Here’s something else you can do too dealing with the same general situation…….This one is gonna require you to have a spot with the right terrain features and such for it to be effective. You’ll want to give this one a good bit of forethought before just putting your “trap” out.

So most of the time that buck isn’t gonna come out in the green field with the doe….About the only time you may get lucky and have that happen is if she’s close to being receptive, The vast majority of the time the buck is gonna stay tucked back just inside the wood line or thicket where he is able to keep an eye on his lady through the gaps in the vegetation. He may just stand ther motionless for a long time if he can see her and nothing else is going on in the plot…..Here’s what will get him in trouble though. They can’t stand to lose sight of that doe their tending and not be able to keep tabs on what’s happening. They’re afraid that another buck will step in and it will drive them to make tge mistake that will give you a shot. What you are gonna do is to take a feeder and put it in a strategic location around your food plot that causes the buck to not be able to see her when she goes to it. Maybe over a little rise or down in gulley or…..maybe even put it out and plant a big circle of Egyptian wheat around it.

There’s a bunch of different possibilities you just need to really think about how it may unfold when the time comes…..Where do the does bed and typically enter the field? Where’s a spot where the buck won’t be able to circle around and stay in the cover??....etc…..etc……Try it though……You may be surprised…….Give it a few minutes for him to get antsy and if he doesn’t commit…..give you grunt call one or two toots and then put it down…..I’ve seen bucks have a complete come apart because of the situation here at my house….thrashing trees….snort wheezing…..,,some kind of real short repetitive snort when he really got pissed off that I’d never heard before…..I watched/listened to an older buck damn near have a meltdown one night when this other 3 year old buck walked out into the street light and started messing with his doe. He was in some serious turmoil over not wanting to walk out into the light and having that other buck mess with his doe. His vocalizations and bush thrashing intimidated the younger deer after a minute of two and he left. As soon as he hit the darkness into the thicket you could hear that older buck run him on off.