Recent content by bueller

Don't fear it, embrace it. I did well over 100 miles on a snowmobile the last two days with 18" of snow on the ground, below zero air temp and -30 wind chills.

Start measuring deer by number of points instead of inches. It becomes a fun challenge to target some of the bucks with odd numbers of points. I doubt that even many of us can check all the boxes for numbers 1-10.

I picked the right day but wrong stand. Target buck walked right past my food plot stand while I was in the woods about 100 yards away. Everybody says don't hunt food in the morning....blah blah blah 😁

Way less than 1 deer per hour of hunting for me. I didn't keep a log this year but seeing zero deer on a sit is not uncommon at all. Seeing a single buck or group of 2-3 doe is typically a good sit.

Some of these terms seem to support this scenario. Hunter shoots world record animal and the money train starts rolling. Hunter shares trail cam photos of said animal and including the camera manufacturer name or identifier. Manufacturer throws the flag and wants their cut of the cash flow.

Anyone who is breaking game laws and using cameras, especially cloud storage based cell cams, is potentially providing evidence of their actions. Cameras and cards "could" be collected and searched. Court orders "could" be written for data (photos/videos) and served upon your cell camera...

Slick tricks for me also. Using them on aluminum bolts with high success.

I've never found a shed so maybe this is the year! Usually the bucks are long gone by now other than a pass through.

On the contrary I typically don't have a whole lot of deer on my place once winter settles in. This year I'm still seeing plenty. Once the snow comes I'm sure that will change.

The two top bucks I had consistent pictures of this season have survived. Never saw them in person. Whether their racks gain anything next year remains to be seen but regardless they are shooters for us.

Some of my non-hunting friends have been sending me links to "zombie deer" articles for years. I never open them.

God forbid anybody with too many deer on their property invite someone that wants/needs venison step foot on their paradise to harvest one.

I find these types of studies super interesting but there are so many factors in play that make each micro location different from each other. We run multiple cameras year round on two parcels less than 1 mile center to center from each other and we typically never see a mature buck frequenting...

I umped boys baseball and it was fine for the most part. One day they were short an ump for girls softball so I got roped in. Holy crap, without a doubt the girls softball coaches were the worst! Never did that again.

They destroyed great deer habitat on the federal lands by me to create large oak savannas which are not great deer habitat, way too open. On the flip side any small meadow type openings with Pennsylvania sedge covering the ground are typically loaded with beds.