Knowing the habits and habitat are the real keys to successful whitetail hunting. Knowing how sunrise and sunsets move whitetails through heavy cover is very important. Knowing the fields they feed in at night and setting up in favorable wind at sunrise or prior to sunset gives you a great chance at a big buck traveling coulees, creek beds or river bottoms either coming to feed or going to bed down.
You summed it up quite well. Look for scrapes also.sitting on the ground seems to bring me ticks.
