Mid- and late-season bucks in areas that receive even moderate hunting pressure are notoriously difficult to hunt. They are trip-wire skittish and conditioned by hunting pressure into becoming nocturnal. I found myself faced with one of those nocturnal nightmares a couple of seasons ago. After weeks of playing a one-sided game of cat and mouse—one which I continually lost—I realized that the only way to get close to the big 10-pointer I was after was to go for broke. Somehow I’d need to catch him in a staging area before dark. However, when I couldn’t pinpoint the precise location he was using, the time came to get creative and construct one with the hope that he’d be attracted to it. I hatched a plan.