Natural Hunting Skill vs Trail Cams
#101
Good luck to you as well. I shot a doe Saturday so I'll just be watching from a tree for a while now unless a big boy happens by. I slacked on getting the freezer organized and ready this year so its overfilled now.
#102
Sounds like a good problem to have. Congrats on the doe!
#103
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 101
Ok, one last question. I'll admit i've never used a stand, and i've never used cameras.
If you were looking for places to put up stands. Wouldn't putting up cameras for those spots be helpful before the hunt starts?
I understand a camera won't kill a deer for you, but isn't it added information you can use for your hunt?
Also, if you're a trophy hunter. Wouldn't it help you see what trophy bucks are in the area? Unlike mule deer. Whitetails don't have a big area they live in. Seeing one on camera would tell you what's in the area.
Putting a camera on a game trail would tell you how much traffic an area is getting.
None of this info is helpful to a hunter? It sure would be for me.
If you were looking for places to put up stands. Wouldn't putting up cameras for those spots be helpful before the hunt starts?
I understand a camera won't kill a deer for you, but isn't it added information you can use for your hunt?
Also, if you're a trophy hunter. Wouldn't it help you see what trophy bucks are in the area? Unlike mule deer. Whitetails don't have a big area they live in. Seeing one on camera would tell you what's in the area.
Putting a camera on a game trail would tell you how much traffic an area is getting.
None of this info is helpful to a hunter? It sure would be for me.
#104
Part of my scouting for elk is looking for bedding areas. It very hard to find bedding areas without disturbing the elk. It's also hard getting close to them in bedding areas during the hunt, but that's another story.
I also look for waterholes, wallows etc. For me to see if those are being used by the elk, and when they're being used. I have to hide out, and watch. That could be an all day job, and i still can't see if they're using them at night. I've often thought that hanging a camera would make it much easier, but i'm stubborn. I continue to hunt like my dad did, and how he taught me in the 1950's. Sort of in honor of him.
Anyway, use your cameras, and enjoy it. I know I enjoy my scouting. I combine it a lot with fly fishing the high mountain creeks. Nothing beats some brookies for lunch cooked up next to a creek high in the Rockies.
I also look for waterholes, wallows etc. For me to see if those are being used by the elk, and when they're being used. I have to hide out, and watch. That could be an all day job, and i still can't see if they're using them at night. I've often thought that hanging a camera would make it much easier, but i'm stubborn. I continue to hunt like my dad did, and how he taught me in the 1950's. Sort of in honor of him.
Anyway, use your cameras, and enjoy it. I know I enjoy my scouting. I combine it a lot with fly fishing the high mountain creeks. Nothing beats some brookies for lunch cooked up next to a creek high in the Rockies.
#105
lol not as good as it sounds. The biggest reason the freezer is so full is because we have just been pulling stuff out randomly all year and it a big unorganized mess. More of a lack of organization problem than a to much meat problem.
Usually before season starts I pull everything out, defrost the freezer, and give some meat to some people that need it and start over but we have had a lot going on recently so it is what it is.
Usually before season starts I pull everything out, defrost the freezer, and give some meat to some people that need it and start over but we have had a lot going on recently so it is what it is.
#106
Part of my scouting for elk is looking for bedding areas. It very hard to find bedding areas without disturbing the elk. It's also hard getting close to them in bedding areas during the hunt, but that's another story.
I also look for waterholes, wallows etc. For me to see if those are being used by the elk, and when they're being used. I have to hide out, and watch. That could be an all day job, and i still can't see if they're using them at night. I've often thought that hanging a camera would make it much easier, but i'm stubborn. I continue to hunt like my dad did, and how he taught me in the 1950's. Sort of in honor of him.
Anyway, use your cameras, and enjoy it. I know I enjoy my scouting. I combine it a lot with fly fishing the high mountain creeks. Nothing beats some brookies for lunch cooked up next to a creek high in the Rockies.
