North Carolina Giant Jeff, in North Carolina, very likely knows where a Booner buck lives, thanks to this trail camera photo of a 13-pointer made late last September. Deer season has barely ended, and I've already begun planning for next season… by going back in time and reviewing last year's trail-camera photos. Jeff Sturgis, founder of Whitetail Habitat Solutions, has found similar success by hanging a grapevine as a licking branch. However, this should give you a pretty good indication of where your efforts should start in early season. "As the calendar approaches mid-summer, a great fever starts building in any serious whitetail hunter. Big Adirondack Buck at a Scrape. I'm looking for deer that I have a history with or that are showing up often enough to catch my attention. Sleeping Giant It was nearly 10 p. during last November's rut in Missouri when hunter "Randy" got this Moultrie trail camera photo of a huge buck bedded down, but alert, near a scrape. Hopefully, the deer will venture out to the food plots and fields more this season than last. Kent states he has no less than 50 photos of the bucks, one a 9-pointer, the other a gigantic 17-point trophy. It should be a great fall hunt and an exciting spring season next year. If you fall into the category that more than 80% of your mature buck pictures are during the middle of the night, you are not alone; in fact the majority of your neighbors are most likely in the same boat. The 14-pointer may have 200-inches of antler. A bunch of bucks on trail camera.
Bucks On Trail Cam
Keeping the camera well-hidden and a good distance (at least 15 feet) away from the scrape will usually keep deer comfortable at the location. Look very closely at the first photo you get in an evening series. Deer prefer thick cover and South facing slopes for daytime bedding areas. This is a fat old boy. Many of you will recognize some of these bucks from last year and with a little luck, some of you will have a close encounter with them in the months to come! Traveling in the snow. Often these clues are cause for more investigating, but that's to be expected. After you've identified the major entry funnels, your job now is to work backwards toward daytime bedding areas. Buck Fight A hunter named Kent in Brown County, Kansas sent this photo of two buster bucks fighting it out last January near a Moultrie feeder. Trail cameras played a key role in the hunt for Loppy. So much so, we back up purchases on our website with our 90-day, no questions asked guarantee. Does your ratio have room to improve? "I don't know what it is, maybe it's the sap that the holds the scent more, " Cisco said.
Big Bucks On Trail Camera
Another thing to focus on in these types of forested areas is browse pressure on native vegetation. Whether or not baiting or scents are allowed in your state, I'd encourage you to consider using a scrape for your next trail camera site. Here are 5 ways you can actually spook the very buck you're chasing when using a trail cameras. Even if I don't fill my tag, I'm in a better position to season my tag soup with some great encounters. At this point, I will move the camera(s) closer to the perceived entry/exit areas and adjust camera programming to capture both time-lapse and motion activated photos at the same time. "As opening day approaches, often we find our fever has progressed into a serious sickness. When I'm scouting a new area I'll hang a time-lapse camera overlooking an entire food plot/field and program it to take photos every minute during prime feeding hours. Click off on any one photo to see a larger size of that photo. Every once in a while I'll come across a setup which is absolutely perfect in every way except the prevailing wind direction. You can see him below. Obviously, this buck isn't one of Santa's reindeer. We will work our hardest to put you in the best position for a successful hunt. However, if you take that same approach with your trail camera reconnaissance you're in for a rude awakening.
Trail Cam Pics Of Big Buck Danny
But more importantly, you can't build next year's strategy for a buck that wasn't killed last season. Many hunters run inventory cameras during the summer and early fall to get a sense of the overall size of the deer herd and the buck "inventory" on a property they plan to hunt. After examining all these data, I have all the information I need to plan my moves next season. His core had moved another quarter-mile farther west and his early season behavior remained nocturnal. We're seeing double on this one. You'll get photos of deer. Privacy Statement, Terms Of Use.
Knowing this giant Ohio buck with kicker points is living in your hunting woods would keep any sportsmen enthused. With time to slow down and study photos in the off-season, I look for unique antler features such as unusually shaped brow tines or forked G-2s or body markings like scars or double throat patches.