Recent content by BenA

Why not shoot a buck?

My stolen camera was returned and back in action. They came back and put it at the bottom of the tree. My farmer found it and put it back up for me.

No. The deputy said he tried to pick him up, but couldn't make contact. He was going to try again yesterday. He gave me a link so I could see the incoming arrests at the jail where he was going to take him. I haven't seen his name popup yet.

It gets a lot of attention lately on the internet, but major funnels and pinch points seem to be excellent spots during the rut. I've seen bucks I've never had on camera going through funnel areas, even ones that get very little activity during the rest of the season. And, they can be...

I don't believe so. It seems to be just 3 brothers that live by themselves in an old rundown house.

I haven't. I met one of the brothers one time. He seemed like there might be something off with him. I talked to a neighbor that said there have been problems with them sneaking around and taking stuff before.

There's 3 brothers that live across the road from my property. The place is really run down. I think the place is in some type of trust left from their parents and the taxes are paid out from a local bank. Apparently, they have been known to do this type of thing. Yeah, the sheriff said, "Well...

Not the kind of pics I was wanting to see today, much less having a camera out of commission right now. Luckily, I was able to find out who it is and called the law.

Congratulations! That's a trophy!

I've seen that mentioned a few times about the effectiveness of thermal being greatly diminished in warmer temps or significant canopy. Hopefully, the technology will advance to overcome that limitation. It would be really nice to be able to survey deer populations at any time of year to get...

Auburn just had a research article accepted for publishing on transect methods for evaluating deer densities using thermal drones. They concluded the line transects done with the right spacing can give precise estimates for deer densities in an area. I don't think anyone questioned that, but...

They like the mowed strips @Native Hunter

Just some of my observations... Treat him like inventory or an investment. What's his carrying cost of leaving him on the shelf? Is his value to you going to increase the longer he stays there? Or, is he taking up shelf space that you'd rather to devote to something else? It depends on how...

There's a few different wagons he's pulling around there.

They treat this old field like a food plot. Edit: Ended up seeing 7 or 8 deer. That doe had twin buck fawns. There were a couple of yearling bucks that sparred a bunch. They didn't have a care in the world .