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Hey fellas. I'm Brandon from NC, I have 3 years of hunting experience so I'm a relatively new hunter. This year I have started doing my own scouting/plots/food sources etc. on my own. My question is, I have a REALLY nice 10pt on my trail camera but I cannot get him to show his face during the daylight. All the pictures of him are about 3-430AM. Also, the doe are rarely showing their face in the daylight as well. Just curious what to do here? I'm hunting from a blind and I have been about 5-6 times this year and have seen nothing. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks guys and glad to be apart of the forums!

find the deer highway's, the rut is getting on and they will be moving a lot...

There was a particular buck I hunted last year that acted like this. I have hundreds of pictures of him coming out in the same field every single night for weeks. Never once did he ever show himself during the day. The older mature bucks seem to go pretty much nocturnal. I don't know if its from pressure because they don't really have much around here. The buck I shot Saturday only came out during the day once over the last few weeks. I happened to be there that day. Most of them slip up eventually but its not often. You just have to be there when he does.

Opportunities present themselves either on the first day/week of the season and when the rut is in full tilt.


Find the does and hope to get lucky !


Dawn & dust are still your best bet.......................

He'll make a mistake! But, you can't shoot him fromt the couch! Try hunting the trails to your food plot if you aren't already. You might catch him on the way out or back. I've always heard you should do that anyway that way they don't get scared to come to the food.

I've hunted a lot over the past 2 weeks but have not seen ONE deer during daylight hours. I put the camera out and once the sun goes down and moonlight hits, the deer come alive! I don't have the time to hunt from sun up to sun down but i do get about 3-5 hours out there a day. Either at dusk or dawn, I've been switching it up to see if i can see anything but nothing has worked.

In a field behind my house I keep seeing 2 - 4 Does feeding a couple of times aday. the Bucks come in during early morning or at night. No chasing yet that I have seen. the rut must be late in my neck of the woods,

CVG Ohio

Or the primary breeding phase is already over?

The woods exploded here today. 4 different bucks in the field running them does around and around fast as they could run.. grunting and raising heck. Does where peeing everywhere when they did stop. Yesterday was calm and the does was alone but acting funny. Guess today would be day 1 of the chase. In my neck of the woods anyways

Be persistent and keep switching tactics. Different locations, different times of day, etc.

Don't set patterns and don't be predictable. Sooner or later big boy will make a mistake. Be there when he does. Perseverance wins.

I concur with Messrs. Bullcamp and Culwell: get out there and HUNT. Different times, different places.

Activity is going to pick up here in the next few days, and he'll make his mistake; hopefully that's when you'll make your move :)

Nothing's certain here, except that you can't hunt him from your couch...that's why we call it "hunting", not "killing"!

Get out there and hunt his butt.

You'll learn a lot even if you don't kill him, and you're bound to have fun.

If you shoot him, it'll be a real highlight.

Good luck!

I appreciate the support guys! The rut is suppose to be picking up in the next week or so here in North Carolina so hopefully that will get the deer on their feet and moving.

Think how tough it is to be a buck. The girls only give it up for a few weeks every year so during those few weeks you have to be on the move all the time getting what you can when you can.
And during those same few weeks you have guys with guns all over the place trying to kill you while you are running around with booty on your mind. Yet they do succeed in getting enough of the girls pregnant to ensure a good crop of fawns for the next year.

No wonder they look so stressed out by the end of the rut.

I have never had good hunting during a full moon. The deer can see to well at night and become almost exclusively nocturnal. I know people say it is the best hunting, but not in my experience. Nice thiung about the moon is that it changes rather quickly. Next couple weeks should be good.

Depends on your season, but when gun season ends here in Micihgan, Muzzleloader starts 6 days after. That is when I really start seeing deer. Cold weather, impending snow storms and new moons.

Also, people get caught up in the killing and score of a buck. You are in the woods hunting and not at work. That is the joy. Once you kill him, the work starts. Try and enjoy the woods, your health and everything around you. You will be surprised how often they start to show up when you really enjoy every part of yoru surroundings.