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Combatting bate piles

One thing I’ve seen on heavy pressured areas with bait is most the time you will kill the 2-4 year old bucks, but the mature 5 and 6 year old 150”-200” don’t even touch the bait. They have become giants because they are smart. They may see the corn pile and go where they feel safe and untouched by humans. Not in every case but in most pressured areas. But in the other hand the giants will follow a hot doe to every corn pile...
 
I think zero pressure and thick cover beats a bait pile any day of the week, when you think about it every town has a piece of property that the owners are either ANTI or for whatever reason nobody can hunt it, whats everbody do, pound the edge, because this said property is always ripe with deer activity and often times is a haven for mature bucks, thats the way it is around here anyways.
 
TK161BOONER said:
One thing I’ve seen on heavy pressured areas with bait is most the time you will kill the 2-4 year old bucks, but the mature 5 and 6 year old 150”-200” don’t even touch the bait. They have become giants because they are smart. They may see the corn pile and go where they feel safe and untouched by humans. Not in every case but in most pressured areas. But in the other hand the giants will follow a hot doe to every corn pile...
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Same here, when the baiters score its because a mature buck can’t take it anymore and follows a doe, or its just after the rut and there half starved and winters coming, when deep snow hits early here, some big bucks get killed that shouldn’t.
 
Topdog said:
I think zero pressure and thick cover beats a bait pile any day of the week, when you think about it every town has a piece of property that the owners are either ANTI or for whatever reason nobody can hunt it, whats everbody do, pound the edge, because this said property is always ripe with deer activity and often times is a haven for mature bucks, thats the way it is around here anyways.
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Good advise. Where food is abundant, lack of hunting pressure is king. The more you can stay out of your area while the goons next door are setting up their stands, bait, cutting shooting lanes, etc. the smart old guys are on your property where it's nice and quiet. We have a small 20 acre property that only gets walked on (to hunt) once a year during rut and rifle season. A mature buck has been taken yearly for 16 years by one of us in the family.
 
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