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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5274103" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>That is an interesting graph and very telling. I'd have to look back through my pics through the years to be sure but at first glance your graph pretty closely parallels what I typically see. </p><p></p><p>I have a few suspicions about the change this year on my place. One is a clear cut a few hundred yards away on public land. It just this summer reached a maturity level where bucks could navigate through it.Until now it was too thick for antlered bucks. They'd skirt it but didn't seem to like going in. This year they can and do. </p><p></p><p>My other suspicion is poacher pressure. I live 6.5hrs from the property so I'm not there enough to keep an eye on it. There's been a chronic poaching problem in the area for a long time but for the past several years it's been quiet. On my latest trip up there a week ago I found a dead doe in a plot, under one of my busiest scrapes. A review of the camera showed she was shot and died right there, but nobody on camera. I don't know if they shot from afar & turned away when they realized she was lying dead in front of a camera, or if they never had any intention of retrieving her. But there she was rotting away at a scrape that usually is pretty hot. It's hard not to think that isn't an isolated event, that somebody has begun hunting my place when I'm not around. It would sure explain the terrible hunting I experienced this year. But before I go too far blaming anybody else, I lined my property perimeter with cams. If a turkey farts I'll know it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5274103, member: 20583"] That is an interesting graph and very telling. I'd have to look back through my pics through the years to be sure but at first glance your graph pretty closely parallels what I typically see. I have a few suspicions about the change this year on my place. One is a clear cut a few hundred yards away on public land. It just this summer reached a maturity level where bucks could navigate through it.Until now it was too thick for antlered bucks. They'd skirt it but didn't seem to like going in. This year they can and do. My other suspicion is poacher pressure. I live 6.5hrs from the property so I'm not there enough to keep an eye on it. There's been a chronic poaching problem in the area for a long time but for the past several years it's been quiet. On my latest trip up there a week ago I found a dead doe in a plot, under one of my busiest scrapes. A review of the camera showed she was shot and died right there, but nobody on camera. I don't know if they shot from afar & turned away when they realized she was lying dead in front of a camera, or if they never had any intention of retrieving her. But there she was rotting away at a scrape that usually is pretty hot. It's hard not to think that isn't an isolated event, that somebody has begun hunting my place when I'm not around. It would sure explain the terrible hunting I experienced this year. But before I go too far blaming anybody else, I lined my property perimeter with cams. If a turkey farts I'll know it. [/QUOTE]
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