RE: How many of you have arrowed a mature buck WITHOUT
 

The only advantage I see coming from my trail cam photos is.....I know what "might" come by my stand. Does that keep me ON stand, longer?

Maybe;)

RE: How many of you have arrowed a mature buck WITHOUT
 

I don't know, Jeff ...... never done it that way ...... again though, hunting isa personal deal ......


Yessir .... calling is as old as the hunt itself ...... outside of electronics, technology hasn't increased too much there ......

RE: How many of you have arrowed a mature buck WITHOUT
 

Jeff, do you think that your camera has influenced where you put your stand and maybe even stopped you from shooting a younger buck?

RE: How many of you have arrowed a mature buck WITHOUT
 

I have killed big deer both ways. I believe, done properly, baiting is a huge advantage. I have always taken more pride in the deer I took without baiting.

RE: How many of you have arrowed a mature buck WITHOUT
 

Heck no.

My camera STAYS on a mineral site. By the time the season rolls around....they're pretty much off the minerals, anyways....and I don't have a hunting stand site within eyesight of the site.

I'm severely limited on where I can hunt, anyways....due to a man made breakline (Parks system)....properties I don't have permission to hunt....and the actual size of the properties.

I basically hunt where I can....and go to the most productive spots I've learned through just hunting there.

On part 2 of your question.....I'm done shooting younger bucks. If I thought that was all the property held....I'd eat my tags. TOO many does for me to kill for me to feel any accomplishment (MY outlook) in just getting "A" buck.

RE: How many of you have arrowed a mature buck WITHOUT
 

Same here.

RE: How many of you have arrowed a mature buck WITHOUT
 

You can't use bait here and game calls don't work but the only bait we can use is food plots which you never spend the time to make because they always dry up cause you can't get water up the hill to them and then you can use any minerals but they hardly every touch the deer co-cain so you pretty much just find a good trail and put a tree stand up but I do use trail cameras.

RE: How many of you have arrowed a mature buck WITHOUT
 

Greg ..... I think you are a tremendously accomplished hunter, and I would love to listen to all you know .... I follow your posts along with many other guys on here as ones that lays the horn on the ground consistently ...... I know you use cams somewhere ....so your answer shocked me ......can you please tell me when you use them and when you don't?

RE: How many of you have arrowed a mature buck WITHOUT
 

I don't use any of that stuff.

RE: How many of you have arrowed a mature buck WITHOUT
 

I have!

I never have hunted over a food plot unless you call normal agriculture afood plot. Never used Bait for Deer. Only used Game cams the last 2 years and even though it is Fun! I wouldn't say it's much of an advantage.

Dan