My boss is letting me take the morning off tomorrow to hunt for a few hours. It should be a good morning since it is supposed to be cold and calm, plus we have a pretty steady drizzle all day today. My buddy said i should check my cameras first to see if i am getting any good activity on them this past week and since it's raining i wouldn't spook anything if i went and checked tonight after work. Is this a good or bad idea? The last thing i want is to push deer out of the area for the next few days by going in tonight. I work 7 days a week so my time in the stand is very limited to weekend mornings before work (usually only Sunday morning), so if checking my cameras tonight is going to ruin my next 3 mornings I am just going to leave them and check them after I get out of the stand. -Andrew
When I was in college I would check my camera late Friday night when I got home every couple weeks. I had a buck show up at 8:00-8:05 for three prior mornings. I hunted Saturday and he did the same thing. It wasn't a shooter but checking my camera had no effect on him showing up. Every circumstance is different though.
Agree. I was in the same situation on Wednesday afternoon. I knew I was gonna hunt on Thursday but decided to wait to check cams. We had drizzle also. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I'd probably wait too, but I can also say that I scouted on public land for a couple hours on a Saturday, moved in and killed a buck on Sunday. So, who knows.
I checked this morning after my sit and I had almost no activity. Not to mention no deer were moving by me this morning, but others in the same stretch of woods are seeing activity pick up, so hopefully I have some action sunday morning when I get back in. This is my second year hunting and my first using trail cameras and I thought my friends were joking when they said I would get great activity on camera until the season opened and then it would become like a ghost town. They definitly were not kidding. -Andrew
