Outdoors: Pre-rut strategies
Bigger bucks are smart and each one has a proven survival strategy. They'd be almost impossible to bag if it weren't for the rut when they emerge from thick cover to chase the ladies.Even then they are difficult animals to hunt. I bagged this trophy by locating his secretive little trail and watching it when the rut had him searching.
Photo by Wade Robertson
Outdoors, Sports
October 8, 2026

Outdoors: Pre-rut strategies

To bag a giant buck requires more than luck nowadays. True, you may be lucky and stumble onto a wall...
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