Few questions.... Use your best judgement on the questions.... During hunting season only, what percentage of trail camera photos do you get during daylight hours of 1.5 y/o bucks? During hunting season only, what percentage of trail camera photos do you get during daylight hours of 2.5 y/o bucks? During hunting season only, what percentage of trail camera photos do you get during daylight hours of 3.5 or older bucks? Example. If one has 100 photos of 1.5 y/o bucks. 80 of them are at night, 20 are during daylight hours. 20% of 1.5 y/o buck photos during hunting season were during daylight hours.
During hunting season only, what percentage of trail camera photos do you get during daylight hours of 1.5 y/o bucks? 10% During hunting season only, what percentage of trail camera photos do you get during daylight hours of 2.5 y/o bucks? 5% During hunting season only, what percentage of trail camera photos do you get during daylight hours of 3.5 or older bucks? 1%< But it does happen,
Nearly all of my in season daytime pics are of 1.5 or 2.5 y/o bucks. I tend to put my cameras in destination food sources, simply for inventory purposes. I won't disturb the places I think a 3.5+ y/o buck can be seen during daytime with a camera.......the only time I'm going to disturb one of those places is when I'm planning to hunt it.
Are you asking what percentage of the daylight pics are bucks or what percentage of the buck pics one gets are daylight pics?
This pretty much works for me too. The damn deer are watching too many of these VAMPIRE Movies. It seems to be getting worse in my woods. Even the little guys are becoming night movers.
Mainly this. I've only been running my cam since September, and I would say 100% of my daytime photos of bucks are 1.5-2.5yr olds.
Example. If one has100 photos of 1.5 y/o bucks. 80 of them are at night, 20 are during daylight hours. 20% of 1.5 y/o buck photos during hunting season were during daylight hours.
For 1.5 yr olds, I will say 50% of their pics are during daylight. For 2.5 yr olds 10% of their pics are during the day. I've only had 1 pic of a 3.5 or older during shooting hours, and it came in the last few minutes of it. The IR even had to be used. So I will say 1% in daylight.
This Is from last year (2010) During hunting season only, what percentage of trail camera photos do you get during daylight hours of 1.5 y/o bucks? 50% During hunting season only, what percentage of trail camera photos do you get during daylight hours of 2.5 y/o bucks?100% Only got pics of one 2.5 last year. Got tons of pics of him during the pre rut In the daylight. Never got a night time pic of him that I can remember. During hunting season only, what percentage of trail camera photos do you get during daylight hours of 3.5 or older bucks? 50% on 3.5's, right around 20% on 4.5's and under 10% on the 5.5 I was hunting. These are all mock scrape pics.
Changes things... 20% 10% 10-15% I dont get a TON of mature buck photos, so the data is a little swayed.
Could be! Or, it could be a "some are better at setting trail cams than others" thread. Or, we could just see another penguin.
I do not run trail cameras during the open hunting season. I know my daytime photos tail off a lot as Spetember nears. My cams are most always packed away by the end of the first week of September, usually sooner. I want to see what kind of success guys have running trail cameras during bow season.
I went through every single trail camera photo I had from October 1 until I stopped running cams in mid November. Here's my findings 1.5 year olds - 52% of photos in the daytime 2.5 year olds - 48% of photos in the daytime 3.5 year olds - 50% of photos in the daytime (surprised me) 4.5+ year olds - 13% of photos in the daytime Key note - I only got 3 bucks 4.5 years or older on my cameras all year. This is two separate farms that are 6 hours from each other, running 4-5 total cameras at a time. There were 8 total "encounters" with these bucks. Each encounter could possibly have generated more than one photo, but was only counted once. Only ONE of these encounters was during daylight. I had 150 total buck encounters on my trail camera last fall. My one encounter with a 4.5 year old buck during daylight worked out to be 0.66% of the overall total. Here he is, late October just past daylight following a doe past one of my stands.
Thanks for the great breakdown... I often wonder if I would cause more harm than good by leaving them up and checking them during bow season. I figure checking them once a week wouldn't really help me a whole lot because what they were doing 5 or 6 days ago doesn't help me "today"... But, I understand there is the chance that what they did "yesterday" may help me "today". I feel that looking at camera results may take away from my gut feelings on where to setup, I don't want that to happen. I am just indecisive on to pull them or leave them up this fall. I am leaning to pull them like I always do though.
