What has been your experience?

[Turkey Creek]

For some this might be a hot button issue (using trail cameras to benefit your hunting), so with that aside. If you have a decent buck chasing does at sundown on camera what has been your luck of successfully seeing that buck the following morning. I know there are a lot of variables. I am just trying to get a overall feel from others on their past experiences. I watched a good buck chasing does on one of my main plots from my dining room window LOL tonight at sundown. Have trail camera pics of him working a scrape on that same plot a few minutes before. I have never seen this buck on my place until tonight. Had work obligations this afternoon and didnt get home until about sundown. Wind is not really ideal for me in the morning. I still do not have a sure fire south wind stand. Its on the drawing board.... maybe after this Winter's habitat work it will be a possibility. So there is a slight-moderate risk I could educate some deer tomorrow if I hunted, but with that said it is that time of year. Hunt the morning in the chance that this buck is still on my place or wait a couple of days until the wind is more favorable for my farm?

 

[Mortenson]

I would hunt that buck without a doubt. Go in the morning. He might be here for a day or 2 then gone.

 

[Bill]

If it was early October I'd say stay out of there until the wind is perfect. It's November 1st. So they can be anywhere anytime. I'd hunt. Only once am I sure a trail cam helped me kill a buck that wasn't a local. Cruised by it in the AM and he was nice. Went there that afternoon and he was locked down with a doe and would not leave her side. Until I shot him. Showed the neighbor a picture and he was one of their regulars but they couldn't ever get on him.

 

[Catscratch]

3 days. That's how long a new buck sticks around (per my experience) once he's taken interest in a doe.

 

[4wanderingeyes]

You won’t get him sitting on the couch!

My land must be unique, because the deer don’t follow trails, or come from any certain direction. While my land is in the middle of a big woods, so I have no clue if they are coming from the north, south, east or west. So I never know which wind I shouldn’t hunt.

 

[Telemark]

I think all bets are off now. If there's a nice buck around, you should hunt it.

 

[Feelslikefar.]

My land must be unique, because the deer don’t follow trails, or come from any certain direction. While my land is in the middle of a big woods, so I have no clue if they are coming from the north, south, east or west. So I never know which wind I shouldn’t hunt.

That's me. "It's all feeding area and it's all bedding area!"

My cell cameras don't work when I'm there, so they're of no use as "active intel". When I set one up, I have to drive a half hour to town to make sure it's working.