I wanted to ask the guys who kill bucks year in and year out.....

1. Do you see does in the places you've killed your bucks? Not many, rarely any if I am hunting a particular buck outside of Nov.

2. Are you trying to AVOID seeing does.....opting, instead, for more buck-friendly areas? No the mature bucks, this big country, androom toseek out secluded "hideouts"takes care of that for me. Only during the last two weeks of November do I transition to the doe family group core areas, I move in on them when the big bucks move in and make camp on them.

3. How do you determine said areas (if No. 2's answer is "yes")?

4. How do you determine #3 if you're not hunting "sign"?

5. If you do see does where you're killing your bucks...at what time of the year are you having your best luck seeing bucks? The doe families andyoung bucksI see almost always live and move around during the daylight significantly lower in elevation (mountainous country)than the old bucks do. On a rare occasion I will see a doeor young buckcome by a stand that I have set up on a particular buck.

I see a lot of deer from my stands with binoculars if I am hunting the edge of a high mountain clearcutbut near my stands like those,I see very little deer due to the fact that I am pretty much hunting for one or two bucks that live in that immediate area.

When I transition to doe unit areas during the last week of November into the first week of December, I see the vast majority of the truely big mature bucks movingduring daylight hours. Every year thesame scenario pretty much plays out here in the mountains.