Well, it happened again. At the end of last season you swore you wouldn’t let the rut go by another season without turning an arrow loose at a good buck, but here you sit, tag in hand, the rut over, and not sure what to do about it.
Maybe you just didn’t get lucky during the rut. Maybe you did, but your arrow hit a twig and soared over a buck’s back like an errant SAM missile. Don’t give up just yet. Post-rut, late-season bow-hunting can be just as good as the rut. Maybe even better.
Now, before you send all those mean e-mails telling me I don’t know what I am talking about, hear me out. Sure the rut is magical, a time when literally thousands of huge bucks are shot. No way am I not up a tree all day, every day, for weeks during the rut. However, even then, success is often just a matter of blind luck … of a buck wandering mindlessly well outside his core
