It would make hunting a lot easier if the deer would call and let you know where they’re going to be going the next day, but no wishful thinking is going to make that happen. Deer do not like people and this makes it tough for hunters to pattern them. It can take a lot of time and effort to figure out what the deer are doing on a fairly regular basis. One thing you cannot rely on is a deer trail for patterns. This may seem counterintuitive but it is true. You can put a trail camera up on a trail and expect to see countless amounts of deer walking by but that won’t be the case. Deer are not restricted to trails, they can move wherever they like. If you’ve ever watched them from a stand you know that they do. Trail cameras are a useful tool for seeing the kinds of bucks that are in the area but they are not reliable enough to establish patterns with them. What is necessary is to spend the time and watch them in the off season. Scouting in early spring allows you to see through the woods more clearly without all the leaf cover from the trees. When sitting and watching deer movements, it’s important to get a feel for what directions they tend to come out of in the evenings and in the mornings. Once you’ve established this, you can gain a clearer idea of a more centralized location to place stands. This approach takes time and commitment but it’s much more productive to do this than to blindly set up tree stands only to move them all to different locations during the hunting season.
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