Best advice I can give you is start walking. You ain’t gonna Learn squat sitting in a tree. Unless you are in a jam up spot, you’ll be hanging with the squirrels. Wear out some boot leather. Find feed trees, trails, rubs, bedding areas, jump deer, walk downwind, screw it all up. Don’t stop until the sign takes your breath away. Like
@WHW says, ‘hunt sign that MAKES you climb a tree’ - how do you recognize it? Well, you gotta see a lot to know the difference. You already know what good sign doesn’t look like to this point. Go out and bump some deer man. Be too aggressive, move too much.
People may disagree, and it violates the deer hunter code of sit food or travel corridors and wait for deer that know you and every other hunter in the woods are there. They ain’t comin.
I was hardheaded about it. I finally committed to not climbing a tree unless I was supremely confident deer would be coming by, and if they didn’t, it would be a surprise. I suspect I now spend 80+% of my time in the field walking. Maybe even more. I see deer almost every hunt. Why? Not because I’m a great hunter or I’m in area with heavy deer density. It’s because I don’t hunt unless I know I’ll see deer.
Seems silly, or obvious. But most folks are not aggressive enough, either scouting or setting up. It’s just deer. They don’t bite. And if you ain’t seeing deer now, what’s worse - not seeing deer in a tree, or seeing deer running away as you’re walking by? At least with one of these options, you break the monotony/learn something/see a deer.