Me thinks its gonna be a good year
 

Two weeks ago my friend and I put out trail cams on the mineral licks we set up earlier in the year to help out the does with their fawns and the buck to help with antler growth. My location has roughly 6 or 7 doe working the lick butno buck. My friend on the other hand however has one doe and 5 different buck. Two of these are going to be real dandys. One has super long brow tines and already has a spread past his ears and really good mass! Probably the same one we saw 2 years ago but neither could sink an arrow in him.

Well it is nice to know what is in the area where you hunt. Good luck.

Then I would hunt his spot!!...:biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:...

BPS

BPS - Knowing him he really wouldn't mind. He is just that kind of guy. And I feel bad for him sometimes because he is a good hunter but he has gotten skunked the past couple of years. Even when he does get close to an opportunity something always changes for the worse. Seems every deer he ALMOST gets a crack at has its 6th sense kick in. He begged me 3 or 4 times last year to hunt his stand and see if I could shoot the big buck he was see there during archery. But I passed. And the Lord blessed me with a nice 8 pt. later in the season.

I will be going up to my hunt camp and setting up my cameras in preparation for the fall hunt. Got a couple of places that I want to scout and place cameras. I have two, but want to get my hands on a good camera with video also. Any ideas for a good camera???

I also want to do some coyote hunting. So far they are out smarting me. I am trying to work a little different. Talked to a successful hunter and he has been using his club deer stands to hunt the crafty yotes. He sets up his mojo in the front of the stand and puts his caller behind him. These damned yotes are mocking me at night when I try to sleep and they are howling in the woods! I shall prevail, gentlemen!! I will. :patriot:

LOL - way to go Semi. RAFSOB - I'm thinking the same thing. I got a new call myself. I believe a fawn distress call would be dynamite on yotes this time of year. But I'm a bit leary of using it here - especially by myself as we have several bears in the area. And I sure don't need a big black blurr bearing down on me when all I got is a little bolt action .223.

Ya know Semi, I am beginning to think your wife is right. :cool2:

That fawn should work about now, good call pal. I will try it and who knows, maybe I will get lucky. I know we have a ton of 'em on our property and they need killin'. :fighting0007:

If you're looking for a camera, you might take a look at Natchez. They have several different factory refurbished cameras for about half of what they were new, and they still have the factory warranty. I just ordered a Primos 7mp cam from them. It should hopefully be in the mail the end of the week.

Up where I'm at the does are just starting to drop their fawns. I've got a pic of one and man is she preggo. Could almost see legs sticking out of her!!! She looked some tired,,,,,if a deer can look tired. lol

HA

I have one of these. Works well.

http://www.moultriefeeders.com/produ...id=mfh-dgs-d55

Bronko....

I was joking. I'm not "that guy". I don't hunt my friend's stands unless they tell me to do so because they aren't able to for some reason or they already have their deer...

BPS

Semi...

Hunting over feeders is baiting and it's still illegal in our portion of the state. Some of the special regs areas (kill everything that's brown) in southern Pa. allow baiting but not where I'm at thank God, our deer herd is down enough as it is thanks to that @$$-**** former biologist Gary Alt!!!...

BPS

BPS, the link is to a camera, not a feeder.

On the feeder issue, our club has feeders on almost every foodplot. They are a big factor as far as seeing a lot of deer activity and enjoying a hunt. But the presence of feeders really doesn't have an effect on our herd. Club rules limit each member's kill to a level below State limits and we've proven more than once that our overall take is the same with or without feeders. For example, because of the high price of corn last year about half of our members didn't run their feeders, but they're kill was right in line with the members who did. We spend a lot more time watching deer than shooting them.

I knew you were only joking. But like I said, if he wasn't hunting his stand and knew that there was a nice buck working the area he would tell me to use his stand. I usually tell him no that he did the scouting and work putting up the stand. (which normally isn't true because we help each other with stands.)