Years ago, some friends and I arranged to have some timber company land available to us alone. Scouting it, I found a stand already built, overlooking a fresh scrape. I sat in that stand three days running, and never saw a deer. I would sit there until about 11:00, come down and then come back around 5:00 PM.Was on an aluminum ladder about 9' up nailing a duck-house to a post out in the open by a pond around 11:30 when a nice 8 pt suddenly hops out of the woods and runs straight at me!