This will be my first year trying to pattern a specific deer. Pretty exciting but I could really use some help. Here is a link to a thread I started that has more details. Thanks!! http://forums.bowhunting.com/showthread.php?38348-Got-pictures-of-a-buck-moving-at-night-Now-what
Okay first of all unless you're in an unpressured spot where this buck can move as he wishes to water, food and sleep every single day, with the exact same wind and weather patterns daily...you cannot pattern him. However as you study sighting up him and signs you find you suspect are his you can begin to collect data explaining what his instincts are telling him to do given all the factors. Deer will move according to their instincts...example. Last year I killed a buck moving back towards our foodplots/acorn trees instead of the corn due to the weather. It was a straight west wind...which given where I knew he bedded (most likely, not a sure thing) I knew he'd move quartering into the wind which would lead him right to the stand location...any other wind he wouldn't have ever moved that way because the wind wouldn't have been favorable for his survival. Now if the rut was in and a hot doe was in front of him, he may have threw out all reason and been too horny to be smart...but I don't hunt on luck if I can help it...I prefer highest percentage spots.
