dan wrote:Headgear, don't think that your going to have action every time you sit near a good buck bedding area... They move around a lot. Sometimes I go weeks hunting different buck bedding areas each day without seeing a shooter buck.
That goes with the territory when you don't own 300 acres of private. The key of course is to stay mobile and confident in what you have confirmed previously. Public land can be challenging when you not seeing much, but as with most things...persistence pays. I'm not sure what my % of seeing mature bucks per hunt is, but I know its not very high. The biggest factor is to capitalize when that rare chance comes. Its easy to sluff it up when you have been lolled to sleep with a bunch of crappy prior sits. Focus and maintaining your edge is huge. Easier said than done at times.