RE: Pattering A Mature Buck
Germ, as you know, i thought i had a chance at a biggun unpressured...but was slightly surprised when another hunter walked under my stand this evening...and then he tells me of him and his buddy hunting there atleast once before....
cant account for stuff like that...period. with climbing stands being so popular, and small woodlots being common, its VERY hard to tell who is hunting where and when...they can enter anywhere and still be hunting the same deer your hunting....
bow hunting is also gaining huge popularity around my area...gas prices went up so spotting isnt as popular, but now they are just baiting and putting cameras in every woodlot all summer long....these guys have the hunting screwed before it starts going in and checking cameras and bringing bait...these woodlots are just too small to be sloppy going in sweating and stinking the place up in the summer to drag in bait and check the cameras, moving cameras, hanging stands, moving stands etc etc....(atleast most of mine are small...and many guys doing the same thing...)
guy tonite had cologn on i could smell STRONG 15ft away talking to him....
cant account for things like that...mature bucks arent mature coz they are dumb...we know that.
just gotta hunt smarter than the average hunters...alot of it comes back to learning the other hunters as much as your learning the deer....find the best looking places with the most sign and absolutely avoid them like the plauge is always my rule of thumb lol...fields, areas easy to get to and close to the road etc all get scratched off the list...nice open hard woods too....i gotta take these steps to see DEER...let alone mature bucks lol.....
guys that have never hunted states like this just cant understand what its like to have somewhere around 1 million hunters in a state...not complaining...just stating its different...ive never hunted anywhere else, but i know its different just by reading posts on here...even our REAL private land is different from the land i currently hunt....i know that from talking to buddies and stuff...