I also look for waterholes, wallows etc. For me to see if those are being used by the elk, and when they're being used. I have to hide out, and watch. That could be an all day job, and i still can't see if they're using them at night. I've often thought that hanging a camera would make it much easier, but i'm stubborn. I continue to hunt like my dad did, and how he taught me in the 1950's. Sort of in honor of him.
Anyway, use your cameras, and enjoy it. I know I enjoy my scouting. I combine it a lot with fly fishing the high mountain creeks. Nothing beats some brookies for lunch cooked up next to a creek high in the Rockies.
That fishing part sounds pretty awesome.
#107
#108
Ok, one last question. I'll admit i've never used a stand, and i've never used cameras.
If you were looking for places to put up stands. Wouldn't putting up cameras for those spots be helpful before the hunt starts?
I understand a camera won't kill a deer for you, but isn't it added information you can use for your hunt?
Also, if you're a trophy hunter. Wouldn't it help you see what trophy bucks are in the area? Unlike mule deer. Whitetails don't have a big area they live in. Seeing one on camera would tell you what's in the area.
Putting a camera on a game trail would tell you how much traffic an area is getting.
None of this info is helpful to a hunter? It sure would be for me.
If you were looking for places to put up stands. Wouldn't putting up cameras for those spots be helpful before the hunt starts?
I understand a camera won't kill a deer for you, but isn't it added information you can use for your hunt?
Also, if you're a trophy hunter. Wouldn't it help you see what trophy bucks are in the area? Unlike mule deer. Whitetails don't have a big area they live in. Seeing one on camera would tell you what's in the area.
Putting a camera on a game trail would tell you how much traffic an area is getting.
None of this info is helpful to a hunter? It sure would be for me.
If I hang a camera after all the scouting it doesn't change anything. I am going to sit in this location as long as it takes till I harvest a whitetail, regardless of what pictures the trail camera shows, however good or bad the pictures I look at make it out to be.
#109
Certainly a different environment. I hunt a little over 1000 acres in IL. It sets between the IL and Mississippi river so its not flat like most of IL but in that 1000 acres I'm pretty confident with where to hunt and I make adjustments based on what I see when I'm hunting.
#110
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: North Idaho
Posts: 1,071
I'm not sure why nobody wants to admit that cameras don't help. I sure wouldn't be doing something if it doesn't help. I posted a link that says they help, and explained how.
Like I said. I have no problem with using cameras if that what someone does. Just be honest why you're using them. It's like someone using a GPS, and saying they don't help them find their way.
Like I said. I have no problem with using cameras if that what someone does. Just be honest why you're using them. It's like someone using a GPS, and saying they don't help them find their way.
Wrong assumption bud. I use no optics at all. I'm a still hunter, and only hunt in the dark timber for mule deer, elk, and black bear. Never had a shot over 75 yds with 90% of them in bow range. I use a sidelock muzzleloader.
I was born and brought up in Mass. I hunted for plenty of whitetails with a shotgun in the 50's. Pretty much bow range again.
How do you hunt?
I was born and brought up in Mass. I hunted for plenty of whitetails with a shotgun in the 50's. Pretty much bow range again.
How do you hunt?
Why in the heck are we "HUNTERS" arguing about who hunts the best, or the purest way. Whether we like it or not technology is here to stay. Some choose to use it some choose not. We all buy a deer tag and hunt within our states hunting regs. Does that make us better or worse hunters. No that makes us legal hunters. We as hunters loose ground everyday, and us putting each other down or questioning each on the way we hunt brings us down more. Hunt the way u want with what legall tools you have. Lets start backing each other because one day we may wake up and it may not be there.
The only buck we ever shot that we had on cams was nowhere near where the cam was. It was purely coincidence. During the rut, I'll put cameras in a couple fields that deer only hit at night. It is only so I can get pictures. I have no idea where these bucks come from. Some may just be wanderers, looking for doe.