Why hunting the lunch hour might be your best bet for tagging a good buck

We all know we should sit all day, but how many of us actually do it? Most hunters follow a predictable pattern when it comes to their sits, and predictability is what the bucks use to keep us from killing them. It’s pretty simple, really. But it requires us to think about life from the perspective of a prey animal. If you were a deer and you wanted to avoid a ride in the back of a side-by-side during the season, you’d figure out when to move and when to hole up. You’d also be acutely aware that the time window to pass on your genes is rapidly closing. The solve, at least for a lot of deer, is to go nocturnal, but also to move carefully when the fewest hunters should be in the woods. That often means midday is the least risky time for them to move, and if you’re willing to be out there, you might just get your shot. Low odds vs. no odds It’s cliched, but true: You can’t kill them from the couch. If you’re not out there in the woods with them, you’re not going to fill your tag. That rul