Making your mind up to kill mature animals is everything but you also have to hunt where there are mature animals.
Luck plays a big part but the above makes the odds better.
You have to make your mind up that you want mature animals and don't shoot the first average buck that comes along.
The more hours in the woods the better your odds.
I go in 30-45 minutes before daylight and sit until 20 or 30 minutes after legal shooting light. Legal light here is 30 minutes after sunset so I am in about an hour after sunset.
ALL DAY SITS.
I start the all day deal from around Halloween until the end of our firearms season. I believe it is 5 of my last 6 bucks have been killed from 10:30sh through 2:30/3:30.
May eat tag soup this year if I don't get a crack at a good one in alternative season that starts somewhere around Christmas day until Jan 4. No biggie though as the 2 I passed opening morning will just be bigger next year as long as the survived this firearms season.
