Harold Money jr
Well-Known Member
I've put a couple cameras out the last 2 years mainly to see if my hunches about buck movement are correct. I don't put any attractant out I'm mainly wanting totally natural movement. I am in awe of what you can learn about deer movement in your areas.
I've been hunting my main area 180° wrong forever. Tonight I learned more from a camera than I learned hunting the area for 20+ years. I am excited to learn a mature buck and several more from the past are cutting a corner so they don't have to go in a steep hollow. They just go below the steep part where it flattens out a bit. I had always hunted this area on a north wind that needed to be blowing hard. After what I've seen now a south or west or south west at the polar opposite end of the wood lot will be much better. I've thought they were mainly moving from left to right but it's opposite. Here's a pic of the big guy from tonight while I was hunting another area. I would've never seen him had I hunted there because he would have smelled me. Btw we've killed several nice bucks through the years here, I just think the ones we killed were the outliers in their movement. The area used to burn out very quickly and I believe I know why now.
I've been hunting my main area 180° wrong forever. Tonight I learned more from a camera than I learned hunting the area for 20+ years. I am excited to learn a mature buck and several more from the past are cutting a corner so they don't have to go in a steep hollow. They just go below the steep part where it flattens out a bit. I had always hunted this area on a north wind that needed to be blowing hard. After what I've seen now a south or west or south west at the polar opposite end of the wood lot will be much better. I've thought they were mainly moving from left to right but it's opposite. Here's a pic of the big guy from tonight while I was hunting another area. I would've never seen him had I hunted there because he would have smelled me. Btw we've killed several nice bucks through the years here, I just think the ones we killed were the outliers in their movement. The area used to burn out very quickly and I believe I know why now.
