When talking about deer hunting there is just so much variety of habitats. I am sure some or the Northwoods WT are in heavy timber and certainly a southern swamp can be a tangle. I have looked for Coues WT in AZ and that is thick country with tiny deer.

Have done some ground-bled hunting. Best one was between a VW Beetle and a riding lawnmower in a barn. Got that doe!.

It's a chess game, really. I think that is the appeal. Which may be why I much prefer stream trout, or lake sunfish, to just about any other fish. You know exactly where to look, you know exactly where you want to be, and hope the quarry cooperates.

My bowhunting mentor was once chasing a forked horn BT above his house. Had it "patterned". So, he lay down in the ditch beside the road and waited for the deer to cross here he always did. Nothing happened. So, he got up to leave, turned around, and there he was on the other side of the road. Jim let him go as he did was not going to take him by accident.