Originally Posted by
salukipv1
Similar issues where I hunt...
I'm thinking all the young bucks we've passed on are perhaps older now, and way smarter, and I haven't upped my game as much as they have in order to see them...
Though this year we mostly saw young/dink bucks, when we saw a buck, and definitely more does, gonna hopefully take another doe or two this weekend, and then we'll see what happens next year?
You might be on to something there buddy. Also the big bruisers may take the best habitat in the area and run the juniors off to land with not as good food,water or shelter. I really don't know, all I know is to make it hospitable to does and the big boys will come in eventually to talk nice to them. Those slick heads will make even the weariest nocturnal buck loose his marbles and mess up.