I am seriously considering putting all of my efforts into hunting one specific buck this fall. Lets just say...he's big.I didn't kill a buck last season, so eating tag soup isn't a big concern to me.This will also be a bow only area forme to hunt, so I need to try to seal the deal before gun season. I know the odds are stacked against me....thats what makes it fun. Who has hunted one particular buck and been successful?

I'm a very patient person... infact the patient people I know even say I'm patient... but I'm not that patient.... and quite honestly, nor am I that skilled. I don't honestly think that I could pattern one particular deer (in my part of the world and in my hunting conditions) so that I could kill him selectively.

The deer I was after last year, I only know for a fact that he even stepped foot on my hunting ground three times... and all of those were before the season.

If I had the land, and if running dogs was illegal, and I was in total control of everything except what the deer do naturally. The environment I hunt is so chaotic, and so uncontrolable and unpredictable, that even if I were to tag that giant buck I have pictures of... it wouldn't really amount to anything much more than being still and cognistant of the wind and making a good shot.... little more than luck.

I'd love the opportunity and the place to be able to do such a thing, to me it is amoung the more pure forms of the sport, when you consider it for its own sake.

Oct 19th I decide not to try and shoot a nice nine. I decided than it was Mr. Mass or bust. I did not waste my time in 2007, I was in the woods hunting and learning.

Most of all I had fun

I have a few times. I will try to help via email or PM if you want.

I'm open to all the help I can get Greg.Those of you that have been successful, whats your approach? A few well selected stand sites rotated often, or one "hot spot" and wait for the perfect day. This ground is relatively small and I want to keep the ground as low pressure as possible.

It's called hunting. I've done what you plan to do and won and was on top of the world. I've done what you plan to do for 3 years and failed. It's my most memorable time in hunting...EVER, the failure. He was magnificent. I literally threw my eyes to the Heavens on our last encounter and yelled, "You F---ing win".... and then I left that woods for several years. To my knowledge, no one killed that deer.

To this point, I've never been in a realistic situation to attempt that. Kudos to those who do, I think it would be a pretty interesting challenge.
Good luck BBM, hope you get him.

I couldn't agree more, I have one of those where I hunt. So far the score is Buck 2 Me 0. I am now trying to figure out how I can get him but I have competition from the neighboring property. What kills me is that I have left the property several times and he comes out of the woods into my friends yard and watched me drive out!!! I had another one at another property do the same twice but I have a story to go with it that is freaky.

As long as you are enjoying yourself it is not a waste of time. It's not a competition, hunt how you want man.

Paul

I went head to head with my biggest Michigan buck to date and won!! It is a feeling like no other, Waste of time never but as you stated already might mean tag soup!! Butif you get him it is all more than worth it.. With mine I kept moving in closer and closer to where I knew he was bedding until I the last day I was with in 50 yards of his bed in the morning and he came in strolling in.. Done deal!!! Good luck!! Walt