wizzzio

Nuts always get them on cam at 2-3am then ghosts!...these made it past muzzleloader here!

wizzzio

I need a new plan!..They come off a steep mountain for does and food!....travel a mile i think!
Anybody hunt deer like this?

bronko22000

I had (have) very large buck also where I hunt. I'll get pics of them in late summer during the day but once archery season starts and they get that first whiff of human they vanish. My buddy says they go into groundhog holes! I almost tend to agree with him. I hunt exclusively public land and always see big buck on my trail cams. One year in particular I had a monster I named Stickers because of all the junk on his rack. I hunted all year for him and never saw him except on cam in the middle of the night. Not even during the rut. I did end up killing a nice buck toward the end of the season and never saw Stickers again.

elkman30

Sounds like you have skittish bucks going nocturnal. It can happen. What time of day are you hunting? I've noticed that during the season, buck go nocturnal and sometimes see them on my cams at daybreak.

hardcastonly

"My buddy says they go into groundhog holes! "

thanks! I needed a good laugh!

CalHunter

^^^ What he said. The older bucks get wise quickly and disappear during daytime.

hardcastonly

we must all have similar hunting buddies,
the guys I hunt with swear

" the local game warden spends most nights using pogo stick with a deer hoof print on the bottom,
https://www.stampedconcretesupplies.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/deer-hoof-TOOL-and-PRINT-together-600w.jpg

https://www.vat19.com/item/v4-pro-10-foot-pogo-stick?adid=gshopping&utm_source=google&utm_medium= cpc&adpos=&scid=scplppro-pogo-stick&sc_intid=pro-pogo-stick&gclid=Cj0KCQiArt6PBhCoARIsAMF5wag69VI5xx_TR9 aaLX5pouXy5PXK7G9j7O_bZG3BNJCn9Gb02TcUq78aAntEEALw _wcB

leaving numerous deep obvious tracks in the areas they swear have not held a live deer in decades!"

wizzzio

I hunt from Before light too dark sometimes, but fail to see the monsters!...In recent weeks in have been tracking after a light snow and get a nice one on cam the night before. I really believe they travel a little farther than one would think.

sportsmanus

that's nice dude your night vision looks good

bronko22000

How to hunt nocturnal buck: You only need this