Jim; I use the game trails, but stick with just one, that I don't think the deer will be using to come by the place I will stand. Here's a tip for Not spooking them. Put a couple of drops of Doe-In-Heat scent on the insteps of your shoes or boots( I like to wear rubber boots when the weather permts, simply because rubber lets skin rafts slide off and doesn't hold scent well, UNLESS its applied wet! ) I have had bucks follow my tracks down a trail and walk right up to me standing on the ground, next to a small tree so that the branches help break up my outline. I think getting a buck within 6 feet is close enough for anyone, don't you?
Oh, I also use Baking soda( Good ole' Arm 'N' Hammer) to dust the crotch of my jeans, or insulated coveralls, and the back of my hands, and wrists, to eliminate as much of my scent as possible. The usual scent zone for deer is from the human waste down to the ground. I don't worry quite as much about my neck and head, although when its cold out, I am obviously wearing some kind of hood, which keeps both heat, and skin rafts in my clothes, and not on my trail. A sky mask, or balaclava will protect your face and neck from giving off rafts. Gloves will cover your hands. Between the baking soda, and the Doe-in-heat, you become almost invisible from a scent picture point of perspective.
