What do you guys do to get an idea of what deer/bucks made it through bow/gun/muzzle seasons? I assume corn piles but there could be a science/trick!?
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Winter Inventory
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Re: Winter Inventory
I used a corn pile and several cameras. Worked good as long as you keep it going for a while. It took a bit for some of the bucks to make it back around.
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IMHO you are better off being patient and waiting for spring unless your area is the over-winter area with a good food source. Save the corn cash and buy another camera for spring.
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i have a couple cams out for fun right now. can't bait so I just went out and walked, put it up on the highest traffic trails/feeding areas I could find based on tracks in snow. Probably will have tons of doe and fawn pics but I guess I will find out when I check the cams. Nothing too strategic about it but hopefully will keep me in the woods.
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I like to hit a few areas after rifle season to see what made it through, mostly just looking for good sized tracks. This works ok but I have lost countless bucks over the winters, there one year and gone the next. Usually the weather or the wolves finish them off.
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headgear wrote:I like to hit a few areas after rifle season to see what made it through, mostly just looking for good sized tracks. This works ok but I have lost countless bucks over the winters, there one year and gone the next. Usually the weather or the wolves finish them off.
Yes I agree. I lost a quite a few bucks that were alive after 2012 rifle season. 2013 was tough and not looking any better for 2014. I only have 4 ok to good bucks located for next year that I would consider shooting. Who knows how many of these will live.
Last year was well into the double digits on good buck prospects for fall 2013. Late spring and probably some wolf kills put a big dent into that number.
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