A little further down the road from Paradise

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Yeah I definitely get the nuance of camera surveys and while I agree that there factors that could lead to diminished returns, this isn’t one of them. I just don’t buy that only a handful of bucks and only a family group or two of does since August has visited 8 cameras. I may not pump out giants every year but I always had volume of bucks and tons of does. Like way too many. I’ve always stood by the belief that a buck will visit bait at the expense of all other food sources somewhat regularly. So to think they are just buried in the woods eating some green white oak acorns unfortunately doesn’t seem logical.
Oh well is what it is, hopefully I can pick up some cool racks and rebuild for the future.

 

[Bill]

I hope you are wrong. The neighbors and I saw about a 70 to 80 percent decrease in population last year. I have some decent bucks that moved back in but the overall deer numbers are still low. Cameras that literally got 100’s of pictures in the past get single and double digits today. (My cameras are set to 3 round bursts and 1 second delay). It’s going to take 2 more years at least to build up some inventory.

Again, I hope you are wrong because it sucks…

 

[b116757]

My deer numbers at the house at least seem lower than some years idk it fluctuates some I think maybe a slower cycle than say rabbit numbers but I think they do cycle.