Bucks still not interested in does in Illinois??
I moved my stand a couple days ago from overlooking a cut corn field where I hadn't been seeing much to much deeper and almost on top of a bedding area. I was super excited about sneaking in there this afternoon, but only saw one lone doe walk by.
As I made my way out at twilight, I came to the corn field where my stand was a few days ago... and, yep, you guessed it: five does and a nice 2-1/2 year-old (probably about a 115-class buck) out in front of where my stand had been hanging. Never fails, huh?
Anyway, what perplexes me a bit is that the does were grouped up together, and the buck was about thirty yards away -- paying them no attention whatsoever. No looks at them, nothing. Kinda surprised me he wasn't mixing it up with them any at all.
I sat there and watched them for about ten minutes, and ended up calling the buck over to within 17 yards (the wind was in my favor, and he couldn't make out what I was in the twilight as I sat in the woodline. Pretty neat.) with a True Talker grunt tube. I ended up using my rattle bag to spook all of them out of the field so I could get back to my truck and they not be able to identify me.
Discipline -- not desire -- determines destiny.