He believes the late season is the best time of year to intentionally harvest a mature buck, provided you have good food and undisturbed bedding areas.

“Now I believe that the late season is the very best time of the year to to kill a mature buck on purpose. But the key is you you've got to you've got to have a good food source, and and you've got to have an undisturbed bedding location.”

He advocates for an active approach to tracking bucks in the snow by covering significant distances.

“First thing is that you got to keep moving. I've had days I've gone all day and won't even pick up the big track I want. Got to be willing to walk. Maybe it's 10 miles a day, whatever it is. You're not willing to do that, you're probably not going to be a tracker.”

He suggests focusing on transition corridors between bedding and feeding areas, emphasizing that security cover is necessary for daylight movement.

“The most consistently productive method of hunting during the late season is to concentrate your efforts on hunting transition corridors between known bedding areas and feeding locations such as mast or fruit trees that still have food in the ground or crop fields if in an agricultural area.”

He disputes the common advice to avoid morning hunts, asserting that successful morning hunts are possible if you properly account for access and sound.

“When you're talking about late season bow hunting, we kind of default back to a mindset that we have during September and early October where they say, "Don't hunt the mornings. There's no way to get in and all you do is damage your spots." Anyone who knows me knows that I think that's total bunk.”