I think that you may get lucky and shoot a mature buck during the rut without scent control and having a bunch of movement. But you will not consistently take Mature Bucks like this. That is why they are so old. You never see them because they smell, see, or hear you first. My father in law took a nice, large, 8pter the other day and it took that deer almost an hour to get into the funnle we were hunting. This was on private land that nobody had been on for weeks, except me hanging a stand 4 days before the hunt. I think you need to realize that your probably only seeing 10% of the bucks on your property.

Mike