New deer hunter looking for advice

This is Niagara region and the deer see a whole lot more humans than one thinks. Hunting areas are small and the population dense. Where I shot my deer the farmer was cutting wood all week and pulling it out with a tractor.

My deer cam has taken pictures of deer one or two hours after I downloaded pictures.

 
Part of your problem are your pictures... Meaning you are moving all over the area you are hunting leaving scent all over and disturbing the environment... Deer live there 24/365... They KNOW when something isn't right... Your best chance to get a deer is to slip into an area, put up a stand and hunt it... Each subsequent use of that stand diminishes your chance of success... Remember the deer are patterning you too! They will generally figure out your movement BEFORE you figure out theirs. We hunt in the North and are blessed with a lot of land, but fewer deer... We do not hunt from the same stand location twice in a single season... We move every morning and every evening... This way we can't be patterned... And score consistently... Wind is your best friend and worst enemy (scent-lok type products help but nothing is fool proof). If I were you, I would move closer to (but not in) the bedding area, and away from the food source... You may see fewer deer this way, but they will be more relaxed, closer, shootable... But "TI" is critical... Don't give up, get out. It takes time to learn deer behaviour... Read all you can, but it takes years to apply it... Keep at it... When you do score the satisfaction will be proportionate to the effort you put into it.
 
Well second deer down....I've run out of tags...
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P.s. I have hunted out of the same stand for over eight years, one year I got three.

Key is to know your area. Deer 40 km away may behave totally different then the deer in your area.

That's why you have to invest a whole lot of time getting to know your area and the animals in it.

I have gone to my stand every weekend since the beginning of sept. I have hunted every sat and the holiday Monday. Still shot two deer out of it.
 
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Thanks for all the help guys! I got a doe on one cam Sat AM. And after sitting Sat morning until 10am and seeing nothing I went to scout the other side of the property for a place to set up a ground blind for a bad wind. I found what seems to be an active trail with a couple small tracks and a large 4 -5" track going into the bean field coming from an area full of low branch pines! I'm putting up a cam on the trail this week!!
 
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