I know what your saying about hunting does. I don't think there is one formula that works for everyone..(I know you are not implying that)

But I don't hunt does all year long..I just think Bucks are more solitary creatures. They want to hang out in the nasties, the cover, the wet places. The places that "weekend Joe" won't stumble on them. They will find a place that a "knowledgable" hunter would never look. That long overgrown fence row with supposedly no cover..etc. I don't find good bucks following does just because they are does.

I don't worry about the does until late pre rut through rut. Then I will "hunt the does".