2 separate questions- preorbital and wind direction

[keepthefevercalls]

Hey guys I have 2 specific questions.

When making a mock scrape and using preorbital on the licking branch, how often do you reapply? 2 weeks?

Also, what do you use to go back and see what the wind direction was on a certain day to be able to pattern bucks on camera?
Thanks!
Mike

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[wickedbruiser]

Reapply every time you go to check camera. With that said, you obviously don't want to over do it.

I use weatherunderground for weather history.

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[Stanley]

I like to check cameras on a real dry windy day.

[DaveT1963]

Question 1: I refresh mine about every 2-3 weeks until bucks take them over - then I leave them alone (as far as lure) until late Oct at which time I will swab them with some of last years gland I extracted.... my reason is I want to create the illusion of a new kid on the block right at the time where the older boys are getting a little antsi. Most of the time I actually try to find natural licking branches that get used year round. If I find an old scrape in Feb with fresh tracks and new chewed up limps - I know this is more then likely a year round licking branch that just happens to have a buck scrape. To me the licking branch is first priority for deer, the actual scrape is secondary. When I find these I don't use any lure until I hunt it and then I will swipe on some natural gland as stated above.

Question 2: Every pic I get of a target buck I annotate buck name (I give them one so I can start tracking them)date, location, and time of pic. I enter this into a excel sheet and then add additional info such as temp, sunrise/sunset, moon phase, etc... that I get form the internet. Doing it in exel you can then sort as you want or write a formula do give you the info you want. You can keep adding and modifying the info you keep on this database

[keepthefevercalls]

Awesome, thanks guys!

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[Stanley]

A friend of mine puts all his camera set ups with a licking branch this time of year. He often creates a branch if none are around where he wants to set up a camera. I just talked to him this morning, said he is hanging a 1 foot long piece of manila hemp rope over a few camera set ups. Old Indian trick I guess?

[DaveT1963]

A friend of mine puts all his camera set ups with a licking branch this time of year. He often creates a branch if none are around where he wants to set up a camera. I just talked to him this morning, said he is hanging a 1 foot long piece of manila hemp rope over a few camera set ups. Old Indian trick I guess?

Actually, Gene Wensel wrote an article a few year back on this process and it took off from there. He did a follow up article as well. Both of these are locate don the Brothers of the Bow website.

[Stanley]

A friend of mine puts all his camera set ups with a licking branch this time of year. He often creates a branch if none are around where he wants to set up a camera. I just talked to him this morning, said he is hanging a 1 foot long piece of manila hemp rope over a few camera set ups. Old Indian trick I guess?

Actually, Gene Wensel wrote an article a few year back on this process and it took off from there. He did a follow up article as well. Both of these are locate don the Brothers of the Bow website.

I don't get out much.