I am fortunate to occasionally have access to some large private tracts of lightly hunted land in NY. Many times I hunt them, it may be my first time stepping foot on the property.
If I am looking to fill my doe tags I will simply still hunt the property. Not only can I cover alot of ground, I also find that still hunting is the most enjoyable form of hunting for me.
Since there is enough land available to me that I don't need to worry about "burning out" a particular area I am free to hunt as I please.
The best part about hunting in this manner is being able to see first hand how my presence in an area on one day effects the deers activity the next. In some cases I may still hunt some areas on 4 or 5 consecutive days if I feel the land still has good potential.
I can tell you from experience, I notice very little effect on the deers natural movements after only one visit through an area. In most cases I will find deer in almost exactly the same spots,and in the same numbers, if I return to an area on the second day.
However, after the second day and each day there after I will notice a big effect on deer sightings and movements.
The point of this story being, deer do not seem to change their natural rythms unless they are repeatedly disrupted. There are simply too many random stimuli in the woods for a deer to respond to any single one of them each time. It takes repeated disruptions to truelly alter their day to day activities.
It is a simple matter of natural selection. If a deer changed its natural behavior every time it was disturbed by an outside force, it would not be able to concentrate on its simplest biological needs.
