RE: bucks
Success with mature bucks out of the rut is not about getting them to come into your stand, its about getting your stand into them. Forget about calling or luring a buck to you, you have to set up where they are. Get close or inside any thick bedding areas, forget the fields and open woods, forget about the does (mature bucks and does are two completely different species)
Hunt thick, hunt scent free, and get under the sheets with them. Otherwise you will only see does and dinks.