Congrats on the doe man! My friend went to his farm in OH where I hunt yesterday. Besides finding some dirtbag stole his Polaris Ranger, he sent me a bunch of pics. These are the same buck. I doubt it will score well with that weak right side but I'll probably shoot it given the chance. I cropped them because he had some personal location data on them.
Heading out to my spot in Forbes State Forest tomorrow morning. Hopefully I can update with a deer down .
Nice buck ... good luck tomorrow if i get off work in time im going to head out in the evening tomorrow
I saw a bunch of turkeys and a doe with fawn but no shots. I am heading to OH this weekend hopefully I have better luck.
Saw a doe and a fawn and about twenty turkeys this morning. I decided not to make Bambi an orphan and let the mamma walk. Then she winded me and made me wish I shot her. Oh well, might go back out in the morning, depends on how my body responds to flag football tonight.
Have not been able to hunt yet. Pics are starting to come..better pics anyway. The three main targets, I've yet to get in front of a camera. Had a new buck show yesterday, I hate that he's broke up a bit.. I can't let him pass. His name is too obvious ..) B45 buck Some others
Very nice! I managed to get a head cold so I skipped the morning at least so I didn't ruin the other guys' hunts coughing and sneezing my head off. Better now than November I guess.
Hey fellas. I haven't been on here very much lately. I've been busy with everything. I did get out a few times but nothing to report really. I hunted once in MO to try and kill a doe, but of course only saw a few young bucks. I was in OH last week for business and some hunting. I run a Browning Trail Camera as a ground camera on all my hunts. It's easy to get footage in OH where you can bait. That was weird sitting over a corn pile. It's illegal in MO and IL where I primarily hunt. Anyways, I had a nice young buck come into the pile. The sun was shining right into the camera and caused some of the red glare spots but it was still pretty good footage. [video=vimeo;141731294]https://vimeo.com/141731294[/video]
Hey boys. Need to get your thoughts on something. Since I shot the doe I've been staying out of the woods for a bit. Only cause I've been swamped with work. Week after next I take off for a week of moose hunting so I'm getting everything together in meantime. I went in today to check all cams and reload the corn piles. And have one questions regarding a new spot. I came into this spot one month prior to season opening. Sept 1. This spot is basically a land bridge between a huge lake and a marsh. Saw lots of deer tracks etc. I set up my stand camer and pile all on sept 1. I checked cam sept 24 and had pictures night/day of lots d does, couple nice bucks etc. They seem to be mostly passing through in the pictures. They were showing up every couple days on camera. As of the 20th nothing came from that day till the day I reloaded corn and changed camera card. I stayed out until October 1 opener when I hunted this stand in morning. That day I checked cam and notice nothing came since the 20th. I stayed away until today the 12th and finally had a pic last night of a forker. So I have not been in there often enough to spook anything. They seem to have spooked before I got there anyways. Do you guys think they are really not using this area at all? Or do you think maybe they move from this area at this time of year? Good sources move them elsewhere? Any thoughts?
Food sources change this time of year. It is possible that they moved to a different food source so they aren't passing through where you have the camera.
Here is something that my buddy and I have been doing a lot of thinking about. Do you know anyone who has shot a big buck over a corn pile? I never have, my best friend never has, nor do we know anyone else who has. A food plot is different than a corn pile and I believe the deer are more at ease in a food plot. The other thing about a corn pile from my observation is that a deer might go 75-100 yards down wind to check it out before approaching. Maybe make sure that you aren't hunting right over the corn pile but are set up 75-100 plus yards away from it so that when the deer check downwind they won't bust you.
The buck I posted in post #241 is at corn (my friend puts it out by his cameras and is legal on private land in OH). Though not a monster buck, and probably only 3.5, for our area that is a decent buck and the biggest we have had on the farm in 3 years. Several of his neighbors have some impressive bucks they shot over corn. It's not legal here in PA and where I do the majority of my hunting due to how far his farm is.
Saw some deer on last nights sit, 3 spikes a 5 point and a doe. A friend let me hunt with him over his clover plot. I knew the chances of shooting anything were slim, but I enjoyed just seeing deer. That is a couple seasons worth of buck sightings in one night here in Maine. We had deer in the plot almost the entire sit.
Rainy this morning, so I bailed and slept in. Hope to either get back out this afternoon or tomorrow morning. I really like to get a doe down early and usually have one by now. I am off my game lol.
