Imagine you’re in a dream, hunting one of the micromanaged, mature-buck-rich properties many of the TV, video and other outdoors personalities hunt, where bucks are not targeted until they are at least 3½ years old. If you’re used to hunting areas with heavy competition, you would be in seventh heaven knowing a mistake before releasing your arrow would not necessarily end an opportunity and would definitely not be a season killer, because you’d get another opportunity at a mature buck.
Now wake up, and face the reality that isn’t gonna happen. You simply can’t afford it, or maybe like me, you don’t have the unusual desire for a guaranteed season. So instead, you go out and compete against the masses of other bowhunters for few mature bucks.
The few mature bucks that might inhabit heavily hunted areas have been conditioned to consequential hunting pressure. That’s defined as a situation in which most if not all bow-and gun hunters in the area target every legal antlered buck. This type of pressure has a direct influence on how many bucks survive to reach maturity, their daytime movement habits and how they react to any portion of a hunt. If
