The question every whitetail hunter asks at some point is: What's the best way to use trail cameras in trying to pattern trophy whitetails? Primary scrapes usually occur inside the timber and are often visited by multiple bucks. We will work our hardest to put you in the best position for a successful hunt. This is what makes us different from any & all other places you could buy a camera. Often a buck may live 1/4 mile or more away from your parcel borders and if he does, you should not only know where he crosses onto your land, but which direction he is coming from and by using an arial photo, where he calls home. Jeff Sturgis, founder of Whitetail Habitat Solutions, has found similar success by hanging a grapevine as a licking branch.
And that is a big part of having an enjoyable season. Deer love mineral products like trophy rocks and are drawn to them on a regular basis. If you fall into the category that more than 80% of your mature buck pictures are during the middle of the night, you are not alone; in fact the majority of your neighbors are most likely in the same boat. However, the success will be short lived because it will only take a trip or two for that trophy buck to figure out what's going on. Typically, I like to wait until around noon to check my trail cams, or I check them late at night after I know deer are already in the field feeding. Not all field edge scrapes are alike due to their locations. Collectively, modern Trail cameras have an almost unlimited selection of programming options, but no single camera has all options. Through the previous two years of trail-camera images and three live sightings, I had aged this buck, identified his unique body and antler characteristics, narrowed down his daylight movements to only evenings, and determined where he was bedding. What is the biggest deer you have got on your trail camera? Yet, after weeks of getting incredible daytime photos, it seems "my" bucks have left. We can't stay away from our cameras.
Also, infrared or no-flash models are harder to locate by fellow hunters who happen to be in the area after nightfall; for whatever reason. Find a nice tree, hang a camera and dump a pile of corn…. They are so cagey and eccentric by nature; why take the chance. Best of all, any of the features you mark on your desktop machine will also show up on your mobile device when you're in the field (if you have a Google account). These places are where I tend to get more daytime photos of mature bucks. I don't allow anyone to go with me other than my son, as he does what Dad does. Whitetail Deer Pictures. Place Cameras on Funnels. A hunter near Sadler, Texas sent in this trail camera photo of a wide 10-pointer with a distinctive drop tine point. Refund/Return Policy. As mentioned earlier, corn is expensive and doesn't last very long. Optimally, I would suggest placement about 10 – 20 yards away from the mineral.
Whether or not baiting or scents are allowed in your state, I'd encourage you to consider using a scrape for your next trail camera site. But, it's understandable that not all hunters want to waste batteries and time going to check them. The second option is to create a scrape in an area of your choosing that you can access without educating deer. Once you identify a travel corridor, immediately eliminate the upwind side of the trail for potential stand locations. Although deer don't stay at mineral sites nearly as long as corn-stocked bait stations, they do stop and their behavior does become predictable. Having too many scrapes potentially steals one of the greatest methods of capturing an extremely high percentage of the neighborhood giants, by removing the opportunity to set up outstanding trail cam locations. On a rainy, windy day I then access my open food plot locations during the middle of the day, and retrieve my cards (in the "old days" 36 exp 35mm film). We're seeing double on this one. "I like to find places that lead from known buck bedding areas, as this increases the chances of getting images of what I'm looking for.
I want to learn what is around as quickly and efficiently as possible. The first step for curing most ailments is admitting that there is a problem, so by not settling for midnight trail cam pics, you are well on your way to significantly boosting your potential level of habitat, herd and hunting success. We caught him coming in to the deer attractant we placed in front of the camera. Some of my favorite natural scape locations have involved vines, so you can use that to your advantage for capturing an extremely high percentage of the local buck herd. As we know, the biggest bucks are often the biggest homebodies. This is his little brother.
There's a ton of information on the web. Northerly winds are abnormal for our area and this in itself could make a stand setup even better. But I've learned to be careful not to mess up my hunting in an effort to get photos. If they can hear you, see you or smell you; then they probably won't be there. As you can tell, an effective trailcam strategy involves planning and attention to detail. Tell us exactly what you want and we'll program your camera before we ship it. Typically, mounting a camera high and aiming it downward greatly reduces its detection area. This usually will keep those with sticky hands from walking off with your goods. It is no fun to hunt nocturnal deer, no matter how big they are or how much history you have with them. Keep checking back as we add more trail cam pics throughout the year! "Late season can be a tough time, due to weather conditions. Ridge lines and intersecting logging roads are obvious scrape locations for mature bucks.
Do your trail cam locations stack up? It all just depends on where they are bedding, and you will not know that unless you watch where they come out at in the afternoon or go back to in the morning. "I fully believe deer change areas during different times of the year/rut cycle. There's no need to fill out a registration card and we handle everything in-house.
Video mode helps you not only age the buck and gauge what caliber deer you have around, it can also tell you how a buck is traveling to and from the scrape. "But it seems like if you hang these branches over a scrape the deer are funneled to it. Then check out my "Easy Mock Scrape Recipe". But, deer like to bed in swampy areas because it is cooler, and they can detect predators farther away. His core had moved another quarter-mile farther west and his early season behavior remained nocturnal. This spectacular farm buck was caught on camera in mid-October last year near Morgantown. While out cruising during late October, mature bucks will make massive circles around sections of timber catching other bucks' scent and finding those prime scrapes.