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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow" data-source="post: 1301989" data-attributes="member: 7123"><p>Well you can get 6 deer and only 2 can be bucks. So the FIRST thing to do is harvest 4 does in early archery season (or even 5). But leave at least 1 or 2 coming to the feeder. Then that greatly increases your chance of drawing in both a buck, and specifically a big buck, later during the rut. Yeah, like the man said, the bucks find the does during the rut - unless there's so many does that they don't need to, with does hanging all around them. The trick (not always that easy) is to improve your ratio by eliminating does -the better the ratio, the less nocturnal bucks are (finding does), and the more likely they are to come to rattling, doe bleats, etc.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and a mature buck won't ordinarily come to a feeder during daylight, even if he's moving during daylight - he'll stay off in timber and keep an eye (& nose) on the does. Unless there's virtually no pressure. So get back in a-ways back from the feeder, into a staging area. I love how on the teevee 'private ranch' hunts, the big bucks prance around in the food plots endlessly in broad daylight, terrorizing the does and small bucks - ha ha, that's fantasy on public land and most private land, too. I guess they might do that if your ratio is good, during the rut, on private land. But the ratio stinks in most all places in OK, and everywhere for that matter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow, post: 1301989, member: 7123"] Well you can get 6 deer and only 2 can be bucks. So the FIRST thing to do is harvest 4 does in early archery season (or even 5). But leave at least 1 or 2 coming to the feeder. Then that greatly increases your chance of drawing in both a buck, and specifically a big buck, later during the rut. Yeah, like the man said, the bucks find the does during the rut - unless there's so many does that they don't need to, with does hanging all around them. The trick (not always that easy) is to improve your ratio by eliminating does -the better the ratio, the less nocturnal bucks are (finding does), and the more likely they are to come to rattling, doe bleats, etc. Oh, and a mature buck won't ordinarily come to a feeder during daylight, even if he's moving during daylight - he'll stay off in timber and keep an eye (& nose) on the does. Unless there's virtually no pressure. So get back in a-ways back from the feeder, into a staging area. I love how on the teevee 'private ranch' hunts, the big bucks prance around in the food plots endlessly in broad daylight, terrorizing the does and small bucks - ha ha, that's fantasy on public land and most private land, too. I guess they might do that if your ratio is good, during the rut, on private land. But the ratio stinks in most all places in OK, and everywhere for that matter. [/QUOTE]
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