Inventory, Food, Cameras

[BigHills BuckHunter]

Just wondering how many of you guys are setting up cameras to see what has lived through the season so far? Where do you like to set up the cameras? Beds? Food? Right now I have two out/near a picked cornfield with a lot of stubble left and alfafla field next to it. I have noticed from shining past 2 nights if you have standing corn its golden right now, picked corn is pretty good and even picked soybeans are getting attention.

[BigHunt]

My cameras are still up next weekend going up to check them.

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[James]

Just setup cameras while scouting today. I set them up close to bedding since I am tagged out for the season. I'll check them in a few weeks.

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[Casper]

Mine have been soaking for three to six weeks (9 cams out). I'll check them next weekend

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[BigHunt]

I'm very interested to see what survived on the farm after the gun seasons. I'm hoping to see 2 or 3 different bucks ive been thinking of . I hope with time as thing cool off, they start to show up in winter

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[headgear]

Cams are running, had some after rifle season pics of a couple of nice buck on a mock scrape. Also had the muzzy in hand today and did some hunting/scouting of some bedding areas, some I knew well and others were new to me but look promising.

[utica19]

I have one up over a wooded trail leading into a winter wheat field and one over our small brassica plantings. My Cudde-crap is on the fritz so its siting in my garage, maybe taking a picture of my Ford Explorer. Or not.

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[hoyt]

I hunt public land..Shawnee National Forest..and am waiting for this last muzzle loading season this coming wk end to get over and then put a couple out.

I don't ever see anybody anyway, but I know I got things to myself when gun season is out. Still have 48 more days of bow season and I had close calls with some real good bucks last month I want to see if any are still around.

[bowhunter15]

I have been setting a couple up. Where legal, I have been spreading out a bit of corn and vanilla scent in front of the cams. Not a ton, but enough that they'll go out of their way to sit and grab a snack. Typically set up away from bedding in areas I'd only expect nocturnal movement anyways. Works for inventory, and also studying which deer show up with which wind direction coming from which side of the camera, etc. to try to figure out where the deer are bedding so that I could backtrack and hunt close to their beds.

[westmibow]

I started doing this last year. I had a lot of success putting cameras up near a large stand of overgrown spruce and fir trees. They really like to bed in them in the winter months. So I put some up on the edges and used BB2 to help bring them in. It worked really good.

I would say though if you have a good food source I would set up a camera on the entry and exit routes and you should get some really good pictures and ideas of who made it.

I run my cameras all year long it gives you so much information not only inventory-wise but on movement and it helps to pin point where certain bucks core areas and other info to. I highly recomend it.

[E72]

Defintley will have multiple cams out this winter. We can bait in Ohio so late season is the time I put corn out for inventory. To me, hunting on top of bait here is a waste but I do know guys that have had some success on good bucks hunting trails from bed to bait. Has to get nasty cold.

[goldtip5575]

Unless we get alot of snow or extended days of cold temps we dont get alot of pics in winter due to lack of good winter bedding areas on the property.Last year there was so much corn left in the plots they looked like bait stations in the spring.Two years ago the corn plots were picked clean.

[BigHills BuckHunter]

What do you guys think of putting cams into buck bedding areas/beds this time of year?

[Bucky]

What do you guys think of putting cams into buck bedding areas/beds this time of year?

If you are tagged out... I do for the following year. I try to pattern certain deer movements all year...