Really? How about easy every once in a while? September season opens Saturday and one big buck has left me grasping for straws lol. Quite interesting this season I believe the rain has affected the way deer are bedding. Much of the bedding I found this spring was 90% to do around pockets of swampy water. Now all of that water is gone. Which really takes away some of the benefit to those beds. Still going to give it a go on Saturday as I have bucks coming from that direction at 8:30, bout an hour after sunset. 2 bucks running together. He was not there for the first 4 weeks. On all cams the next 2 weeks. Then gone. Now he is back again on all 3 cams, multiple times. Only 1 daylight of him in 6 weeks.
He also could be coming from a totally different bedding area .75 miles in another direction.
Such a unique situation with the urban zone. Meaning, I am really going to pressure these bucks hard. If I can bump them from their beds, I will. If I screw up the area, will come back at it again in late October. What I learn this year about them in September will really help me for next September. So far, bucks keep showing so I will keep pushing. The less I know, the more I go. I steer clear of knowing bedding areas but the way I see it is IF I am not getting bucks on camera during daylight, I am not close enough to where they bed. Plain and simple, there is more work to be done. I figure it takes me 3-5yrs of scouting / hunting to really learn how the deer move in an area. If there is less cover, time is shorter. My first year on this property.
Regular season opens Sept 29 which gets me into my best spots. 5 miles from urban I have mature bucks showing in daylight...go figure.
I am sure all the rest of you guys have "easy" ones to start the season with
Why can't big bucks make it easy?
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Re: Why can't big bucks make it easy?
I like your saying the less I know the more I go. It's never easy when you don't have history with an area especially early season imo.Good luck I know you have put in the work!
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Re: Why can't big bucks make it easy?
That can be one of the drawbacks of MORE intel on a buck...you start to realize even then just how little you know. I have said before if I know what a buck is doing 5-10% of the time - that's a major pattern
What you describe is pretty common to what I see of fall patterns of individual mature bucks....they hang out in an area for days, maybe up to a week or two, then they disappear for a while, probably moving to another part of their range for whatever reason. Sometimes the reasons can be deciphered - a new food source, change in hunting pressure, that sort of thing...but often there is no apparent reason to me (although I am sure they have one).
Good luck, sounds like you are doing things the right way, stacking the odds to the best of your ability - now its up to the gods to decide.
What you describe is pretty common to what I see of fall patterns of individual mature bucks....they hang out in an area for days, maybe up to a week or two, then they disappear for a while, probably moving to another part of their range for whatever reason. Sometimes the reasons can be deciphered - a new food source, change in hunting pressure, that sort of thing...but often there is no apparent reason to me (although I am sure they have one).
Good luck, sounds like you are doing things the right way, stacking the odds to the best of your ability - now its up to the gods to decide.
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Re: Why can't big bucks make it easy?
JoeRE wrote:That can be one of the drawbacks of MORE intel on a buck...you start to realize even then just how little you know. I have said before if I know what a buck is doing 5-10% of the time - that's a major pattern
What you describe is pretty common to what I see of fall patterns of individual mature bucks....they hang out in an area for days, maybe up to a week or two, then they disappear for a while, probably moving to another part of their range for whatever reason. Sometimes the reasons can be deciphered - a new food source, change in hunting pressure, that sort of thing...but often there is no apparent reason to me (although I am sure they have one).
Good luck, sounds like you are doing things the right way, stacking the odds to the best of your ability - now its up to the gods to decide.
The unfortunate part of knowing the drill? Night time pics of big bucks really just don't excitement me as much anymore. When I was younger, man I am in the game, no idea that I was no where close. But with experience, the reality of what we are trying to do dulls the excitement a bit. The odds game I know all too well.
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