What's on your cameras this season?
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troy fairweather
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We don't have cameras but my buddy said he's seen a few big deer already on his farm. Been seeing many fawns driving, all the deer look nice and healthy.
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I had one picture of a pileated woodpecker...just before he nailed the "eye"! That's a new one to me. Now it just takes blurry pictures of grass blowing in the wind despite a repair that seemed sound. My other camera I apparently placed in an Indian graveyard, as the batteries run down to zero after only a few pictures. That one is several years old, and is probably just tired, or something sticks on and drains the batteries.
Time for a couple of new cameras I think! I'd really like to know what's going on in my woods, and I've become addicted to trail camera pictures.
Time for a couple of new cameras I think! I'd really like to know what's going on in my woods, and I've become addicted to trail camera pictures.
marksman13
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No shooter bucks yet, but three youngsters with plenty of genetic material to become shooters. Several does and a few turkeys. No pigs yet.
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earlthegoat2
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No bruisers but some cuties.
Chuck R.
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I haven't even put them out yet...
I did get 2 food plots in this weekend (NEED Rain!) and refreshed 1 mineral lick and put out a salt block. Next is checking out the feeder and filling it. The %^% $10 a bag corn kinda sucks, but that was it's own thread. I getting ready for a business trip, so I'll definitely get a couple out before I take off.
I did get 2 food plots in this weekend (NEED Rain!) and refreshed 1 mineral lick and put out a salt block. Next is checking out the feeder and filling it. The %^% $10 a bag corn kinda sucks, but that was it's own thread. I getting ready for a business trip, so I'll definitely get a couple out before I take off.
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You have everything you need right there. Don't worry, IF you have the Girls....the Boys will be along soon enough.
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Just youngsters right now...and few 3 yr olds, all about the same size, nothing noteworthy yet.
But that will all change about mid Sept. on my property.
But that will all change about mid Sept. on my property.
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Glockula
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A few does and this guy showing up. Doubt he will be there in season.
I've never seen racks that big in the woods of western NY. I have a friend who used to take one like those every few years, but he would wait all season, some years not taking a deer at all, just to get one as big as those not "noteworthy" deer.
I have at least one bear that doesn't like game cameras. It has ripped two cameras off of trees and damaged a third, all since last October. It played with the first casualty for 20 minutes and I have 150 photos as it tossed the camera around. Let's see if I can post these photos.
First shows the bear as it approaches my camera in October. Second photo shows the bear as it plays with the camera. We didn't find this camera until after I lost the second camera to a bear and went back looking for it. The only sign of this camera in October was the strap still attached to the tree with no visible damage. I didn't have a lock on it, so I assumed someone had stolen the camera (because no damage to strap) but was curious why a thief would put the strap back on the tree after taking the camera. Now I know. The camera spent nearly six months under leaves and still works.
Here is a bear as it rips my second camera off of a tree in March:
We found the above camera about 10 feet from the tree and the mount was mangled, so we were pretty sure a bear had attacked it. Sure enough, we find the above photo. That's when we went back looking for the camera that disappeared in October.
At this point I considered taking down all of my cameras. The bear had already cost me hundreds of $. Then I decided, what good are game cams sitting in a box. I might as well use them until the bear destroys them. Well here is a photo from the third camera in August:
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This camera is still attached to the tree. It's a cell-enabled camera, so I occasionally get a photo of a mouse or squirrel as it runs below the camera.
Here is a recent photo of a bear taken within 250 yards of the damage cameras. The cameras damaged in October and August were within 130 yards of this photo:
I really hope I see this bear in the woods come November! I'm not going to buy any more cameras until I hang a bear skin rug on my wall or I have an entire year with no cameras damaged.
First shows the bear as it approaches my camera in October. Second photo shows the bear as it plays with the camera. We didn't find this camera until after I lost the second camera to a bear and went back looking for it. The only sign of this camera in October was the strap still attached to the tree with no visible damage. I didn't have a lock on it, so I assumed someone had stolen the camera (because no damage to strap) but was curious why a thief would put the strap back on the tree after taking the camera. Now I know. The camera spent nearly six months under leaves and still works.
Here is a bear as it rips my second camera off of a tree in March:
We found the above camera about 10 feet from the tree and the mount was mangled, so we were pretty sure a bear had attacked it. Sure enough, we find the above photo. That's when we went back looking for the camera that disappeared in October.
At this point I considered taking down all of my cameras. The bear had already cost me hundreds of $. Then I decided, what good are game cams sitting in a box. I might as well use them until the bear destroys them. Well here is a photo from the third camera in August:
This camera is still attached to the tree. It's a cell-enabled camera, so I occasionally get a photo of a mouse or squirrel as it runs below the camera.
Here is a recent photo of a bear taken within 250 yards of the damage cameras. The cameras damaged in October and August were within 130 yards of this photo:
I really hope I see this bear in the woods come November! I'm not going to buy any more cameras until I hang a bear skin rug on my wall or I have an entire year with no cameras damaged.
Flintknapper
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Its all relative to where you hunt of course. On my property....either of those 3 year olds would be passed over and left to get more age and development. In parts of New York State or Pennsylvania, yes....I'm sure these very average bucks would be a welcome sight, but they are nothing special here. They need a little more time (couple more years) to see if they are going to mature into 'shooters' or not.
Neighboring properties might take them....but I won't.
The winters are quite harsh in the area I hunt and the deer population was decimated by a terrible winter about 20 years ago. Consequently, it is very difficult to get a doe permit as the NY DEC tries to get the numbers to rebound. Last year, only landowners (i.e., owners of >50 acres) and disabled vets could get a doe permit (and even then only one). It is also an area with a high concentration of hunters. Put that all together and not many bucks are allowed to walk away.
marksman13
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Pigs finally found the bait. Guess I‘ll go try to put the hurt on them tomorrow night. Gonna be wet. Ida dropped 8” of rain on us in the past two days.
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marksman13
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Why you got a like on that post......
Well, the pigs were granted a pass tonight. We had some straight line winds or a small tornado drop a tree on our house this afternoon. Everybody is safe and most of the house is okay. Carport and an outside closet caught the brunt of it, but it sure put a damper on the pig hunting plans for tonight.
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Yessir.
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Marksman 13,
Tree on a house tends to divert hunting to the to more pressing issues. I sympathize with your dilemma, had one fall on my house years ago, did about $40k in damages. Sad part was Mr & Mrs Squirrel & family were displaced as well.....planted a new tree but they left the neighborhood never to return.
Looks like you have enough firewood to do BBQ's for a while....when you do get those pigs.
Fascinating how wildlife weather these storms and pop back up as though nothing happened.
Tree on a house tends to divert hunting to the to more pressing issues. I sympathize with your dilemma, had one fall on my house years ago, did about $40k in damages. Sad part was Mr & Mrs Squirrel & family were displaced as well.....planted a new tree but they left the neighborhood never to return.
Looks like you have enough firewood to do BBQ's for a while....when you do get those pigs.
Fascinating how wildlife weather these storms and pop back up as though nothing happened.
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Chuck R.
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Sorry to hear it, they say that's what insurance is for, but it just doesn't make up for the loss.
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