First, I must say that I am a huge fan of your weekly videos and blogs. They are informational as well as fun and interesting to watch.

I am hunting a small piece of wooded land that I have learned is a deer highway to and from a small suburban woodland area. I have tons of trailcam pictures, sign(scrapes,scat, prints) and daytime sightings. I have created a “feeding area” where I placed sweet attractant during the summer and early fall and now have a mineral lick. All of this is not far from my stand.

During the summer I cleared some pre-existing trails to encourage the deer to travel on them and they are still visible. Cut shooting lanes to length of my effective shooting range. My problem is this, the deer aren’t using them. I made a path of least resistance but they choose to travel through thick brush and over fallen trees.

Should I re-clear the paths? Make the lanes they are using now less accessible(place a branch or natural obstacle across them)? Or maybe just move my stand? Also, why might they not be using these trails?

Thanks in advance, and safe hunting.