Whitetailaddict wrote:mainebowhunter wrote:It has been a year since I posted on this thread. On one piece of ground it has been my second full season hunting it. Bucks are acting completely different than last year. Bucks are showing in day where they never showed. Bucks that aGe classed up a year.
One buck in particular is showing less this year and I put way less pressure on the place in July and August. Never got pics of him where I did in certain spots last year.
Saturday season opens. I will be hunting spots I have never hunted. One buck in particular is a daylight mover. Random times...not a ton that repeats. But daylight movement is all I need to see to hunt him.
It will be interesting to recap the season. Cell cams to date have not really showed much different data than checking them every 2 to 3 weeks. But bucks are just starting to shed velvet. Curious to see if I get the same shifts with 0 impact.
This is really interesting to me. Both that the patterns are different and that cell cams vs regular cams have not seemed to alter patterns. We are always told checking the cameras is too much pressure and may cause deer to relocate but your findings may suggest otherwise although it is a small sampling. Maybe a good study for some biologists to perform.
Yeah. Thats really some of my experiments all season. Very low impact. I will say this. The #1 buck I am hunting showed up on one of my trail cams today hard boned at 10:30am. Season opens tomorrow. Bucks have been on their feet in this area just this week -- some mid morning, some noon. Some at last light. NONE early in the morning. I am not much of a moon person but seeing a lot of deer movement mid morning and noon this week. This might mean an 8am til dark sit tomorrow.
The last time this buck showed up was the day before I checked the cams. He has not been back since. The last picture of him he appeared to have scent trailed me right to my camera.
The one thing I am really looking for is movement hard boned. Velvet bucks definitely seem to tolerate more human intrusion than when they are hardboned. The velvet shift is real. But sometimes I wonder if the velvet shift is more of a human intrusion shift.