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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5790098" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>I do. And I check them multiple times during season. They do move better and less nervously in thick cover but I've not seen where they necessarily move more during midday. In their very tight core bedding areas maybe they do but it's a crap shoot getting it on cam because they bed in different places every day, multiple times per day. </p><p></p><p>In my experience they don't bed down at daylight and stay until dark. They bed down for a few minutes or even a few hours but they're right back on their feet to stretch & bite a little browse & then plop right back down 15yds away in another spot. Up down up down all day long. During rut all bets are off because there are no rules or commonalities. A buck liable to do any one thing as likely as he is to do another. </p><p></p><p>But for sure I set up cams in the deepest recesses of cover and along travel routes in & out & throughout. I go in after season ends and prune trails and create or prune small openings, maintain mock scrapes, etc. I create my own perimeter trails around the thickets and make spur trails perpendicular & leading to deer trails. The spur will stop short of connecting to the deer trail and that's where I set the cams. They can watch the deer trail but I don't have to get anywhere near the trail to check my cams. That said, deer will use my perimeter trails as their own but my presence doesn't seem to affect them like it does when I intrude and walk on one of their interior trails. And since the spur trails don't connect, I rarely see deer on them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5790098, member: 20583"] I do. And I check them multiple times during season. They do move better and less nervously in thick cover but I've not seen where they necessarily move more during midday. In their very tight core bedding areas maybe they do but it's a crap shoot getting it on cam because they bed in different places every day, multiple times per day. In my experience they don't bed down at daylight and stay until dark. They bed down for a few minutes or even a few hours but they're right back on their feet to stretch & bite a little browse & then plop right back down 15yds away in another spot. Up down up down all day long. During rut all bets are off because there are no rules or commonalities. A buck liable to do any one thing as likely as he is to do another. But for sure I set up cams in the deepest recesses of cover and along travel routes in & out & throughout. I go in after season ends and prune trails and create or prune small openings, maintain mock scrapes, etc. I create my own perimeter trails around the thickets and make spur trails perpendicular & leading to deer trails. The spur will stop short of connecting to the deer trail and that's where I set the cams. They can watch the deer trail but I don't have to get anywhere near the trail to check my cams. That said, deer will use my perimeter trails as their own but my presence doesn't seem to affect them like it does when I intrude and walk on one of their interior trails. And since the spur trails don't connect, I rarely see deer on them. [/QUOTE]
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