BSK
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...is seeing the big buck working the scrape right in front of your stand, in daylight, the day BEFORE you hunted it. Happens every time.
The worst part about trail-cameras
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Or, 4000 pictures of your horses arse. Literally, 4000 pics of him scratching on my trail cam 
themanpcl
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or one walking into the tree your cam is on, when you aren't there...lol...
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yep, I've had it happen 4 times season! This 8pt was 60 yards from my stand while I was hunting 70 miles away on NF land.
BSK
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I've been trying to get my daughter on "Satan," our giant spike buck. We hunt one food plot where he keeps a scrape on the edge of the plot open, and cameras have him working a different plot at that time. We switch to the other plot and he's back at the plot we hunted the day before. He has us pegged.
And by the way, Satan is looking rough. His right eye is now swelled shut. A little too much fighting I guess.
And by the way, Satan is looking rough. His right eye is now swelled shut. A little too much fighting I guess.
how old do you think Satan is?
DIRTTRAX
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Do like a guy around my area just did. He got up to go to work and received cell cam Pic of huge 10pt so he called in and went and killed him lol. Of course there's not much hunting involved that way
Got a similar story:
Sat most of the day last Wednesday. Saw nothing. Had a new cam with me so popped it on a scrape so I could see when they were working it. I get home and look at my phone. I have one image where my Ranger rolls by with me leaving, 13 mins later the buck shows up…
Sat most of the day last Wednesday. Saw nothing. Had a new cam with me so popped it on a scrape so I could see when they were working it. I get home and look at my phone. I have one image where my Ranger rolls by with me leaving, 13 mins later the buck shows up…
He looks like a d!ck
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Few years back we had a beautiful, tall 8 point buck in the area. I hunted one morning on a ridge facing down into the bottoms. Hunted for a bit, did a loud grunting sequence and waited for a couple minutes but got a work call and had to leave.
Next week when I pulled the cards, he had shown up 11 minutes after I left (you can see me walking past and then him walking up), staring at the spot where I had been grunting from.
We saw the buck one more time in December at midnight, and then never again.
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Lets see him!!!!
BSK
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Oh, that truly hurts!
Eh, at least now I know I guess
Great buck
I love having cameras out but this is one thing that can be disheartening or when you have been getting pictures of deer at a place all week just to go on Saturday and not see a one. Makes you wonder if the deer scented you while going in or if you did something to give them a heads up your in the area.
TheLBLman
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No wondering to it.
Older deer are much more sensitive to human intrusion than most hunters seem to think.
While we seem to focus much on their sense of smell, I believe many "spots" may be messed up more by the sounds we make, coming & going, as well as deer simply seeing us come & go. In turn, they simply "move over" a bit with their activities near your "spot", often by only 100 yds or so, but just far enough they seem to disappear from your spot.
That is 110% fact. I've learned to change up my access to & from stands because once they become aware of my movement pattern, they'll absolutely begin bedding up to see me coming from a mile away. Having random access trails and being quiet & stealthy as possible cannot be overstated.
Thats one advantage of a cell cam. The status of each cam is available to you 24/7 on your phone
JCDEERMAN
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Totally agree. Access getting in undetected is a ballgame in itself. When speaking of sounds, in recent years, I have made it a point to rid everything I possibly can that make noise. Velcro is no longer part of me or my pack. The little jingling nuts and bolts of ladders are tightened, the squeaking of stands sprayed in advance, the pins on ladders are duct-taped….any sound I can eliminate has been addressed to the best of my abilities. Some of my best spots are sneaking into their bedrooms way before light and I can't afford any metallic sounds or anything unnatural taking place. Of course, this much detail is not for most areas, but some definitely need this attention.
