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Why do you not kill the deer you are after?

I'm rarely after "A" deer. I have several I know about and have been playing cat and mouse with for a few years. I passed on one the first evening last fall at about 12 yards. He was in that 125+ category, a very respectable deer around here on public, but in the moment, I just didn't feel like killing him. I have taken 125's before and where he was, I figured I'd take a gamble and see if he makes it to the next year. I think he did. Maybe our paths will cross again.
 
Never been after a certain one just been after anything deer. I’ve never put cameras out in my entire life, I use my knowledge of the woods and tracking ability and “becoming the deer” to find where they would be. If I don’t kill them it’s bc I don’t even see them. I’ve always wondered how many deer have walked by me and I haven’t even noticed.
 
Being able to commit the amount of time on stand required is usually the issue.

Sometimes it works out quick, sometimes it’s cat and mouse all season and he’s juking when I’m jiving…

And then sometimes everything works out perfect and I just flat miss his a$$


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This is my ultimate goal now, to target a
specific buck if I have direct observation via camera or glassing. Otherwise what I believe to be a mature buck for the property or location I’m hunting without a first eye account of one. Ideally, I want to identify one on a pattern and take him that way early or late season before and/ or after the rut. It’s the one thing I really want to further develop my skill set doing. I’ve been close but all or most of all of my success has been rut hunting and I typically get Gaga over antlers and the killer instinct kicks in. There goes my target chance. I also think I was more caught up with method and numbers hunting for a long time too. I also used to do quite a bit of trapping and that consumed my time for a chunk of years instead of focusing on bowhunting big bucks.
 
Because of a total lack of cooperation. They just don’t show up to die when they are supposed to!!!

I’ve really never seen many worth specifically “targeting”. Grew up in North LA where most of the deer population die at a very young and tender age. Only specifically targeted one buck and I hunted him until I killed him. He was a 145 and that was the biggest buck I ever saw there. In VA now. Never really ran trail camera’s till last year. I’m hunting public and it’s not exactly a big buck meca. I realistic about what’s in the woods I hunt and I won’t be holding out for a booner. Just a nice decent racked buck will do.
 
Because I am terrible at learning how to find buck bedding areas.
I have near 1k acres to myself and have yet to come into close proximity to any of the bucks on my property in October. Always has been in November during the rut.

I also am limited to pretty much one day a weekend to hunt. I take a little pto during the rut, then it's ducks after Thanksgiving. There's many times I probably could have killed one of the bucks I was after in December/January. I'd rather hunt waterfowl though.
 
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