4 1/2 year old and older bucks, by their very nature are more challenging to hunt. It's like hunting a different species.
If the woods were "littered with them I would think that it would be somewhat easier to kill one, but I can't say for sure. I have never been in woods littered with mature bucks. Has anyone?
Don't get me wrong Greg. I also think that a mature whitetail is a different animal, but I also think that a large part of the challenge is because they are not plentiful in the woods. The are sparse for the most part.
I think it's contradictory to preach "let emgo so they can grow" while at the same time saying how big of a challenge it is to kill a "mature" whitetail.Is it the challenge or the horns that one is after?
If it were the challenge, then I can't understand the "let em grow so they can grow" argument. If it's the Horns, then I don't know why those people just don'tgo to a fenced ranch.