817 - Do Mature Bucks Recognize Your Stand?

Can a mature buck actually recognize your treestand, your climber, or your trail cameras? Andrew opens this one with a story about the biggest buck he'd ever seen in bow range — a buck that stepped out, locked onto the base of the tree he was sitting in, and eased off without a sound. It never saw him. It never smelled him. So what gave him away?

From there, Andrew and Jacob work through a stack of your questions from Circle and the website. Classic Thursday Q&A — straight from you guys.

In this episode:

• Do deer recognize your treestand & trail cameras?
• The buck that busted Andrew's climber — and what gave him away
• Shooting houses, box blinds & the black-window trick
• Why you're giving mature bucks too many chances to learn you
• Will a mature buck abandon his home range under pressure?
• The good bucks you never knew were on your property
• Could you actually pressure a buck out of his core?
• Do deer relocate, or just shut down and go thick?
• You jumped your target buck scouting — now what?
• Scouting in August & September on familiar ground
• Finding a bachelor group in a cool creek bottom
• Are you putting your trail cameras in the wrong spots?
• Cameras on feed trees: before or after they drop?
• Has extreme mobile hunting saved more bucks than it's killed?
• The Who / Where / When of killing a specific buck
• Do bucks bed in the same spot year after year?
• Thermals, wind & hunting tight to water
• Is killing a mature buck more luck or skill?
• Mast crop report

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