Every buck doesn't need to be a high scoring trophy buck. You're actually doing the herd disservice if you focus solely on score and not directly on age.

To me, a great hunter can go, dude, I don't have a pressure to shoot a buck. I don't need a buck to post.

There's nothing that, you know, is of the age class that I want to shoot.

So I'm just not going to shoot anything this year.

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land journey, their whitetail journey, cross the Midwest.

The expert panel includes Steve Hansen, Don Higgins, Bobby Kendall, Jeff Sturgis, Skip Sly, Bill

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To kick off the series, it's a question I feel all hunters face at some point.

Internally, externally, and the question is, do great hunters really shoot a buck every

single year?

The panel of experts I brought in, it seemingly feels like they shoot their target buck every

single year.

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