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BowEd:
You bet Swamp Thang I'm sure the wolf's got the same idea you do.Hogs I'm sure were good practice.Sounds like fun for sure.It can be frustrating sitting for days and days looking at deer from a distance I know.Some enviornment is just plain harder to get close than others that's for sure.Vast wide open areas especially.Choke points are great.Food source areas.Then scrapes etc.If I see a lot of does the bucks will come eventually.If that's necessary to some.
Seems like sometimes deer hunting can be a full time job for a short time anyway setting scenarios up for a shot.Even here in easy hunting street Iowa things are'nt always so easy.

Aaron H:
I hunt public land, and I don't have a whole lot of time to get out and scout.  What I like to do, is do a lot of my primary scouting using satellite imagery ( Google earth, Bing maps ), you can use it to narrow down your hunting area to key choke points if you understand the way deer typically move. You can also zoom in so close that you can find water and food sources.  Use satellite along with topography maps and you can get a big area narrowed down pretty quickly.  Of course you still need to put your feet on the ground and do some real field scouting before taking up your bow.

BowEd:
You bet Aaron.A person's got to remember deer will follow paths of least resistance too.Natural barriers etc.Seems like the deer here travel the sunken washes a lot.
Public hunting I always end up in the most remote areas in those places.The harder to get to places.To stay away from traffic.Lots of hunters won't want to do that and that's where they are most times too.A portable tree stand is used or some natural type ground blind.There are close to 15,000 public hunting acres here 10 miles from me mostly all in one chunk that make that possible to do here.Those are remote enough areas you never know what will come by.

Swamp Thang:
See I'm so terrible at deer hunting, I went today....still found the hogs  :o

Urufu_Shinjiro:
I'm hoping to learn enough, practice enough to go out next year. In the meantime I'm hoping the processor in my wife's home town is selling unclaimed deer meat again, year before last got a whole deer, some ground, backstrap, some other cuts, for like $60.

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