Deer & Deer Hunting

ARE YOUR DEER STRESSED OUT?

At first glance, it didn’t make any sense. We all know how smart and cagey mature bucks are. They hardly ever enter open food sources hours before dark outside of the rut, if even then. They sure don’t do it repeatedly, day after day, multiple times a day. Even if you were freakishly lucky enough to have a mature buck doing just that, you’ll next to never get more than one crack at him and, once you blow it, the next time you see him he will be in the back of the neighbor’s truck.

Still, here I was, walking up to a 5½ -year-old buck I had a ridiculous number of daylight pics of in the open field. I had previously passed on him once during the early bow season, and missed a couple of days before with a bow, only to have him

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