bigbendmarine
5 year old buck +
Addendum to my note above about deer getting REAL smart, REAL quick, last year I had an incredible PARADE of nice bucks march across my back yard the very evening before season started, with at least 4 mature bucks penciled in as possibilities for a hit list. Of those bucks, from that point to the end of season I only saw one of them from the stand in daylight hours and that's with very limited pressure on my place -- I only hunted a handful of times, only with favorable winds, and taking great care to sneak to my stand midday and then leaving the stand well after deer cleared out of my plots after dark. Actually gave a pass to the one deer I recognized and a few weeks later harvested an even nicer "new on the scene" buck.