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<blockquote data-quote="Spurhunter" data-source="post: 5018757" data-attributes="member: 5695"><p>IMO you are 100% correct. I am a perfect example. I work 4 tens. I have a lot of vacation. My kids are grown. I'm single. I absolutely LOVE to hunt. I spend more time in the stand than most anybody I know. I hunt a 300 acre river bottom thicket that holds plenty of mature bucks. But, I can't kill them. I hunt TN until it closes, then I hunt MS until Jan 31, then I fish and get ready for turkey season. After turkey season I fish and play golf until October. I have too many hobbies that I enjoy to spend all year focusing on one. And I don't have that intuition or "luck". On the other hand, I have a buddy that hunts 20% of the time I do, and he always kills mature bucks. He has been doing it for the 25 years I've known him. He just knows "the secret". He barely runs cameras, if at all, which is surprising because he always knows where to be and when to be there. He is either the luckiest SOB to ever climb a tree, or he has incredible intuition. I believe it's the latter. There are also guys that consistently kill mature bucks by living deer hunting 12 months a year. As you mention, they are in the woods the day after season closes scouting for next year, mapping, moving stands, etc. To kill mature bucks regularly, I think you have to be the 12 month guy, have incredible intuition, or be incredibly lucky.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spurhunter, post: 5018757, member: 5695"] IMO you are 100% correct. I am a perfect example. I work 4 tens. I have a lot of vacation. My kids are grown. I'm single. I absolutely LOVE to hunt. I spend more time in the stand than most anybody I know. I hunt a 300 acre river bottom thicket that holds plenty of mature bucks. But, I can't kill them. I hunt TN until it closes, then I hunt MS until Jan 31, then I fish and get ready for turkey season. After turkey season I fish and play golf until October. I have too many hobbies that I enjoy to spend all year focusing on one. And I don't have that intuition or "luck". On the other hand, I have a buddy that hunts 20% of the time I do, and he always kills mature bucks. He has been doing it for the 25 years I've known him. He just knows "the secret". He barely runs cameras, if at all, which is surprising because he always knows where to be and when to be there. He is either the luckiest SOB to ever climb a tree, or he has incredible intuition. I believe it's the latter. There are also guys that consistently kill mature bucks by living deer hunting 12 months a year. As you mention, they are in the woods the day after season closes scouting for next year, mapping, moving stands, etc. To kill mature bucks regularly, I think you have to be the 12 month guy, have incredible intuition, or be incredibly lucky. [/QUOTE]
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