Okay guys, don' t worry, I ain' t giving up without a fight

I have been leaving all the calls and scents at home lately. Towards the beginning of season, the bucks were chasing does, but, that seemed to have stopped, probablly due to the weather getting so much warmer.

The oak tree with all the scrapes below it is probablly going to be where I focus on. There is a GREAT place to sit and watch over that tree. There are a bunch of grown up golden rods in a single patch that are about 18 yards from the tree. They are probablly about 5 feet tall and are so thick that when sitting down in them, a deer has no chance of seeing any outline. I was in there last week and had a small 3 point (the last deer I saw) walk past me at just a few yards and he stood around those scrapes for probablly close to half and hour. He never had any clue I was there.

I am really hoping that in the next week and a half or two weeks that the temps will drop down again and the deer activity will pick up. I guess I won' t know unless I am out there

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I' ve still been seeing lots of deer in central Minnesota. But not as many as earlier! The only thing, or problem I can attribute your bad luck to is nocturnal deer. I have 2 deer cameras in the woods that get moved weekly. The last two weeks 95 % of my pictures have been at night. Over 65% from midnight to4 a.m.
My best (favorite stand) Had a camera on its main trail, not one daylight photo last week. Glad I didn' t hunt it! I think your bad luck is just about to turn around!


Good Luck!

yeah if things aren' t bad enough , now the juniors and seniors are running around with guns after the deer (does) and the freakin squirrel hunters , it' s enough to make you want to jump out of you tree stand !

Things will pick up within the next 10 days or so Buck Magnet. Hey, don' t feel bad, I' ve only got out twice this season due to a scheduled surgery and health complications from kidney stones. If I am lucky.........I might be able to hunt near the peak of the rut in November.

Jason,
You' re going about it all wrong!
What you need to do is this.........next tree you pick a tree to climb into, strap that darn " Good Luck Charm" of a Stealth Camera to the base of the tree!
You have a bunch of attention starved deer who only want to come out when they know they are on camera. You put the camera away and the deer disappeared.

Either that or they know when you leave the camera that you won' t be back for a few days so they feel safe!

Hang the camera, kill a deer. Should work like a charm!

Actually now would be a good time to hang it, and you might get an idea about when your invisible deer are using the area.

Hey Buck Magnet, Well the only help I can suggest for now is to do something or hunt somewhere, where you just wouldn' t even consider hunting. Just some unlikely place that you would just normally pass by and say no deer in there right mind would come by here. Just a suggestion.

Good luck

Brian

Looking good for tomorrow ! It was 68 when I left for work this morning. Tomorrows high is going to be 48 ! That should get things moving.

believe me when i tell you that i know what you are going through, i set in the mornings and evenings, but in the late morning and early afternoon, about 7 or 8 of my friends and i push off some areas, like we have done for the last 12 yrs...Now let me tell you this is the worst year in the history of my hunting lifetime, i have not seen 1 deer while setting, and while pushing deer, we have only seen about 2 deer to for every 6 drives and sometimes 0 for every 6 drives.... The young kids that hunt with us are losing interest, the deer just arent there... all the extra tags are taking there effects in our area, so now comes a good question are we doing the right thing to bring in bigger bucks and not many deer? we are losing youth hunters like crazy, and if this keeps up i think we will lose a lot more.... I dont know what the answer is and im not quiting... no way, im just going to hunt as hard as i ever do, and if it dont change by the end of bowseason then ill know for sure that all of the above is true!!!!!!!

Fair weather hunters.[:' (] I' ve left hundreds of them in my gut piles.[>:] They all can talk the talk but when the going gets a little tough they knuckle under like a beginning wannabee. Sure it' s more fun when you see deer every time out and pass up numerous shots and deer. BUT Hey, it' s hunting. So you' re not seeing any deer. Guess who' s fault that is.[:-][&:] YUP, you guessed it. It ain' t the deers.[8D] If the old way isn' t working.... try something different.