Your main issue is 3 on 80 and hunting every weekend. If all I had to hunt was 80 acres and wanted to kill a mature, quality buck, I'd plant the best stuff I could, hunt it opening weekend, then not hunt it again until the rut. We hunt at 275 acres/gun and we might make 1-2 bow hunts, a gun hunt opening weekend, then we do not go back onto the property, at all, until around Jan 10-15th (depending on the weather) which is when our mature bucks typically start looking for does. After 40 yrs of hunting them and 25 yrs of actively managing for mature bucks, I've come to believe the following: Killing or having the opportunity to kill mature bucks, and hunting every weekend, even in high acreage situations, simply do not go together. You may luck out every once in a while and kill a good one, but if you want to be able to see and kill them consistently, you're limiting yourself to a very small number of hunts on any given property, and hunting only when the timing and conditions are perfect. This is especially true if you are surrounded by other high pressure hunting, which it sounds like you are.