*Official 2020 Scouting Thread

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  1. Ridgerunner3

    Ridgerunner3 Grizzled Veteran

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    Tonight I walked the newly disced and dragged plots. With the heavy rains last night and this morning I knew more rocks would pop. Mind you talking big ones because our land is pretty much ALL rocks with a little soil holding them together. Anyways I about flipped when I saw the track I saw. Huge spayed and rounded tips,inch wide back "pads". Now I was taking these and the ones next to them just as big with a grain of salt due to soft soils. Then I walked the mid woods trail on the other side of new blind. A well trampled undisturbed foot trail. The tracks were just as visible there as well. It also shows these deer have no concern over the new blind or my having been there.
     
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  3. oldnotdead

    oldnotdead Legendary Woodsman

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    Dang I'm surprised you could read that..lol

    First sign devise is too old...constant fixing words, then whole different words that were not typed and in death throws it will just make it's own complete sentence.
     
  4. virginiashadow

    virginiashadow Legendary Woodsman

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    I have some learning disabilities I believe. I can read hieroglyphics sometimes....when drinking. Which I am currently doing. :)
     
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    Well boys, my dad went and pulled a camera card from a farm we just got permission on this year... I think I found a target buck what do you guys think?? IMG_2148.jpeg IMG_2155.jpeg . Not sure he might need a few more years hahaha


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  6. virginiashadow

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    Thats what Im talking about! So happy for you.
     
  7. Holt

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    What a freak! I have a feeling your going to be hunting alot more then you think this year!

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  8. alenhard15

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    I am hoping so!!! Really looking forward to chasing this buck, unfortunately he’s at the farm furthest away!! Of course!


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    Hey its good to have options. Jersey?

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    Nope this ones actually PA! I’m sticking to PA and MD this year trying to stay closer to home


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  11. slickbilly-d

    slickbilly-d Die Hard Bowhunter

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    Pulled one of three cards. Got a couple cute pictures of a fawn and a little buck. There were also a bunch of false triggers. I think I’m going to let the others soak for a while. Two are in a field edge and corn is in so I’d say they’re on better summer food sources, but when fall arrives, a decent buck should show up
     
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    20200718_165506.jpg When its 100 degrees for weeks and you need to pull your cams. Preparing for night extraction tonight. Min 4 miles in the dark. Good workout.
     
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    Very disappointing cam pulls. Two months and less than 10 pics on each. I have a feeling the cams werent triggering correctly and the other problem on the cams.....

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    Man that’s the worst. I haven’t had good luck with my stealth cams in the past, but they were triggering on everything. Hope ya get em straight! I been targeting small tracts in city limits and found a giant one. If he stays in the area he’s very killable, I put 4 more cams in the section he was in, trying to find my best entrance to hunt the prop and get a pattern. Still way early but he’s been all daylight, Hope to kill him the first couple days of the season fingers crossed. Good luck y’all, hope the 2020 season is better than the beginning of the year with all this craziness! Heading to Ohio mid week to hang some stand and set/check cams.
     
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    What is weird is they have always worked great. I even programmed in the correct dates and times when I started the cams. First pic on each cam was the correct dates and times, then starting with the second pics they started showing dates starting in 2017 for no reason. I am not sure what is going on with them.
     
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    I’d try reaching out to Stealth cam, they let me return them to a local distributor for full refund after 1 year of use. That’s one of the most frustrating things when a cam malfunctions or ya have an operator error, I’m like ocd when I hang cams anymore and double check the SD card isn’t Locked and in there and everything is set. Last year I had 3 cams in Ohio that were out for a couple months and the SD’s were locked and didn’t record any videos. I was butthurt bad haha
     
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    Just got back from a new battery run and found 2 cards I thought I'd pulled. Actually not sure cams were on due to a wild storm that blew in across the valley I was rushing to say the least. Under severe lightening strike warning, high winds and flooding yee hawww....
     
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    Holy cow! 981 pics before it died. Just a few young buck,need to doe hunt. Crazy #'s of raccoon, fox, rabbits and opossum. One big yote. A big beard dragging Tom on the 28th of May.
    No hens no pults..gee I wonder why..lol
    The other cam died at just 30 in same area,deer and fox.
     
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    I can already tell I will like this guys channel. Lets give him some love and subscribe to his youtube channel.

     
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    Any way you'd like to share your letter body? Is it something you thought up or is it just a generic permission request? Very Interested in this
     

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