817 - Do Mature Bucks Recognize Your Stand?

817 - Do Mature Bucks Recognize Your Stand?

August 13, 2026 · 1h 24m · Season 1 · Episode 817

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The episode discusses whether mature bucks can recognize hunting stands and explores various hunting strategies and deer behavior.

Can a mature buck actually recognize your treestand, your climber, or your trail cameras? Andrew opens this one with a story about the biggest buck he'd ever seen in bow range — a buck that stepped out, locked onto the base of the tree he was sitting in, and eased off without a sound. It never saw him. It never smelled him. So what gave him away? From there, Andrew and Jacob work through a stack of your questions from Circle and the website. Classic Thursday Q&A — straight from you guys. In this episode: Do deer recognize your treestand & trail cameras? The buck that busted Andrew's climber — and what gave him away Shooting houses, box blinds & the black-window trick Why you're giving mature bucks too many chances to learn you Will a mature buck abandon his home range under pressure? The good bucks you never knew were on your property Could you actually pressure a buck out of his core? Do deer relocate, or just shut down and go thick? You jumped your target buck scouting — now what? Scouting in August & September on familiar ground Finding a bachelor group in a cool creek bottom Are you putting your trail cameras in the wrong spots? Cameras on feed trees: before…

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