think on Saturday AM, I am going to sneak up to MI deer camp to do a final inventory/camp prep, check cams, and get in a PM/AM/PM sit, heading home late Sunday. Weather is looking good for it-
Glad to hear this. My kids just called and they are safe and sound also. They were just east of Tampa/Sarasota.
Sunday I posted that there was a cell cam next to my tree stand that someone out there. I had everything intention of moving that stand today or tomorrow but I think I’m going to leave it. I ended up seeing 4 deer out of it today. 2 ran past the camera. I was thinking why should I move, I have had that stand there for 4 years I’d guess. So I put up a new pull rope today and made sure I walked in front of the camera so whomever it belongs to knows I’m around.
I moved my stand to a good looking spot. I haven’t found any sign there but then again I haven’t stomped it up looking. The road looks like a deer highway though. It’s a pine tree with good back cover just off the road with a small white oak growing right next to it. I climbed up about 20 feet, cut the top of the small tree and pivoted around so that now I will be the top of the tree. That works really well at Wattensaw. I’ll give it a try this afternoon and tomorrow morning.
Not a cloud in the sky. Thinking of going in after that buck I found last week. Tall rubs and big tracks. There isn't much tree cover, and I will roast in the sun for hrs. Ha. Debating on where the heck to go.
I'm really interested in that road scrape line and how it progresses over the next two weeks. Any thoughts on putting a cam up like 10 feet and monitoring it?
So last year I found a series of scrapes fairly early in the season. I hung a couple of cameras and was getting some great looking bucks. Late in the season I found their bedding area that was very close by. I had a stand there but what I figured out was that I was in the right area but not the right spot. Fast forward to this year and I think I've got it completely figured out. I hang the cameras in the same places but I'm not getting the buck pics like I did last year. I'm seeing plenty of does but not the bucks. I'm sitting in what I thought would be the perfect stand, I thought, but not getting the same results. I'm thinking what has changed and since I live in farm country the only thing that comes to mind is the crops. So I remembered a place that is a very remote spot and borders standing corn. I take a camera down there and boom, I start getting decent buck pics just a few hours after I hung the camera. Now I've got to slip in there and get a stand up, which I plan on doing this weekend. The lesson it taught me was don't get complacent. If you're not seeing what you thought you would see, think about why. Many times I think the answer will be fairly simple. One question I still have is why the bucks abandoned that bedding area I had found at the end of last year. I hope I can figure that one out. Sent from my SM-N975U1 using Tapatalk
Could be the sun and seasonal. Like South slopes suck in the summer and early season, but are money late season. At least that's what I deal with.
I think the change in food sources is your answer; maximal access to food with minimal travel and disturbance.
