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Originally Posted by Don K
Location is everything. If you don't have 200" WT living near your, you're not going to get one by baiting. Don't think baits come with teleport...
Cody kills big mulies cause he puts in a ton of time scouting and has great areas to hunt! He does however hunt a lot of agricultural land before harvest. Basically hunting the food source for mulies, then creating one (baits) to hunt whitetails. Nothing wrong with it, it's legal and it works.
But most importantly these guys all have great areas, good setups and time. That, and knowledge the have accrued from those 3 things, is what makes them successful. Baiting and a bit of luck likely just tip the odds a bit more in their favor.
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Excluding mule deer spotted from the road, time is spent feeding/baiting WT's and monitoring trail cameras. Good setups because of feeding/baiting the deer year 'round in a specific area. More like information than knowledge. A few years of feeding prime, genetically superior bucks the right "$tuff" and you could grow a 200+ inch Sask WT. By that time he just may be tame enough to see and kill around the feeding area during legal shooting time, especially outside of the rut in late Sept-early Oct or early Dec. I recall Dean Partridge stating he waits until a big buck starts showing up at the feeding area during legal light (this scouting info comes via trail cameras) and only then will he set up to harvest the buck. There are methods to increase the odds of big bucks coming into feed/bait during daylight and not just at night. There are ways to hunt around/not necessarily right on the bait for the big bucks. Bait hunting done correctly tips the odds more than a little. Sask outfitters/hunters have proven this. I know of more than a few giant Sask bucks taken with the aid of bait.
With regard to patterning/hunting big WT bucks, there is a difference between an unharvested 1/4 section grain field and 25-50 pounds of oats you place at a strategic time and location.