Doco Overboard
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A buck will breed all year as long as theirs a hot doe around.
A buck will breed all year as long as theirs a hot doe around.
Maybe too high of a doe to buck ratio in that area and they aren't all getting breed. If so, you're going to have some really late fawns and does that can't be killed in September. We have a lot of doe around but its over in January.
I used to leave my cams out all winter in bedding areas. I've filmed fights like those throughout the winter.
Usually, the more fighting in an area, the more balanced the buck-to-doe ratio is. Though one or two fights, here and there, aren't indicative of this, seeing many bucks with broken antlers and a ready willingness to come to rattling can be.
See I guess the old adage is true, to kill bucks you have hunt where they're at not where they've been.
THE CAMERA DOES NOT TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH!!!!! Only an amateur deer hunter will base his time spent in the woods on trail camera activity. I've witnessed some of the most mature bucks in the woods from 1100-1300 snooping around and the trail camera would of NEVER captured a picture!!! Stop cheating yourself with the privilege of hunting your grandfathers 500 acre farm that only gets hunted during rifle season and is restricted to only your access and start killing more reputable deer. And yeah start thinning the doe herd out the first week of November I guarantee your chances of seeing a buck trailing a doe that time of year is at an all time low!
??? What kind of game camera are you accustomed to that doesn’t take photos between 11am and 1pm? I’d maybe buy a new one?THE CAMERA DOES NOT TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH!!!!! Only an amateur deer hunter will base his time spent in the woods on trail camera activity. I've witnessed some of the most mature bucks in the woods from 1100-1300 snooping around and the trail camera would of NEVER captured a picture!!! Stop cheating yourself with the privilege of hunting your grandfathers 500 acre farm that only gets hunted during rifle season and is restricted to only your access and start killing more reputable deer. And yeah start thinning the doe herd out the first week of November I guarantee your chances of seeing a buck trailing a doe that time of year is at an all time low!
??? What kind of game camera are you accustomed to that doesn’t take photos between 11am and 1pm? I’d maybe buy a new one?
Or you pick up one of those wandering bucks on a trail camera and hunt that spot for two months and never see him again. Trail cameras are nice but only give you about 15 - 20%, at most, of the picture of what is going on at that spot. I've watched deer activity right off to the side of the camera field of view edge and it never triggered the PIR fields to take the pictures. Nothing else even comes close for being on site or a butt in a stand.
You have to have sign to aim a trail camera at and does mostly use the same trails that make that sign. Bucks many times just walk in the same area, but not the same trails. A buck could be within 20 yards off a camera and an easy kill shot with a bow, but just not right where the camera is aimed. You would never know it without being there and the camera would not tell you that he was there.
Mostly they prefer to cut across trails, as many as they can, until they find a trail with the right smell. (dont forget to add using thick cover in between the trails that are downwind or quartering into it) More people ruin good deer hunting spots changing batteries and looking at cards for deer that are there only during the night.