Originally Posted by Topgun 3006

If you're after mature bucks, listen to Rockport and stay out of the area you're sure they'll be in until it's time so you don't stink it up any more than absolutely necessary getting in and out. Good example: A buddy of mine knew a real good buck was in a fairly small area and got in there well before daylight and into his tree stand that he hung well before the season. Right about daylight Tom sees the buck coming from right to left and got to the one small trail Tom had used to get to the stand. There was one overhanging limb and that buck stopped, took a quick sniff on that limb that Tom thought he must have brushed up against when he went under it and backed right out of there never to be seen again until the rut really got going. Even though Tom played his cards right, that one little booboo leaving his scent on that branch and that buck won the game!