How would you go about hunting a 7.5-8 year old buck . Have pics of a deer from 2016 as a 4.5 yo 135” 8 point. Got out of running cams on that property until this year and he is still alive and is a 155-160” beast of an 8 point same spot as 3 years ago . Rut is dec 24- Jan 3 respectively, but I just don’t know if I can wait that long to hunt him . I can access and hunt him from a distance on most variations of a north wind and know within 20 or so acres of where he usually beds but it is 99% impenetrable and he’s pretty untouchable in there .

As far away as possible

Get in the thicket and kill him on the ground. 1%

Run some dogs up in there!

155 or 160 inch 8 point? That is a big boy

Can you post a picture of him?

Wait until you have the needed wind. Hunt from afar and go after him as many times as you can. Those older deer love that core area and rarely leave it but he will walk the edges or follow a doe out or ease out a bit early one night. Do not go in his area imo

We had one like that with 5 years of pictures and could never see him. We hunted scrapes, bedding area and hunted hard during the rut and he was on cameras so he was always there. One of the guys went down one day during the week on a slow warm day just to kill time and buck walked out into the middle of the green field and started feeding. Dumb luck.

Yes it is. A really good friend of mine killed this 155" 8 point Sunday morning here in Missouri on a farm his dad bought the first part of year. First pic is a crappy cell phone pic.

Stay away from him till the rut then hunt every moment you can.

I’ll post a tailgate pic of him if I kill him lol . . Yea he’s real similar to that deer just maybe a bit wider . I may have been a little high at 160... I’ll still say 155” though ..

Beautiful buck there Swampy! I hunted around Jamestown, Missouri for 4 years. It's a small town about 30 miles from Jefferson City. Where about's in Missouri are you hunting?

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That is a Stud there Swampy!

x 1,000. This is your best bet at getting this buck. And even then, you need to make sure you’ve got the right wind. Otherwise you’ll alert him to your presence and he’ll be gone.

We have killed three 7.5 to 8.5 year old bucks in the past three years. All three were killed in the final weekend of the season, and all three were killed in food plots while chasing does, at a time when the "rut" had already come and gone. Don't know what that means, but that has been our experience.

the best time to kill an old buck is at the tail end of the rut when fewer does are hot.

^^^^^ just before breeding gets started , use the element of surprise. You have to wait till he's on his feet in daylight. Get in there screwing around now and he may not move in daylight at all.

Man drive it the last Sunday afternoon of hunting season.

On public land id hop in there with him. But on my lease id probably put zero pressure on him until the rut. Sit all day, because they have to get up sometime during the day. He may only go 20 yards from his bed but thats 20 yards closer to you if your set up correctly that could give you a shot at him