Ghillie - A little off topic, but I have to ask ........ in the pic at post #24, do you see much deer travel / activity in woods that are as wide open as the woods in that pic ?? I don't want to sound like I'm shaming those woods - I'm not. I only ask because at our place, deer won't travel through open woods like in the pic. That has been a problem we've been trying to correct with logging / sunlighting / re-planting seedlings. We had an area of woods that had no ground-level cover / browse, and we didn't even see tracks in that area at all. Deer " ghost-town ". I realize different regions have different available cover, deer preferences, etc. Just wondering what the norm is there.
Great pic of a good buck, though !!!