I mainly pattern the bucks individually. I start with learning the buck bedding areas in winter / spring after season then glass and shine the nearby feeding areas during the summer and figure out which bucks are coming from which bedding areas, then move in for the kill when the season opens. Sometimes you get a buck other than the one you expect, but thats ok too. I do better opening week than during the rut.

Shot this one opening eve in his staging area after watching him all summer..



Learned this ones bedding area in winter, glassed him in the bedding area several times from a hill over looking his bedding area... Arrowed him opening evening....


Arrowed this one pre-rut after watching him during the summer and fall useing the same exits in and out of his bedding area. 1st couple hunts did not succeed, but new enough not to over hunt it. Gave him one more shot before he would dissapear for rut.


Watched this one during the summer and followed his trail back till it started looking like a bedding area set up and killed him just before dark opening day.


Patterned this one for a freind who blew the shot opening eve. Gave my wifes cousin a try the next day, he missed and spooked the deer too. Found where it relocated to a new bedding area and shot it the 1st day I hunted it....


An old guy at work kept telling me about seeing this buck every day ( late season) on his way to work. Went to where he saw it set up and shot him the next morning.


Shot this one after learning his bedding area in winter and finding a spot where I could park the truck and glass him as he staged near his bedding area. Glassed him several times just before season, but had to wait to the right wind to move in for the kill. Shot him early October.



Same story.....Oct. 5th.


Late Sept.


This one was featured last year on Whitetail addictions TV show. I shot him Oct. 1st within 100 yards of his bedding area on a water hole ( 85 degrees out )


Opener buck...