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Post by terrifictom on Aug 5, 2017 20:59:27 GMT -6
The last couple years I used Trailcams on my land. I knew I had a couple really good bucks using my land. I passed every thing waiting for one of them to show up passing some good bucks that I should have shot. This year I pulled my cams in early June. I think I am going to not put any Trailcams Out and just hunt. Am I crazy, any body else do this?
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Post by Catscratch on Aug 5, 2017 21:26:20 GMT -6
Not crazy at all, I do the same thing. I have exactly 1 trailcam and it seldom leaves the yard. When it does move it isn't to a hunting spot. I have a lot more fun not knowing what to "wait" for.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Aug 6, 2017 1:22:52 GMT -6
If I only had a few good bucks on the property, not only would I not run cameras, I would stay away from my property for 3 months before the rut!
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Post by Reagan on Aug 6, 2017 7:08:39 GMT -6
I keep a camera on a salt lick and on a plot. This lets me see bucks and identify a couple that I may see from year to year. I put them on a convenient scrape in the fall.
I don't run them in areas that really help me kill them. Patterning a buck in my woods is next to impossible.
If a buck gets me excited when I see him from a stand, I'm shooting. I've learned killing a particular deer is a fools game with my property and amount of time to hunt.
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Post by smsmith on Aug 6, 2017 8:20:28 GMT -6
Not crazy at all. That's how everybody used to hunt I can envision the day I quit running cams
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Post by wklman on Aug 6, 2017 8:50:31 GMT -6
It's fun to have a cam out on my property. I limit it to only one on a mineral lick or feeder though for each place. Anymore then that and I believe it's too much intrusion. The bucks may stay clear of it after getting their first pic but don't leave the area.
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Post by Satchmo on Aug 6, 2017 11:29:47 GMT -6
At this point, I have way too much fun running cams to not do it. They are just another way for me to enjoy my property. Besides trying to get shots of the nicer bucks around, they allow me to monitor fawn survival, coyote & bear populations, and alert me to when the wolves move down in to our area. I mainly put them on plots and the edges of my sanctuary areas.
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Post by biglakebass on Aug 6, 2017 18:34:27 GMT -6
I will never stop using them. Way too fun for me. Seen things I would never know even existed.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Aug 6, 2017 19:04:34 GMT -6
I will never stop using them. Way too fun for me. Seen things I would never know even existed. If it weren't for trail cam in my yard last year, I would never had known 10 different 10 pointers and up were using my cedar tree in the back yard as a community rub tree and licking branch. Now I have a live camera on that tree 24 hours a day. Extremely fun to watch all these different bucks come and go you never knew were in the area. Here is one of the videos from last fall. You can see me sitting at the dining room table. LOL!
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Post by Bwoods11 on Aug 7, 2017 8:22:07 GMT -6
I don't think I could get away from trail cams, but I do think they can make or break a property, especially a small farm. I know a guy that didn't hunt his farm one year, because he had nothing "nice" on camera. I thought that was extreme?
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Post by badbrad on Aug 7, 2017 8:25:20 GMT -6
I don't think I could get away from trail cams, but I do think they can make or break a property, especially a small farm. I know a guy that didn't hunt his farm one year, because he had nothing "nice" on camera. I thought that was extreme? Very much so. Cameras still only tell you part of the picture. I often times hunt and see deer with my eyes on a food plot and think I got a picture of that deer on the camera and then check that card and find out that cam did not get a picture of that deer. That tells me cameras miss things. A lot of things.
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Post by smsmith on Aug 7, 2017 8:59:36 GMT -6
I pretty much count on the fact that my cams will not get pics of the largest buck(s) that use/pass through my property.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Aug 7, 2017 9:53:40 GMT -6
I can tell you some bucks are very good at bypassing cameras, and deer hunters for that matter. The monster I filmed in the beans two years ago has never been on trail camera that I know of, or at least the neighbors have never said. I know he has crossed all over our lease for 4 years with not a picture. He was hungry one jan afternoon and exposed himself in the broad daylight so I could film him, but only once.
I do like running cameras to see the different characteristics the bigger ones have before hunting starts. I have 18 different bucks coming into one mineral site alone, with 2 for sure shooters for me, and 3 possibles. When the rut starts, i will be able to know at a glance if its the buck i want. No guessing, as they can come by in a hurry.
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Post by jbird on Aug 7, 2017 11:04:30 GMT -6
I don't have a single mount where I have the deer on camera. I have a cam or two out, but the nice bucks I get are roamers. I see what I like and shoot it. I don't wait for a particular buck unless I have actually laid eyes on him. I use my cams more for doe inventory and to see if particular projects are having an impact. I figure when I see the right deer - I'll know!
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Post by biglakebass on Aug 7, 2017 11:11:03 GMT -6
I don't have a single mount where I have the deer on camera. I have a cam or two out, but the nice bucks I get are roamers. I see what I like and shoot it. I don't wait for a particular buck unless I have actually laid eyes on him. I use my cams more for doe inventory and to see if particular projects are having an impact. I figure when I see the right deer - I'll know! Last thing I am going to do is wait for one buck because I have it on cam...... If I see a new one that tickles my fancy, no stopping me.
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