After months of sitting on the sidelines, most hunters are chomping at the bit to tag a good buck. But one key to doing so is to exercise patience when necessary, waiting for the best times to become aggressive as a hunter. (Lynn Burkhead photo)
By Lynn Burkhead, OutdoorChannel.com
Like a heavyweight boxer charging into the middle of the ring when the opening bell sounds, there is an understandable rush into the deer woods when the law comes off of the annual autumn bowhunting campaigns around the country.
After all, it's been the better part of 10 months since most archers have climbed into a treestand with an unused deer tag sitting in their back pocket.
And every autumn, social media lights up in those first few days of the season with photos of gloriously big bucks that some lucky hunter has knocked down. Be it a post on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat or Twitter, the onrush of big buck images seems to literally send Deer Nation into a big antlered...