Let me jump back a little and explain a little more behind the tactic I mentioned earlier about strategically placing a feeder in an area to draw the doe out of the bucks sight…We got side tracked and I never went back and explained the thinking behind it…Again, like I’ve said before this is not to mean that every buck with always do it this way.

An old buck starts out by just shadowing the doe he’s tending. He’s more like a stalker creeping in the shadows at this point. He keeps his distance from her and keeps alert of his surroundings. He may drift back a ways and be 100-200 yards behind her sometimes….maybe more….Right now he knows she’s not ready and he’s only keeping tabs on where she goes so that he’s there when she does get ready to breed….He doesn’t get too bothered by young bucks and such. He’s that old bull standing on the hill that walks down there and ..…..well you know the rest

Alright, so as the hours pass and the doe gets closer and closer to becoming receptive to letting a buck mount her….that old buck is gonna suck up closer and closer to her and is gonna get more defensive about keeping other bucks away and not letting her get out of his sight…..There’s a magic time period right before the doe is ready where he becomes the most vulnerable he’ll likely ever be…..We may be talking about a few hour time period. Once she becomes receptive to breed then they will likely hunker down in a thicket and be hard to catch moving. But during that period right before she is ready .....he will let his guard down and risk exposing himself to danger in order to make sure he’s the one that breeds her. This is when our little feeder trap will snap and catch us a mouse. A certain amount of its just gonna be luck and that doe bringing him to the plot and trap when during this vulnerable time….Now they very well may follow her out in the open during other times too but this is just when the odds are the most in your favor.