You should also know that guys who always bring home big bucks don't often bring them home on their first day in the woods--it just seems like that because we didn't hear about the 28 times they sat in a stand all day before actually killing the brute.
Perhaps the toughest aspect of being a big buck hunter is the realization that a buck of the caliber you wish to take doesn't even exist on the land you are hunting.
Five Principles Of A Big-Buck Hunter: Killing giants doesn't come by luck
It could prove a forlorn hope as it is not a challenge to faze a trainer with a notable pedigree for excelling with his senior stars or one that concerns the horse's new partner, the 21-year-old Sam Twiston-Davies, who is in no way daunted by the responsibility of replacing Ruby Walsh, who rode Big Buck's to 16 of his last 18 wins.
Big Buck's has proved one of the successes of trials day, capturing the Cleeve in the World Hurdle-winning campaigns of 2009 and 2012, in stark contrast to the PS100,000 Argento Chase, which although won by nexttime-out Cheltenham Gold Cup winners Master Oats in 1995 and Looks Like Trouble in 2000 has yet to yield a placed finisher in the Gold Cup since the fixture's rebranding.
Back at last - but rivals will probe to find a flaw; OPENING SHOW
BUCKS FIZZ:
Big Bucks (left) jumps past Battlecry to score at Aintree last year
Horse Racing: TURKO RETURNS; NICHOLLS STRONG HAND IN HENNESSY AGAIN Stewart's grey is back for Hall
He guides dozens of hunters to
big bucks each year, and of course, he employs trail cams.
The trail cam trap: are you relying too much on trail cam photos and forgetting to just hunt?
Five lengths separated
Big Buck's from stablemate Five Dreams at the end of the eightyear-old's 13th consecutive win over hurdles, a feat famously achieved by 1970s icon Bula.
WINNING MACHINE; Big Buck's matches Bula with 13th straight victory
Big Bucks has raced three times this season, hitting his customary flat spot most noticeably last time, when ultimately powering clear of Dynaste in the Cleeve Hurdle, over an inadequate trip here in January.
FOUR'S ALL THE RAGE.. AGAIN; Bucks will equal achievement of Quevega
Only seven,
Big Buck's seems to have been around for ages, although this is only his third season in Britain.
BIG AND BEAUTIFUL
* Hunters are often conditioned to think that
big bucks will do just one thing under certain sets of conditions.
Forgotten insight: still struggling to fill your tag? Slow down and rethink your situation
BIG BUCK'S looks a banker on the third day of the Cheltenham Festival.
BIG BUCK'S WILL CASH IN; CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL: DAY 3 PETER O'HEHIR PREVIEWS ALL THE ACTION
BIG BUCK'S, probably the most solid of the 'Ditcheat Three' completed by Master Minded and Kauto star, looks a rock-solid proposition to retain the title he won 12 months ago.
Rock-solid Buck's is primed to take the World title again
H ere it is folks, the brightest
big bucks bingo bonanza in town, with the Mirror's newest star - Shane Richie, host of tonight's ITV show Lucky Numbers.
WIN WITH SHANE TONIGHT 7.00PM; EYES DOWN FOR THE BIG BUCKS BINGO BONANZA WITH THE
The Truth[R] 11-Big Bucks is 4 hours of
big buck hunting bliss.
Primos[R] releases two new videos
This is the third year in a row that I've raffled in a
big buck from the same woodlot.
A NATURAL HIGH