How do you hunt bucks during the peak rut?
How do you hunt bucks during the peak rut? My favorite tactic for hunting the Peak Rut is to take a stand between well-known doe bedding areas during the morning hours, and on the downwind side of food sources during the evening hours. How do you lure big bucks during the rut? An estrous-based scent smells like a doe that's ready to breed. Bucks cover lots of ground searching for that odor, so use it to your advantage. Dominant-buck scents smell like a mature buck, which can make other bucks aggressively seek a fight. Mock scrapes can also work during...