Oak Duke: Tactics for hunting a trickle rut

The call came in to my wife from one of her friends, “tell Oak there is a big buck in my front lawn, down by the woods, and it is just standing there, looking down at a little doe that is lying down! Is she hurt?”
“And what’s more,…” she added excitedly, “… is a little buck, 4-pointer, I think, that is walking around them!”
Lockdown. Ironic, but the same day as I was driving up to a hunting spot on a dirt road, there stood a nice 7-point buck staring off into space, transfixed.

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