What's happening?

Besides keeping the trophy rock out I'm staying out. Out of sight out of mind. We use to run cameras year around. One side of the coin is deer got use to us. Other side of the coin was deer got use to where we went. So last 2 years we stay out from end of Turkey season until just before bow. And once bow season gets here we have just a handful of sites we use until muzzleloader season. Trying to keep our pressure down. There is a few spots we will put cameras out in August and run them until late January after we try to do a head count.
 
duckriver said:
Besides keeping the trophy rock out I'm staying out. Out of sight out of mind. We use to run cameras year around. One side of the coin is deer got use to us. Other side of the coin was deer got use to where we went. So last 2 years we stay out from end of Turkey season until just before bow. And once bow season gets here we have just a handful of sites we use until muzzleloader season. Trying to keep our pressure down. There is a few spots we will put cameras out in August and run them until late January after we try to do a head count.
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All deer are different.. Even mature bucks. Some will tolerate more than others and some will leave with just the slightest bit of human pressure. I've seen both cases more than once. I've seen mature bucks stay in an area even after I've been in and out checking cameras and hunting. They almost act like I was never there. And some will leave and never see em again if they catch a little sniff of me.

The decision is hard to stay out or run cameras. Most of the time I go in and run a camera and take a chance. I know it's been a bad decision more than once but I would have never known if I didn't do it. But I've learned what I can and can't get away with. Or at least I think so ;)

I truly believe low pressure is the key to killing mature bucks. And I don't mean not going in until you plan to hunt. I mean going in at the right times and conditions to check cameras and hang stands etc, in and out like you were never there... And also staying out especially several days before you plan to hunt. I like checking cameras that I have to walk to when it's raining or fixing to rain.

Some deer will stay even with a lot of pressure but killing a mature buck will be a stroke of luck on these places.. And he learns you a lot easier when you are careless..
 
Going back to Pike co ILL for 9 days of bow hunting the rut and taking both my boys this time!
 
Not a thing. We're having over 90 of 500 acres cut for timber and the cutters are hard at it. I'm making monthly checks, but other than that I'm staying out of the way.
 
Absolutely nothing. I'm fishing and kicking back. I'll check all my stands a couple weeks before the season and that is it.
 
If you like sweating then spend a lot of time in your woods. I can see no advantage other than getting a few pics of deer that may or may not be there come hunting season or scouting new territory just to learn the lay of the land.
 
Mike Belt said:
If you like sweating then spend a lot of time in your woods. I can see no advantage other than getting a few pics of deer that may or may not be there come hunting season or scouting new territory just to learn the lay of the land.
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Cameras, replenished salt in places and cut out a new food plot... Any recommendation on when to plant throw and grow in east tn? Oh and shooting the bow to stay in shape with it of course
 
Hunter 257W said:
I'm wanting to try something different this year by planting the center of the field with RR beans surrounded by a "rim" of RR corn. Sometime in Sept, I plan to replace the beans with No Plow and leave the corn standing. Should give the deer something to eat all Winter long.
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We did this last year and worked well. Three of us killed our best buck to date out of the field.
 
hitek7 said:
Hunter 257W said:
I'm wanting to try something different this year by planting the center of the field with RR beans surrounded by a "rim" of RR corn. Sometime in Sept, I plan to replace the beans with No Plow and leave the corn standing. Should give the deer something to eat all Winter long.
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We did this last year and worked well. Three of us killed our best buck to date out of the field.
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I like to hear somebody else having success with something I'm trying! I figure that the corn being tall will give the deer cover while sneaking into the No Plow plus obviously they'll eat the corn too. I ended up doing the field a little different though as I left a strip of the No Plow from last year down the middle. It's about 25 feet wide and 80 or so yards long and the annual clover from the No Plow was growing so good and the deer eating it so well, that I couldn't see the point in disking it up to plant soybeans. Still, I did put about 1 acre of Soy Beans around the clover with the remaining 2 outer acres planted in corn. I haven't been back to see the field so am looking forward to Saturday to see how it's doing.
 

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