This will be my second season, chasing Whitetails up in Connecticut and still trying to figure these bucks out. The area near my home that I’m hunting There are only seven does, a family of three, and a family of four. with maybe a handful of local bucks.
With there not being that many does these bucks venture a good bit to the point that you might see a mature buck that you’re after maybe a handful of times on camera, most of the time just a couple pictures cruising through.
I only had one picture of this buck and that was December 1st at five in the morning. I gave up on the cameras and basically just hunted… My goal was just to bait a spot to get as much does scent in the area and have the bucks cruise through and check the location. It was working with a different buck cruising through the area one or twice a week.
Finally last night things came together with this very tight beam buck coming in at 4:15 basically scent-checking the pile and when he left luckily he gave me a 28-yard shot severing the Bucks ticker and he crashed 20 yards from the shot.
very thankful for this cool-looking deer
