Posted on 12/01/2015 1:07:14 PM PST by w1n1
Technology in the deer hunting world has drastically evolved in the last decade. One of the leaders in advancement has been trail cameras, which, based on the volume now used in the deer woods, shouldn't be too surprising. Yet one of the best features on many of today's trail cameras is rarely used to its full potential is the time-lapse mode.
Time-lapse allows a user to set the camera up to take a picture (or set of pictures) on a fixed interval without being triggered by an animal. Many of today's advanced cameras allow the time period during the day to be set (like only during hunting hours), and also still operate and trigger independent of the time-lapse setting if set off by an animal.
Other options that supplements this technology is the observation. The typical daily deer movement pattern includes these key components: Food to Doe Bedding to Doe/Buck Bedding Mix to Mature Buck Bedding…and then back again. Read the rest of story here.
Not sporting. If you truly need food, makes sense.
Here, that kind of thing is called feed-and-shoot-not hunting. Anyone who considers that hunting or sport should just pay a rancher to let them go to their pasture and shoot a cow...
Or you can just sit on our deck with a beer and wait for them to walk past. :-)
BFL.
I need something, because last season, after 19 days of hunting, spending over $1000 in land fees and gasoline, I have exactly ZERO deer in my freezer. I haven’t even gone hunting this year, because I’m still sore from that.
LOL! It happens. The last deer I took cost me about $20,000. That would be the replacement cost of my (sob!) vintage WRX...
Could the lease be hunted out from too many years of too many hunters, etc? That can happen with bad game/land management-I’d be looking for another place to hunt at that price with no venison in the freezer...
BFL
If I lived in Idaho I’d be going for elk.
My dad went on a week long hunt a couple of weeks ago with some friends. No deer.
On Thanksgiving his friend, who owned the land sent him a picture of the two deer he had taken.
That's the way it goes.
And that's why they call it "fishing" and not "catching"........LOL!
LOL! As it happens I just missed two elk in that same car in a location about four miles from where I ended up hitting the deer. Stupid buggers standing in the middle of the road staring at oncoming traffic. A year before that it was a moose standing in a divided highway. If I'd hit any of those at speed I wouldn't be here posting.
We had a neighbor who went deer hunting and got skunked, only to come home and find a buck hanging in his garage. His wife had shot it as it crossed the backyard of their house!
I did. I quit that club.
“More whitetail privilege in the hunting press.”
#blacktaillivesmatter
Oh, that is SO GOOD! LOL!
From my 50+ years of deer hunting experience, deer habits and travel are set by the senior doe. If she is killed, and there is not a herd leader doe in waiting, the deer may move. Bucks go where the does go.
Some leasers will shoot the Lead doe and not understand their mistake. We may all have a BIL that will wound any doe that walks in front of him and is too lazy to track her down, only to have the buzzards point her out days later.
Unless your lease is truly ‘anti-deer’ habitat, feeding them the right stuff year round can get them back.
Wow.....been some time since I was in your state but the limits on deer was in the double digits if my memory is correct. Things changed that bad for hunters there ?
I barter here with local farmers and ranchers by driving grain trucks or cutting hay, breaking ice on the stock tanks etc for permission to hunt year round. Fowl, Feral Hogs, Deer, Dove, Duck and Pheasant and some times even get to haul home a side of beef, a pig, and a couple dozen fresh eggs.
All the while scouting the property for game. I’m NOT a trophy hunter thus I serve the landowner by telling them where the trophy buck is at while I seek only to fill my freezers by culling the herd as a wannabe conservationist of wild game per se...
Also remember, gun, archery and blackpowder primitive hunting seasons gives ya multiple chances to fill that freezer.
Look around your area. I’ll bet you can find same opportunity in your state. Best of luck.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.