ORIGINAL: Germ
ORIGINAL: Siman08/OH
Greg, heres some food for thought:
If you have been putting the cams out for 3 years now, how many 1.5 and 2.5 year old bucks do you get pictures of?
Say you got a bunch of pics of a 1.5 year old the first year you put it out, then the 2nd year you got more of him and so on. Now its the 4th year, and he would be 4.5 years old. Do you think he would "start" to avoid the camera, or do you think he would be ok with it?
That is an instersting point, also remember some of those young deer move to other locations.
I have a theroy[8D] Best time to hunt a location is the first two years, the reason is none of the older deer "know" you're there. By the third yearthe deer that were 1.5 are now 3.5 and they know you are there, they might not know where, but they know
I think its more than a theory. I hunt almost exclusively on my own property and the properties that surround it, and i know that the deer "know" im around. You can tell with there body language, like how there always looking around and watching certain spots (such as logging roads, which we use to get to our stands)