How to combat circling...

[Clark]

Problem doe.
You have already educated her.
She's almost unkillable now at that feeder, with your bow.
Felling limbs, blocking trails, its all good in theory...but she's not going to quit circling downwind.
And the slightest hint of you, she's letting everybody know.

Back out 200 yards and crack her with a .270

[txdukklr]

a. block the trail and create a new path of least resistance
b. make sure you aren't following the path they are, if they smell you on the way in you are putting them on alert
c. Make sure your scent proof regime is strong . . . . especially where your touching the route in. I actually love ever calm on my boots for this reason. Seen too many deer coming calmly that literally stopped in their tracks when they intersected my path to not believe that it happens a lot.

I think way too little effort is put into the routes we take in and out of our hunting areas. We create paths easy for us and then the deer start using them too. If I feel like a deer seems to patterning me then I change the pattern. I've literally taken the path of most resistance and outside of "normal" hunting times and completely slammed deer that I had busting me repeatedly.

An does are the absolute worst. Every single deer on your property learns from their grandma, mom and sisters.