![]() Your inner brain will start to distract you with undone chores at home, the football game is coming on and of course your brain will tell you, ” it’s been a long season this is public land and all the good ones are dead.” These are the times you have to look into yourself and say, ” mature bucks are not stupid, they are not all dead and I will sit here until dark!”Īs I sat there my mind was doing this. Your mind will start to play tricks on you. You don’t have that confidence if trail cam pics, reassurance from a buddy or guide. Doubt is really great in a DIY whitetail hunters mind when he is hunting a new area. Many times in life you doubt yourself, especially in deer hunting and very much so when you only hunt mature bucks (3.5 years and older). I found a group of pine treesand laurel a little over 160 yards away that would be a perfect place to put my folding chair out and sit back and watch the crossing. The bucks were still using this travel corridor. Sure enough the small pines and thigh size aspen, locust and red maples had all been rubbed again. It just looked like a natural funnel for flighty mature bucks to cross the field.Īs I arrived there and the sunrise started, I made a quick recon of the funnel. The average width was 300 yards but at this spot the field was 75 yards wide. The field was at least a thousand yards long. ![]() This field had a thin strip of laurel above the field and a large bed below. I remembered from the spring gobbler season seeing some decent rubs through a brushy narrow field. I won’t put his name here but folks in central West Virginia will know who I am talking about.Īnyways this DIY hunt developed as I decided to hunt a tract that I had never deer hunted before. This gentleman allows Sunday hunting and has land in several West Virginia counties. I also enjoyed Wallback WMA and still hunt it as much as time allows but in the meantime I discovered a gentleman that gives free hunting permits on his thousands of acres of public-private land. My go to used to be Burnsville WMA because of the antler restrictions. I hunt the lease religiously but every once in a while I like to break away from the everyday and go hit some public lands. We have managed bucks for maturity there for 15 years. Now most of you that follow my writings know that I am the founder and member on a private lease. Whether it’s putting in our own food plots, building blinds, hanging stands or in most cases just scouting with aerial photos and information gleaned and putting it to use on public land hunts. As whitetail hunters most of us take the bull by the horns and get it done in our own. DIY – we all know this stands for “Do It Yourself”. ![]()
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