Pressured W T bucks can be VERY spooky and I have gone weeks NOT seeing one - when they were NOCTURNAL..
Jerry
I'm not pressing for W T bucks, I'd just like to give one example.
@ 1998 or so I was hunting w/my long time friend and hunting pard. We had seen NO bucks and few does.
One morning I was moving from point A to point B still hunting. It was between 7 -7:30 AM
I just happened to intersect a moving buck headed to bed down for the day !!!!
I shot him w/my 7 RM in the neck at 140 yds, later measured. I took him to a running creek to field dress and then thru in the creek to quickly cool him down. Afterwards I cut his stomach open to see what he'd been eating. To my surprise there was nothing in his stomach except POLK berries.
Everything was P Bs and everything was PURPLE.
That's the first time I saw a stomach FULL of P B (not peanut butter). There were no discernible leaves, twigs, acorns or anything else.
W/in a few yards he would have been in brush where he would not have been visible.
How do I remember so well? He IS the only 9 pt. I have ever killed.
Jerry
