Motown, I don't hunt field edges but I do indeed hunt food sources. The buck/doe ratio I believe is way out of sync, as evidenced by my lack of seeing bucks. Ya'll, I don't mean big mature bucks.....I mean ANY bucks....I just don't see them.

Some of my stands are on inside corners, saddles, ridge tops, fence crossings, stuff like that. I even hunt the occasional water hole. I try to diligently control my scent and play the wind, though I have yet to master that swirling wind thing.....I hunt high but it still swirls on me.

I fear I don't know how a buck thinks in order for me to think like him. I don't know, I just get pretty confused.....like I've mentioned, I see does by the tons....just never any bucks. I think in the last 3 seasons I've seen..........7 bucks, of ANY size and age. I see does nearly every trip to the woods.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not discouraged....shoot, I love to see and shoot does. I am confused though....I don't expect to see as many bucks as does, that's unrealistic....but 1 or 2 a season seems silly as well. I hunt hard. During the rut I sit from dark to dark. I put in some........50 days on stand.....I just don't get it.