Had a shooter on trail camera Nov 20,21,24 between 5-630am. I know which direction he is coming from in the mornings. I have an idea where he is bedding. I also know I saw this buck chasing. Watched him come out of a fence row which I will be set up in tomorrow morning. I feel I have been right in his wheel house for a couple weeks. He is NOT all busted up. I think I have been too aggressive with rattling, and trying to call bucks in the last couple weeks. IF. . . .my theory is right, I feel I can close the gap a little more and "maybe" get lucky. Tomorrow I plan on sliding into the stand around 530am and beat him from where he has been coming in. Moon is overhead at 658am. Seems the last 5 days he has been showing up later and later. IF this is due to the changing times of the moon being overhead, then he should be coming thru around 6-630am on trail camera and roughly 630-7am to his bedding area (close to the stand I will be hunting). Wind will be in my favor for this stand. Just need to get in early. If I cannot get in early enough, I have another stand which is closer I can slide into with zero noise. It will be for observing and implementing this plan Wednesday.
This IS deer hunting. I could be 100% wrong. I am not "calling my shot". Just putting pieces of the puzzle together. Nothing more. Put the pieces together and hope for a little luck and the right shot.