About a month before the season started in September I put my trail cam out. For the next month and a half, I was getting some awesome pics of several different bucks. Granted most of them were night time pics, but they were still there.
Move forward to just about 2 months in the season, and I have yet to see any of them while on stand. Our gun season started this past Saturday, aand I have been hunting hard, but not all day sits, I hunt about 3 hours in the morning and 3 hours in the evening, just about every day. Tonight was the 9th sit without seeing 1 deer. Now this is suppose toi be our rut here in Minnesota, and they should be chasing hard.
Some of the problems in the last 9 days, are 70 degree temps, (I think the average is 30's and 40's for around here), that and there is still way too much corn in.
I guesse my question is, do you think those bucks that I got on film in September and October will show back up when the temps get colder, and the corn is all out? We have a 3 week ML season that starts the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and I am wondering if I will have any bucks around to hunt.
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time will tell the warm fronts hurting me here in IA too....I was out tonite only seen one buck, but im actually doe hunting since I tagged out last week(thankgod) I think the next cold front that comes thru Be ready....IA
Some of those early season bucks may very well move to new territory once the velvet comes off. Also concider the possibility of the change in habitat/food source as fall comes on, as compared to when you were getting all the pictures.
For instance, my buddy also gets lots of great buck pictures before the velvet is shed. About the time the velvet comes off and the soybeans leaves begin to turn, just like a light switch, they dissappear. I shot a buck that my buddy had several pictures of this fall. The buck had moved 1.5 miles from the place where he getting his picture taken alot, to where I shot him.
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Food source changing is one reason they might disperse. The BIG reason (IMO), though, is the fact that they disperse (after velvet shed) due to hierarchy reasons. It's easier to get photos of bucks when they all live together. Right now (and for the near future) that ain't gonna happen.
Question about pre season bucks.
