I have hunted deer in the Midwest with a bow for 25 years and I can tell you a mature buck is anything but naive, rut or not. Once the crops are out they pretty much go nocturnal. If you think that bowhunting big bucks from a tree stand is easy it's because you've watched to many shows where the deer are probably fenced in. Don't mean to offend anyone, but for the average bowhunter getting a mature buck on the limited land he is allowed to hunt aint easy. Took me 5 years to get my first one with a recurve.
