Buckeye....

Joe Brooks calls these transition areas "Breaklines"....and I've hunted them for two years without even knowing I was doing it. I just knew that's where I saw the most deer.

That spot you mention always catches my eye (inside corner)...and by definition...EVERY inside corner is on a breakline (when the breakline is a tangible entity and not a property boundary).

What I've learned from this thread (among other subtleties) is I hunt about like everyone else does.....and that's good and bad, I guess....lol. It sounds like we have guys who hunt "deer" and wait for the does to draw the bucks to them during that special time of the year. Nothing wrongg with that....and it's worked out for me doing this. I also have never had the habitat/accessibility to do anything different.

Now...I do. So...my quest in this thread was to find out what guys who were hunting bucks, ONLY, during the non-rut times were doing (in a roundabout way....while getting all the information I could). At the very least....I now have properties I can doe hunt on while I wait for the rut in the areas that have already proven themselves in the past. While hunting these other properties....I can now "maybe" put my "gut feelings" to the test on some buck travel areas, too. I'm looking forward to it. I don't see how I can lose with this outlook. I might find that NONE of my hunting areas are buck travel corridors (during non-rut times)....and that'll be OK, too. As many does as I have ......the bucks WILL be there, sometime.

I'm gonna take my longbow into some off the beaten path areas.....take a doe if I get an opportunity.....and then compound up and explore/takesome chances. I've got enough guys that say they'll help with the doe pops. We might have to hunt a little harder for them.....but I think I'll reap the rewards of this approach, later. And...we just might stumble onto a buck while doing so.

Thanks, so much, for all of your inputs. I learned a lot in this thread.