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I mainly pattern the bucks individually. I start with learning the buck bedding areas in winter / spring after season then glass and shine the nearby feeding areas during the summer and figure out which bucks are coming from which bedding areas, then move in for the kill when the season opens. Sometimes you get a buck other than the one you expect, but thats ok too. I do better opening week than during the rut.

Shot this one opening eve in his staging area after watching him all summer..



Learned this ones bedding area in winter, glassed him in the bedding area several times from a hill over looking his bedding area... Arrowed him opening evening....


Arrowed this one pre-rut after watching him during the summer and fall useing the same exits in and out of his bedding area. 1st couple hunts did not succeed, but new enough not to over hunt it. Gave him one more shot before he would dissapear for rut.


Watched this one during the summer and followed his trail back till it started looking like a bedding area set up and killed him just before dark opening day.


Patterned this one for a freind who blew the shot opening eve. Gave my wifes cousin a try the next day, he missed and spooked the deer too. Found where it relocated to a new bedding area and shot it the 1st day I hunted it....


An old guy at work kept telling me about seeing this buck every day ( late season) on his way to work. Went to where he saw it set up and shot him the next morning.


Shot this one after learning his bedding area in winter and finding a spot where I could park the truck and glass him as he staged near his bedding area. Glassed him several times just before season, but had to wait to the right wind to move in for the kill. Shot him early October.



Same story.....Oct. 5th.


Late Sept.


This one was featured last year on Whitetail addictions TV show. I shot him Oct. 1st within 100 yards of his bedding area on a water hole ( 85 degrees out )


Opener buck...

I actually released a DVD that goes in depth about exactly how I pattern these bucks. ( mostly on public land ) If your interested you can pick it up on my site www.bloodbro.com its called hunting marsh bucks...

Nice Bucks! I prefer to hunt known Buck travel corridors and funnels. They usually don't change from year to year.

Dan

Bukmastr, that is quite anicedisplayof buck kills. I'll be checking out that dvd. I have had some pretty goodsuccess with simular tactics. Your just the kind of hunter I am prone to listen to. Lots of bone to back up your statements. Nice work!

In the last two years hunting the same property, there is always a rubline down a certain row of trees. There are sapplings that show seasons after season of rubs. I set a stand up near this spot last year and let a friend hunt it. Every morning between 7:30 AM and as late as 8:15 he would cruise just far enough back in the woods from them to check them out. Partner never had a shot. He looked to be possibly the alpha buck in the property due to his size and the nice 130-140- rack he had.

Im trying something different and try to head him off befor he gets to the woodline to conceal himself in.

I keep notes of where I saw a buck/doe, what time, where he/she was traveling, and or bedding.

I will definately use this to my advantage especially since i see him on this same route with camera.

The area I hunt is sooo thick that it is hard to figure out where the deer are bedding and we dont have any agriculture in this part of the state, it makes patterning deer near impossible. I too have been really trying to improve on this subject but all the advice i have picked up seems useless in this type of terrain. There are no places to view them from without being on top of them, makes it hard to watch them all summer...I have resorted to trail cameras to try and help with this very thing....So, no I don't pattern deer but truly wishI could!!!!!

BukmastrI remember seing some of your pics and having a DVD out but i couldnt remember where i seen it. Congrats on some great sucsess

Thanks, its going over pretty good... A lot better than I expected. The tactics outlined on the DVD are really getting some good press. I was featured in Bowhunting world mag. this last month in an article about hunting natural and man made water holes, and Bowhunter mag, Bowhunting the North, Field & stream and a few other smaller publications are doing articles right now... It feels pretty good. I was expecting a lot more negativism.

I target specific bucks in early season especially. I can really pattern specific bucks when they are still in bachelor groups particularly in early season, usually for the first week or2 until they all shed thier velvet at which point they break up and start doing their own thing. Its hot and lots of bugs but Ive had great luck hunting early season bucks that I have been glassing and patterning feeding routines. I can still hunt a specific buck after that but it gets more difficult as the big boys start going norcturnal where I hunt right after shedding.