Trailcam pics
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Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
In 2 years I’ve never gotten a turkey on this plot. Been sad. Today broke the drought. Maybe it’s optimism but I’ve seen more birds this deer season than any of the last 7 years in ky.
Gravel Road
5 year old buck +
Action shot 
fishin coyote
5 year old buck +
Gravel, looks like he has a bad eye also
BuckSutherland
5 year old buck +
That's a big 10-4.
I haven't made the hunting opener in about 5 years. This year was no different. I had 5 cameras out from Labor Day until the rifle season closed last Sunday and then I finally checked them. My 40 was not hunted for the first 5 days of the season and had no human intrusion for nearly 65 days. By the time I got there it was completely blown out by everyone else in the neighborhood. My cameras showed pretty good activity all the way to opening day and then action slowed dramatically. Give me superior cover over all the food in the world cause when the shit hits the fan the deer by us are completely hidden and gone until 12-3am. The few deer that I did see this year were the most skittish deer I have ever seen.
Monday morning I woke up to 3" of fresh snow. I went for a walk in the woods to see what the deer were doing. They were mostly headed 1/2-3/4 of a mile away from everyone deep into the Chippewa forest. The stuff they were moving through was so thick it was hard to walk in. You couldn't shoot 10 feet in the stuff they were in. Good news is we have a fair amount of very educated bucks that survived. Doe and fawn population is very thin in the area and a far cry from what it used to be. Wish our zone was bucks only. We could sure use it. People would actually be seeing some deer if our population wasn't completely in the toilet. The MN DNR shit sandwiches continues for our hunters.
BuckSutherland
5 year old buck +
T-Max
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You are taking the tree tubes vs cages argument to the extreme!
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Foggy47
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I've been thinking about starting a new thread on "how to provide cover in foodplots to prevent nocturnal deer issues".........or something to that effect. It's just amazing how few deer present themselves as the gun season starts. I have not had a single photo of a daytime deer (buck, doe, or fawn) in three plus weeks. Firearms opening weekend has become the only chance to shoot a deer without being a violator......unless you hunt deep cover. <----that is almost a must these days.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Deer go nocturnal here in Pa. too. It usually starts when archery season is a few days old in October, when daylight sightings go down the tube. The evening food plot visits with light are mostly young deer. Backtracking the trails that come to food plots / orchards will tell you where the deer are hiding out until a couple hours after dark - and it may be a good distance. Gun season here ........ I swear they go underground in tunnels. Even crews of drivers often don't jump any deer. Spring, summer, early fall - - - live deer sightings are easy, on cams too. Put some human activity & "people stink" in the woods ..... nocturnal they go.
Electrodigical
5 year old buck +
Now that I have a small patch of land I can finally start my experiments. lol
I took a bar of Irish Spring soap, rubbed it all over a tree, then stuck the rest in the crotch of the tree. Checked the cam three weeks later and there wasn't any less or any more pictures than usual. (surprised) I want to try some dirty socks and underwear, maybe an old pair of shoes.
I've always semi joked about putting aftershave in a drip bottle and leaving it in the woods year round. Get the deer used to it. Then on opening day you slap some on and head out.
Sort of reverse phycology / gorilla warfare.
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Gravel Road
5 year old buck +
Yes, he only has one eye.I guess the depth perception isn't too bad
It's funny how someone says the rut is late or they didn't have a rut.It happens every year and depending on weather and pressure determines alot of how much is seen during the day.If you aren't seeing deer on cams I would put up more cams in other directions and see if there are still deer there.More and more deer are avoiding cams,especially flash cams.Pre rut was the same as always and lock down happened and then alot of bucks were moving again during what is usually thanksgiving week which fell alittle on late side this year.
Foggy47
5 year old buck +
I've got plenty of deer around.....but they do not enter a food plot or use any trails during daylight hours. They keep a pretty low profile for the past few weeks. I do not have a daylight pic of a deer in over three weeks. Making me re-think our hunting strategies and stand placement going forward. Not to mention adding more tall vegetation to our food plots for better security. Less food / more cover.
We did have quite a few active daytime pics and deer through opening weekend. Nobody hunted for 10 days that followed. Then my son in law and a freind spent 3 days hunting......and saw none. And my cameras remain in the same place they were.....and now deliver no daytime pics. There is a definite pattern here.....and it happens each year. We need to hunt heavier cover....and I made some changes to that idea this year that paid off. Next year gonna do more. Hunting more cover is our future. Maybe some still hunts too? Dunno. I used to hunt that way.....with a degree of success.
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Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
That’s interesting. Hows the pressure around you? Unfortunately deer dont operate in a vacuum so while you may have been careful on your place the neighbors could have been relentless and it has them tunneling like the viet cong. I would think they would return to a more normal pattern within a few days after the pressure subsiding. I’ve listened to some researchers say even deer on heavily hunted public land generally return to a normal pattern mid week after a heavily hunted weekend. I don’t think deer naturally want to be nocturnal so it would seem to me there’s something making them.
I’m in a heavily hunted area and rifle season just ended Sunday. I’m still getting plenty of daylight activity, even mid day stuff
I’m in a heavily hunted area and rifle season just ended Sunday. I’m still getting plenty of daylight activity, even mid day stuff
BenAllgood
5 year old buck +
Hunting pressure is relative. I've hunted in several parts of Louisiana where you're lucky to see deer on a hunt or get daylight pictures. In Kentucky, it's like night and day. I see deer in daylight even after their short rifle season.
I went a different direction, I slather myself in deer piss all year long. I figured why not....Now that I have a small patch of land I can finally start my experiments. lol
I took a bar of Irish Spring soap, rubbed it all over a tree, then stuck the rest in the crotch of the tree. Checked the cam three weeks later and there wasn't any less or any more pictures than usual. (surprised) I want to try some dirty socks and underwear, maybe an old pair of shoes.
I've always semi joked about putting aftershave in a drip bottle and leaving it in the woods year round. Get the deer used to it. Then on opening day you slap some on and head out.
