Originally Posted by
Sniggle
If you saw bucks there last year, they must still be around. Most likely you just do not have the trail cam set up in the right spot. Do you have an established salt lick you can set the camera on?
I would just stick to your plans, take a doe early if that is all that you see, and when the rut comes the bucks will appear.
I used deer cain black magic which seems to be very effective at attracting does, foxes, and coyotes.
Both spots the camera has been in are spots where I saw bucks last year.
I think yall are right, this property cannot be entirely absent of bucks. It must just be an anomalie, and hopefully I will see them as the rut gets started.
I have the camera now in a third spot that is a dirt road with a major deer crossing, and I will check it in a week or two.