Last week we watched as my friend Steve shot The Big Ten Buck sitting on a bucket, covered in a sheet, left-handed. This supports a point we made earlier in the season: shoot your situation.

With this, the final episode of DSI for the year, we’re visiting the property of another good friend of mine, Steve Kelly. Steve loves to chase good deer. But that instinct almost jammed him up on this Big Ten buck.

Last week we showed you how Laura managed to kill the Double Main buck in a textbook ag-land deer funnel. This week we’re joining her husband Jason on the same property, tracking another big deer.

Last week we saw how Steve was successful by moving off the food sources and into the deer travel corridors. Finding these highways and byways through your property is an important piece of master planning your fall hunt.

By drawing contamination circles around all the stands he hunted, and highlighting his paths of approach, he was able to see gaps that the deer moved through.

The story of Stickers, as she called him, goes back four years when he showed up on a wooded food plot. Tracy took a shotgun shot and missed. That was the last mistake Stickers would make for a long time.

Knowing what buck you're going to target starts with knowing what deer are on your property. There's no better way to do that then with a trail camera survey. But getting good pictures takes more than set-and-forget.

This week we're going to look at a deer I named after the kill. We watched this buck grow up on our farm, but it wasn't until his personality change in his sixth year that he earned the name Flipper. His flip in personality was so extreme it seemed fitting.

A landscape developer, Jim wanted to know how he could apply his trade toward shooting bigger, more mature, deer.

Earlier this week we saw how Jim has had continued success on his small piece of hunting property thanks largely to landscape design – deer-scaping. Much of that has to do with proper food plot development.