The author believes that deliberately not hunting to focus on prep work and scouting is essential for hunters to have repeated success on mature bucks. This strategy helped him tag this nice Michigan buck during the early archery season. (Photo courtesy of Adam Lewis)
October 02, 2025
By Adam Lewis
The old cliché, “You can’t kill ‘em from the couch,” is one that has infiltrated the mind of the hunting masses for decades, and it’s dead wrong. I hear it quoted dozens of times each season, and though not sure of its origin, I am sure of this: if we could travel back in time and stop it at the source, a lot of hunters would be more successful.
Why? Because this motto being passed down through generations of hunters has kept many bucks alive by promoting uninformed hunting and overhunting — the death knells of harvesting whitetail.
The fact is, you can and should do most of your killing from the couch; and if you want to become a...
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