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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5018465" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>Good summary.</p><p></p><p>I think the number 1 key may be <em>DESIRE</em> to only target fully mature bucks, to the point of actually <em>ENJOYING</em> passing up younger bucks, followed by great <em>PATIENCE</em>.</p><p></p><p>That great <em>PATIENCE</em> is often <em>WAITING</em> to only hunt certain "spots" when the timing and conditions are most ideal.</p><p></p><p>As much as I love to hunt mornings over afternoons (generally speaking) post-rut, I often force myself to not step afield before mid-morning, when the wind starts rattling the beech leaves, then carefully stalk a spot at which I'll take a stand mid-day, until dark-thirty, stalking out, much like I stalked in.</p><p></p><p>Late season in particular, mature bucks will often "bed" at night in the middle of a field. Often impossible to successfully morning hunt fields, and, morning hunting them often makes the older deer more nocturnal, i.e. they become less likely to enter those fields in the afternoons before dark. Also, those deer bedded in fields will often remain bedded there until it gets light, then only move a few yards off the fields, often making post-rut hunting of older deer particularly challenging.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5018465, member: 1409"] Good summary. I think the number 1 key may be [I]DESIRE[/I] to only target fully mature bucks, to the point of actually [I]ENJOYING[/I] passing up younger bucks, followed by great [I]PATIENCE[/I]. That great [I]PATIENCE[/I] is often [I]WAITING[/I] to only hunt certain "spots" when the timing and conditions are most ideal. As much as I love to hunt mornings over afternoons (generally speaking) post-rut, I often force myself to not step afield before mid-morning, when the wind starts rattling the beech leaves, then carefully stalk a spot at which I'll take a stand mid-day, until dark-thirty, stalking out, much like I stalked in. Late season in particular, mature bucks will often "bed" at night in the middle of a field. Often impossible to successfully morning hunt fields, and, morning hunting them often makes the older deer more nocturnal, i.e. they become less likely to enter those fields in the afternoons before dark. Also, those deer bedded in fields will often remain bedded there until it gets light, then only move a few yards off the fields, often making post-rut hunting of older deer particularly challenging. [/QUOTE]
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