Four tree stands in place.

#1/ inside corner off apple orchard/field, near oak flat.

#2/  cedar bush with blow downs.

#3/  creek/swamp

#4/   trail to food plot  

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Sounds like a good selection of stands, are they positioned to hunt different wind directions?

Yes they are, good question. Which gives me options according to the predicted wind for the days hunt.

Oct. 12 Stand #1 Inside Corner

8:00am two does came in to my left, single file. I line up the second doe at 18 yards. Double lung shot, 150 yard recovery - 100 grn. Slick Trick. Cloudy,cool morning,40F,wind 10k NE.

With some venison in the freezer, I now wanted to take a nice buck with my remaining tag.

Oct. 18 Stand #1

8:30 am, two does and a fawn came right into the stand to sniff the mock scrape, five yards in front of the stand. Both does took turns sniffing the scape. I had broad side shots, twice. Passed on them. They ventured off, never spooked.
Buck urine in scrape.

Nov.7 Stand #1 The Seeking Phase is on here !

55F 24k wind SE

11:00am, a mature buck walks in behind me, to my left, 30 yards out, following a doe trail, nose to the ground, no clear shot. I tryed the grunt call on him but he did not appear to hear it. He stopped at an oak tree(50yrds out) to sniff at the base of it( I tryed the grunt call again) and then he carried on and then turn in towards a thicket infront of me at 50 yrds. As I learned later, he was continuing to follow the doe trail south.

He sure was brute, an 8 or 10 pointer, thick main beams. I remained in the stand until dark with no further deer sightings.  

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Nov.8 Stand #1

55F 10k wind SE sunny

7:00 am doe-in estrus in mock scrape
Walked into the stand with a scent drag line ( doe estrus) and climb into the stand with it still on. I then took it off and through it on a tree limb beside me.
10:00 am, I spot a deer coming in from the south on the same trail that the briuser left on yesterday. It's a fork horn and he's coming in and turns right headed straight for me. He walks right under me, sniffing around and then walks over to the scrape and gives it a sniff, looks around, sniffs a branch and then walks by me and heads north, likely following my scent drag trail. Another five yard broadside shot I decided to pass on.
By 1:00pm it was too warm and deer movement was shut down.  

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