Landon, come on?? Yes, the Drury's are hunting the absolute Mecca of deer hunting. HUGE chunks of private ground, only a handful of hunters (like 4) and intensely managed. Their pieces of land are also large enough that they have deer LIVING their entire lives on them. Huge differene here when compared to small tracts most of us have access to. When you can scout bucks like they do, between the trail cams and summer sightings, and KNOW that deer is living on your land, you can kill him with regularity, and pass the other 30 bucks that come by. Another factor to consider is time in the field. Theese guys are out every single day of the season, so by time alone, something is bound to happen. You bet your ass that I am not hunting on Drury type ground here.

Anyone remember two years ago when Lee Lakosky passed that 170" class deer because he was "only" probably 3.5? He knew that deer would be around the next year because of little pressure and tract size. In this particular case, the deer was poached, but still, passing deer like that just doesn't happen on Joe Blow's IL land, I don't care it is still has spots on it at 170".