Almost that TIME!!

[RiverBuck10]

I love this part of the year when you guys start posting your pics!! I hope to get my feeders and cameras out this weekend! I have had the salt out since Jan!! I hope I get a big one on camera that I didn't get last year! I only saw him once, he was pushing 150'!! GIANT!! Hope he is still out there!!

 

[catman529]

yep this is my first year using trail cameras and I love to see the does all fat and ready to drop fawns and see the bucks growing horns. I only have young bucks on camera so far but hope those big boys will show up during the summer so I can watch them grow before killing em all.

 

[BSK]

I don't start running cameras until antlers are almost fully formed (start of August).

 

[Solo Hunter]

I don't start running cameras until antlers are almost fully formed (start of August).

X2

 

[W.Seay]

I don't start running cameras until antlers are almost fully formed (start of August).

Yep

 

[catman529]

I don't start running cameras until antlers are almost fully formed (start of August).

is that because of preference or to reduce pressure on the deer?

 

[Good time Charlie]

He is lazy??...Just kidding very little can be acquired right now other then seeing your fawn crop.Looks like a good acorn crop.. I just set 13 cams...I know Sasquatch is out there ....I thought I had him but it was an ole Kentucky girl out for a good time with some ole toothless guy.

 

[BowGuy84]

I don't start running cameras until antlers are almost fully formed (start of August).

I have done this the past couple of seasons. However, this year I will start them in about a week or 2. I am trying to pattern a shooter for the first week of the season and want a jump on narrowing down which properties/areas I will focus on.

 

[BSK]

I don't start running cameras until antlers are almost fully formed (start of August).

is that because of preference or to reduce pressure on the deer?

I do this because of what I'm trying to generate from trail-cameras--an inventory of bucks using a property. Until the antlers are almost fully formed, I have trouble identifying a buck as one I've photographed in a previous year. I need to see all the little twists, turns, and unique characteristics of his antlers that identify him, and often these aren't displayed until his antlers have finished growing.

 

[catman529]

I don't start running cameras until antlers are almost fully formed (start of August).

is that because of preference or to reduce pressure on the deer?

I do this because of what I'm trying to generate from trail-cameras--an inventory of bucks using a property. Until the antlers are almost fully formed, I have trouble identifying a buck as one I've photographed in a previous year. I need to see all the little twists, turns, and unique characteristics of his antlers that identify him, and often these aren't displayed until his antlers have finished growing.

makes sense, just wanted to be sure I wasn't putting too much pressure on the deer by running cameras all summer. I think I will enjoy watching them grow from nubs to full racks. There's only one buck in particular I would recognize and I hope he shows up later this summer.