on keeping yourself downwind of the areas that you feel the deer are most likely to move in. If the wind is "wrong" for that day, hunt from another angle - don't just think that you have to get in your stand because that's the only place you've got. It's usually better to be on the ground and have the wind right than be up a tree but the wind blowing your scent into the hunting area.

On such a small tract of land, you don't want to do things that will call attention to yourself - work on being as "invisible" as possible, and that includes such tiny details as where/how you park your vehicle (killing your headlights when you arrive in the predawn, etc.) Instead of evaluating the deer, evaluate yourself with questions like "What things do I do that would alert a deer to my prescence?"

The deer will come. Get in the woods and enjoy the moment.

Last edited by 7MM-08; 12/17/10 08:19 AM.