If you regularly spook deer while entering or exiting your stand locations, changes have to be made. The % of acres on your land that should be avoided by your access (scent, sound and site) should be at least 50% on parcels 40 acres or less, and at least 60% or greater on parcels 80-120 acres or larger. A sanctuary is not a sanctuary, unless the deer inside can not see you, hear you or smell you. Exterior Hunting AccessĮxterior hunting access doesn't mean that you necessarily have to follow your parcel borders, but it does mean that you have to allow as much contiguous land as possible, to be hunter-free and to truly become a sanctuary. Hidden Food Plots (and other deer hotspots)Īre your food plots and other great habitat creations designed for you to pattern deer or for deer to pattern you? Hunters hunting food plots poorly, may be the #1 way that nocturnal bucks are created. *If you love advanced whitetail hunting and habitat whitetail strategies, then you should greatly appreciate my Whitetails By Design book series!ĥ Rules For Killing Nocturnal Bucks 1. If you hunt as if there is a mature buck sitting 200-300 yards away, that waits until midnight to move, you will have an incredibly tough time consistently killing mature bucks, with the exception of the peak of the rut! Only hunting the peak of the rut isn't a bad gig, but if you want to kill nocturnal bucks all season long, make sure to practice the following 5 rules to hunt by. Stress can include human stress, hunters stress or even stress from other deer, but, bottom line, a mature buck will not tolerate increased stress levels. However, before we dive into those 5 nocturnal-busting hunting tips, you must understand one of the most important mature buck hunting basics to live by: There is no such thing as a "nocturnal" buck! While bucks may appear to move only under the cover of darkness, it will greatly help you if you just accept that fact that mature bucks choose to bed during the daytime, where they don't find stress. For more tips for consistently killing nocturnal bucks, make sure to check out why bucks are rarely nocturnal in, The Myth of Nocturnal Bucks. Buck is also the first to begin smoking in the elevator and provides cigarettes to most of the other ghostly elevator passengers.*Giants like this one grow not because they only move at night, but because their core, daytime home ranges are safe and stress-free. He does so by drawing clear connections between himself, Frick, Shawn, Will, and Carlson Riggs (whom Will plans to kill to avenge Shawn’s death). In Buck’s serious moments, he also attempts to make very clear to Will how the neighborhood’s cycle of violence functions and continues. He heckles and teases Will, though this comes off as an attempt to get Will to reconsider his choices. In death, Buck is a jokester and doesn’t take Will’s desire for revenge seriously. Around the time of his death, he passed his gun down to Shawn, along with the chain that Shawn was wearing when he died. Buck was killed when a man named Frick attempted to rob him. Will recognizes that all of Shawn’s advice about girls also came straight from Buck. As a mentor to Shawn, Buck passed along “the Rules” of the neighborhood and taught him how to handle his gun. This earned him a reputation as a skilled thief who always had expensive stolen items in his possession. Following Pop’s death when Buck was 16, Buck took Shawn under his wing, ceased selling drugs, and instead started to rob suburban houses. This attempt failed, however, and Will wonders if the “nighttime” is something Buck couldn’t escape. Buck was raised in a difficult family situation: his father was plagued by the “nighttime” (a kind of inner darkness or dangerous streak) while his stepfather was a preacher and tried to get Buck on the right path. As far as Will knows, Buck never went by anything else-the only time Will ever saw Buck’s given name was on his headstone. Though his real name was James, he acquired the nickname Buck because he couldn’t grow any facial hair as a young man. When Will meets Buck’s ghost in the elevator, Buck is wearing a T-shirt commemorating his own death. He’s tall and slim, has no facial hair, and wears gold chains around his neck.
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