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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5552008" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>Here's some food for thought. It's often said 10% of hunters kill 90% of big bucks. That means 10% of big bucks are being killed on accident by people who don't actually know how or why. They just happened to be at the right place at right time. But who do you reckon says all the stuff you listed, the 90% or the 10%? </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That only makes sense if you assume a buck lives only in one spot. Picture yourself as the man in a polygamist compound. There may be three or four houses and each house is home to one or more women and their children. You are free to roam from house to house as you please, breeding with whichever woman is hot & ready, eating dinner wherever it's best that particular night. When you're exhausted and stressed you go hang out by yourself in the barn. Regardless of where inside that compound you're at, whichever woman you're breeding, you're at home. It's all your home. </p><p></p><p>That compound is a mature buck's home range, and each of those houses and the barn are his core areas. If you were going to hunt him, how would you approach so that you could get in and get it done without him knowing you're there, and without making a big disturbance inside the compound? If you try hiding inside one of the houses the women & kids will bust you for sure. If you try climbing a tree in the yard to catch him coming & going then you might have to wait a very long long time before he uses that path and chances are very good one of the women or kids using it will bust you before you ever see him. And you can't hunt him at the dinner table without disrupting everything. If you were smart you'd do your due diligence and identify the barn. Find the path where all the paths coming from each house converge to lead to that barn. Women & kids don't go to the barn. Only he does. And he goes there pretty much after every stint he spends with one of the women & kids to regroup & rest so he can go see another woman & kids. Hunting him inside that barn or on the path to it is your best chance at killing him while his guard is down and no one else around to pick you out. If you know that he's currently at one of the houses then you've got a very, very good idea where he'll be headed when he leaves. Be there before he gets there.</p><p></p><p>I know that's a strange analogy but it paints a picture. That's basically how I see the deer woods and how I target specific mature bucks with a decent degree of success. When I kill a buck it's not an accident and it's not random. I was specifically hunting him. I did my homework and familiarized myself with his personality & tendencies. When I step foot in the woods I do so with a degree of confidence that I'll be killing that particular buck on that day. It doesn't always work. Actually it doesn't work more often than it does. But it works often enough to keep me coming back for more. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Man I don't discount anything! It's all pieces of a puzzle and only when all pieces are present & put in their respective place can you see the whole picture. Hunting mature bucks is one heck of a puzzle. That's why we're so interested in it I guess. There's always a problem to solve. We could debate all day long where a buck travels & when but we'd never get anywhere because every buck is different. The longer I hunt & the more I learn about deer, the more I focus on individual bucks because it's easier learning one deer's behavior than it is grouping them all together. You'd be better off herding cats. That's how individual they are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5552008, member: 20583"] Here's some food for thought. It's often said 10% of hunters kill 90% of big bucks. That means 10% of big bucks are being killed on accident by people who don't actually know how or why. They just happened to be at the right place at right time. But who do you reckon says all the stuff you listed, the 90% or the 10%? That only makes sense if you assume a buck lives only in one spot. Picture yourself as the man in a polygamist compound. There may be three or four houses and each house is home to one or more women and their children. You are free to roam from house to house as you please, breeding with whichever woman is hot & ready, eating dinner wherever it's best that particular night. When you're exhausted and stressed you go hang out by yourself in the barn. Regardless of where inside that compound you're at, whichever woman you're breeding, you're at home. It's all your home. That compound is a mature buck's home range, and each of those houses and the barn are his core areas. If you were going to hunt him, how would you approach so that you could get in and get it done without him knowing you're there, and without making a big disturbance inside the compound? If you try hiding inside one of the houses the women & kids will bust you for sure. If you try climbing a tree in the yard to catch him coming & going then you might have to wait a very long long time before he uses that path and chances are very good one of the women or kids using it will bust you before you ever see him. And you can't hunt him at the dinner table without disrupting everything. If you were smart you'd do your due diligence and identify the barn. Find the path where all the paths coming from each house converge to lead to that barn. Women & kids don't go to the barn. Only he does. And he goes there pretty much after every stint he spends with one of the women & kids to regroup & rest so he can go see another woman & kids. Hunting him inside that barn or on the path to it is your best chance at killing him while his guard is down and no one else around to pick you out. If you know that he's currently at one of the houses then you've got a very, very good idea where he'll be headed when he leaves. Be there before he gets there. I know that's a strange analogy but it paints a picture. That's basically how I see the deer woods and how I target specific mature bucks with a decent degree of success. When I kill a buck it's not an accident and it's not random. I was specifically hunting him. I did my homework and familiarized myself with his personality & tendencies. When I step foot in the woods I do so with a degree of confidence that I'll be killing that particular buck on that day. It doesn't always work. Actually it doesn't work more often than it does. But it works often enough to keep me coming back for more. Man I don't discount anything! It's all pieces of a puzzle and only when all pieces are present & put in their respective place can you see the whole picture. Hunting mature bucks is one heck of a puzzle. That's why we're so interested in it I guess. There's always a problem to solve. We could debate all day long where a buck travels & when but we'd never get anywhere because every buck is different. The longer I hunt & the more I learn about deer, the more I focus on individual bucks because it's easier learning one deer's behavior than it is grouping them all together. You'd be better off herding cats. That's how individual they are. [/QUOTE]
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