HOW TO HUNT MATURE BUCK CORE AREAS
There’s nothing like a few crisp, close-up trail-camera photos of a big buck to get you pumped for bow season. Those were my exact thoughts late last summer as I studied some new images from a camera my friend Chad had placed on a piece of ground we planned to hunt during the early season.
Best of all, we had photos of not one, but two thumper bucks. And, although the bucks had been photographed in several locations, one spot in particular seemed to stand out as “the” place to be when bow season rolled around.
It wasn’t that this area produced so many more pictures than other areas. In fact, it yielded fewer. What it did offer was consistent photos of both bucks. That immediately told me that we had guessed right and placed that camera in a definitive core area.
The most encouraging part of all this was these pictures had been captured within a half-mile radius of a prime stand site I discovered the previous summer. Because this site served as an in-woods pinch point, I was certain the bucks were consistently
