Food source? Bedding areas? Water source? Surronding areas (land type, hunted, etc)? Can u access the land various ways? Do other hunt the same land?
I'd be careful about getting too aggressive. I mean that can be great advice...it CAN BE but isn't always the solution. Sounds like you bump an aweful lot of deer which kinda indicates to me that maybe you're already getting too deep into their cover. The buck I lost this year I have another thread going on about now, was shot chasing a doe out of heavy cover into a neighbors effin pasture and the buck I shot this year came across a crp field following a doe and two young bucks. I'm not saying disregard the suggestion to be more aggressive, I'm just saying...not necissarily and then again sometimes being "more aggressive" can be best approached by getting in the stand earlier and staying later. It's a fine line.
10 years without a deer is a sign of doing something wrong. Are you trying for any deer or are you trying to harvest mature deer and getting busted by them? Pulling back on a young deer shouldn't be a 10 year problem for anyone. What kind of hours do you hunt? Several feeders on 110 acres, how many is several and what kind of feeders? What does the 110 acres entail? Any aerial photos? You don't have turrets do you? not a serious question
Getting more aggressive is the only way I've been able to kill deer with a bow. Other wise it's been sit and watch them from a distance an hope they wonder my way. Let me say this also. You have to be way more careful while being more aggressive. Scent control is key but, hunt the wind, hunt weather fronts, moon phases and watch your entry and exit routs. Hunt less and smarter. I also suggest trying hunting travel corridors between food and doe bedding areas if possible. If you have been busted at a feeder, I feel like deer will associate a feeder with danger I could be wrong on this one as I have known a lot of hunters to take deer at a feeder. I just haven't had any luck harvesting over corn. Had a lot come in just before shooting light eat and leave without ever being able to draw back on one. That's just been my experience with bait. I suggest to hunt aggressively smarter if that makes sense. Get in the stand an hour before daylight and stay till 10:00am at least. In the afternoons get in by 2:30pm and don't Leave till after dark.
