Realizing that your experience with mature bucks is limited at best, I will try to humor you.............

1) Anywhere you put a camera is/can be a mature bucks "home", there's no escaping it.

2) That's how you get their pic so you can see what's out there.

3) By doing so post season until antler drop you give them plenty of time to calm down.

4) I said they skirt the cameras, not flee the county.

5) Do you think that my methods have hurt my success?


Rob, what size are those bucks?

After 3 years of using cameras I have gotten pics of mature bucks to be sure, but......... none of them are top end (160+) and there are plenty of top end bucks in the areas where I put my cameras.

In the areas where I put my cameras you cannot put out any kind of food or mineral blocks at all - totally illegal.

My experience is that without the use of a food pile, getting mature bucks on film is difficult. The older and larger he is, the more difficult it is to catch him on camera.

These experiences are only related to the post season until antler drop. I don't use cameras any other time of year.