Hunting the rut means knowing when to gamble and when to hold tight. The risk vs. reward weighs heavy at this time of year. What move will you make?... Read more... The post Hunting the Rut: Risk vs. Reward appeared first on Bowhunting.com. Continue reading...
Sorry if this sounds combative, that's not my intention, just trying to help out. I love the concept and it's really well written. You can pretty much get by with anything during the rut, very little if any risk at all, you can literally run a side-by-side back and forth through the bedding all day long, come back in the morning, and shoot a mature buck in that very location...and this is not the exception, it's the norm. Now, push the "risk vs reward" outside the rut, pre and post, and this blog is spot on. I like the concept of "risk vs reward", I always referred to it as a "calculated risk"...one of the many layers in a layered approach. I've come to employee a passive-aggressive technique best described as a series of "calculated risks". I identify my target...(passively), then go in and get it...(aggressively). This is just another layer, in the layered approach, staggered intell with low impact recon, then all or nothing, straight in for the kill. If I don't connect, I cut my losses, regroup, and come at it from another angle. I don't do this for lack of time, I do it because I like shooting mature buck's, lol. Thing are every changing and those windows of opportunity appear and disappear quickly, when one opens take advantage of it.
