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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5713677" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>Looks like an outstanding spot. South facing slope with thicket and a feed tree just a few yards away so the buck can bed in the thicket and feel safe hitting the tree in daylight. During winter that thicket will get full sun and should be good bedding. </p><p></p><p>And you are correct about cameras. I learned more about deer behavior in the first year I ran a camera than I did in the lifetime of hunting before it. Now I run many of them. The devil is in the details. I find myself going back to reference years old photos and cross referencing them with historical weather data, moon position, etc. that coincides with the date and time a photo was taken. Weather Underground is perfect for that. It's amazing the patterns you can pick out that you'd never have noticed while hunting. </p><p></p><p>For instance I wanted to find out why bucks hit scrapes during daylight. I wanted to know if it was random or something I could predict. What I found over years of scrape pics was that a big majority of daylight pics were during a wind shift. As a front causes a major wind direction change such as from south to north, there will be a short lull where the wind dies to zero or near zero before picking up speed again in the opposite direction. Bucks that hit scrapes during daylight did so during that lull. I'd have never known that without trail cams. And that's only one example.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5713677, member: 20583"] Looks like an outstanding spot. South facing slope with thicket and a feed tree just a few yards away so the buck can bed in the thicket and feel safe hitting the tree in daylight. During winter that thicket will get full sun and should be good bedding. And you are correct about cameras. I learned more about deer behavior in the first year I ran a camera than I did in the lifetime of hunting before it. Now I run many of them. The devil is in the details. I find myself going back to reference years old photos and cross referencing them with historical weather data, moon position, etc. that coincides with the date and time a photo was taken. Weather Underground is perfect for that. It's amazing the patterns you can pick out that you'd never have noticed while hunting. For instance I wanted to find out why bucks hit scrapes during daylight. I wanted to know if it was random or something I could predict. What I found over years of scrape pics was that a big majority of daylight pics were during a wind shift. As a front causes a major wind direction change such as from south to north, there will be a short lull where the wind dies to zero or near zero before picking up speed again in the opposite direction. Bucks that hit scrapes during daylight did so during that lull. I'd have never known that without trail cams. And that's only one example. [/QUOTE]
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