Some of these include detection range, trigger speed, flash range, field of view, and more. Is scouting by trail cam the best way to scout for a mature buck? Furthermore, the use of trail cameras helps reveal the largest bucks on the landscape, effectively encouraging users to pass younger deer. A trail cam pic of an individual mature buck, offers you an intimate look into the wanderings of one of the most rarest, and most reclusive whitetails in the woods. That seems like a lucky buck, for sure. What does a single trail cam pic tell you? Figuring out when and why they moved through a particular area should be dissected quite carefully. Although a dying practice, Thanksgiving Day is one of the few days that area hunters may participate in the act of driving deer to standers. One of these is to remember the sun. Those who use trail cameras understand just how beneficial these tools can be. We end up reverse-engineering their travel patterns, only to be stopped by a property line. Can one trail cam picture really offer you enough?
This makes the most recent available information extremely important. Remember these four tips and you'll increase your chances of capturing well-lit pics of a buck's entire body, while at the same time eliminating hundreds of frustrating false triggers. He most likely was traveling directly away from the land he was spooked from, while in the process of completely a huge circle after dark. Whitetails are reactionary by nature. So backdating the previous seasons trail cam photos could be the ticket to a strategic approach to individual bucks on certain weather patterns or more importantly specific wind directions. Where Did He Travel? That placement seems to be close to the spine but obviously missed it.
Deer Can (Seem) Calculative. Does it seem a little crazy to base hunting strategies from one single trail cam picture? This buck showed up on Will Brantley's trail camera late in the 2019 gun season. He does not live near the land we hunt, let alone on the land we hunt. It doesn't make it easier to kill. His wife shot the deer the next season. That said, they're so reactionary that they can seem calculative.
It requires casting a wide net with numerous trail cameras. It had cleanly broken off its left antler and skull plate, completely exposing the brain cavity. Place a trail cam 4 to 10 yards from the action. But studying the historical weather and wind data for the exact times of trail camera photos is a must.
24044 State Highway 96 - New Canton, Illinois 62356. This pic is from this past Aug. Record buck?????? Yes, we've seen animals caught on trail cameras carrying some pretty significant wounds, but nothing quite like this. He is an interloper, just traveling through. Since that was a story in the Blog today. Avoiding ant infestations, cleaning battery contact points, and taking other necessary steps can stop a future camera issue in its tracks.
Too close and you'll get pics of rumps, tails and antler tips because a deer passes by too fast to trigger the cam, or a buck's head is down and you don't have a field of view large enough to capture the entire deer. Big-buck photos are still filling the trail cameras. In my experience, the ideal distance is 5 to 7 yards. According to the Boone and Crockett Club, the buck's net […]. Trail Cameras Don't Degrade Fair Chase. And he has a broken ear. Some are accepting of certain levels of human intrusion. "But I thought he had just seen a turkey and […]. This particular day offers an extremely important clue, because it was the 2015 Thanksgiving Day. Trail camera photos submitted by Deer & Deer Hunting readers. Every deer is different. Often when I see a mature buck when I am hunting, I am preparing for the shot, at a time when any form of scouting intel was already used to set the stand in the first place.
It also indicates that he was most likely bedding very close to where this picture was taken, and if I think back to the travel patterns of the other mature bucks and local deer movement, that puts him squarely in one very specific bedding area. But even if you know it's in the area, it doesn't ensure a kill. Phil Lincoln shot this deer with a bow and arrow. Bedding where people don't want to go? Knowing how your target behaves can and should influence your tactical approach. Imagine Deer & Deer Hunting publisher Brad Rucks' reaction when he returned from retrieving his trail camera memory cards to find these photos.
I especially like the Hooyman Ratchet Pruner, which makes quick work of brush and small branches. Others seek out trouble. "Had a scar with missing fur but no limp, and no indication otherwise that the deer had been wounded like that. The Most Recent Information Is Necessary. Now, with the advent of trail cameras, we see nighttime bucks that are virtually non-huntable. "The deer stuck around all summer, and Michelle killed him the following September, " Brantley said. Others want no part of it at all. Settings Truly Matter.
Whether the deer survived beyond that season remains a mystery, but it's possible. What the Timing Means. The details may reveal exactly that.
Check out the video below…. How it happened isn't obvious, but somehow, this buck received a serious blow. Mature bucks have the uncanny ability of knowing particular stand sights and hunter entrances and exits to and from stands. The buck is a beast. Where legal, it isn't a question of whether hunters should or shouldn't use these scouting tools. Here's a selection of photos sent to Deer & Deer Hunting's Facebook Page. Still, Pressure Matters. Although the travel patterns of the other 2 bucks were not exactly the same, as one buck etablished this area as the NE corner of his territoy and the other buck used this as the core of his home range, where they traveled through the habitat in this location, was the same. Property lines save a lot of lives.
It's been on camera every day since. Steve spends more time in the woods in one year than most hunters do in 10 years. Throughout much of the year, it's best to point cameras northward or southward to prevent severe glaring. This would allow for 2 more stand locations that would be supported by the additional food source, new defined travel corridors for cruising bucks, and for additional late season food source hunting opportunities. "I'm not sure what this guy's issue is, " Smith said.