Target Bucks?

[Jonathan_S]

I've got one that showed up recently that I'm pretty excited about. 

If that doesn't pan out, there is a whitetail that I've been hunting since 2016 on which I'll focus. Another buck went from a ~100 inch 4x4 2018 to a ~140 5x5 2019...he could be terribly exciting this year but I haven't gone looking for him.

Nice. I am honing my skills so that I can one day observe deer year after year and have their patterns. A few years ago we did have one that we observed for a couple years but just because it was bedding below my parent's property. He was a whitetail we called "the seal" because when he was sitting down and looking around he looked like an enormously fat seal, big old neck and rounded body. I think someone with a quality tag must have got him though.

I only have experience with mountain whitetails but IME bucks don't shift their yearly homerange hardly at all. Unless logging operations, new roads, or elk move into an area. Even when a bucks bedroom went from thick and brushy to select cut, he only seems to go as far as he has to. YMMV

[OutHouse]

I've got one that showed up recently that I'm pretty excited about. 

If that doesn't pan out, there is a whitetail that I've been hunting since 2016 on which I'll focus. Another buck went from a ~100 inch 4x4 2018 to a ~140 5x5 2019...he could be terribly exciting this year but I haven't gone looking for him.

Nice. I am honing my skills so that I can one day observe deer year after year and have their patterns. A few years ago we did have one that we observed for a couple years but just because it was bedding below my parent's property. He was a whitetail we called "the seal" because when he was sitting down and looking around he looked like an enormously fat seal, big old neck and rounded body. I think someone with a quality tag must have got him though.

I only have experience with mountain whitetails but IME bucks don't shift their yearly homerange hardly at all. Unless logging operations, new roads, or elk move into an area. Even when a bucks bedroom went from thick and brushy to select cut, he only seems to go as far as he has to. YMMV

Thanks for that because there has been a lot of development in recent years below my parent's property which cleared out a huge thicket with a ton of beds, some clearly large buck beds. Sounds like they will simply move to another location close by. I figure when its all developed (mostly 5 acre lots) they might move and bed above me making it easier to pattern them.

[Pathfinder101]

Pathfinder, are you after one of those bucks yourself or will you put your kids on them?

Battling with that very question right now.  I have the opportunity to buy a multi season permit (Hunter Safety Instructor 2nd round draw) and chase them with a bow.  Don't really know how crazy things are going to be for me as a teacher this fall.  Most people would think that teaching "online" would afford lots of time, but teaching ROTC online is a whole nutha' animal.  Plus the fact that I hate technology so everything seems to take me 3 times longer than it should... 

[OutHouse]

Pathfinder, are you after one of those bucks yourself or will you put your kids on them?

Battling with that very question right now.  I have the opportunity to buy a multi season permit (Hunter Safety Instructor 2nd round draw) and chase them with a bow.  Don't really know how crazy things are going to be for me as a teacher this fall.  Most people would think that teaching "online" would afford lots of time, but teaching ROTC online is a whole nutha' animal.  Plus the fact that I hate technology so everything seems to take me 3 times longer than it should...

If I recall correctly, it shouldn't matter whether he puts his kids on them or not. They seem to score big every year! (again if I recall correctly). I have some memory of a dad and his young son's double drop tine mule deer think it was Pathfinder. Must have been epic.

[huntnnw]

Got only 1 buck I’ll target this year all the rest get a pass. Big 5x5 I hope shows himself next week.

[jjhunter]

I’m pretty much just showing up blind for all of my hunts this year.   I’ve got 41 days planned for 3 deer tags so hoping to create some luck by spending lots of days in the field.  Hunting big buck areas and that’s all a guy can ask for.

Good luck to all!

[idaho guy]

I got my eye on the guy to the left. Pattern is perfect go from one guys yard down the street to other guys garden. Question tree stand on the fence or telephone pole? Also considering blind on the bicycle trail?

[b0bbyg]

I got my eye on the guy to the left. Pattern is perfect go from one guys yard down the street to other guys garden. Question tree stand on the fence or telephone pole? Also considering blind on the bicycle trail?

I'd go with the telephone pole without a question, get a lot more height so you can shoot safely over traffic. 

[Jonathan_S]

I got my eye on the guy to the left. Pattern is perfect go from one guys yard down the street to other guys garden. Question tree stand on the fence or telephone pole? Also considering blind on the bicycle trail?

Damn swirling winds from traffic. Makes it tough

[idaho guy]

I got my eye on the guy to the left. Pattern is perfect go from one guys yard down the street to other guys garden. Question tree stand on the fence or telephone pole? Also considering blind on the bicycle trail?

I'd go with the telephone pole without a question, get a lot more height so you can shoot safely over triaffic. 

   


Good thinking I was kinda leaning that way already 

[idaho guy]

I got my eye on the guy to the left. Pattern is perfect go from one guys yard down the street to other guys garden. Question tree stand on the fence or telephone pole? Also considering blind on the bicycle trail?

Damn swirling winds from traffic. Makes it tough

 

Might have to do a tree stand and then blind on the bike path so I can play the wind better based on traffic flow 

[huntnnw]

put all your clothes in a bag and over exhaust of your truck and start truck to get the perfect cover scent

[Bushcraft]

I got my eye on the guy to the left. Pattern is perfect go from one guys yard down the street to other guys garden. Question tree stand on the fence or telephone pole? Also considering blind on the bicycle trail?

Damn swirling winds from traffic. Makes it tough

Hahahaha! Sweet baby Jesus that was hilarious. 

[OutHouse]

Got only 1 buck I’ll target this year all the rest get a pass. Big 5x5 I hope shows himself next week.

Right on. Get after it. Sucks the season starts mid week though, but I'll get out for the holiday weekend.

[OutHouse]

I’m pretty much just showing up blind for all of my hunts this year.   I’ve got 41 days planned for 3 deer tags so hoping to create some luck by spending lots of days in the field.  Hunting big buck areas and that’s all a guy can ask for.

Good luck to all!

41 days? What an adventure. Retired military?