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We had a 7 year old carry one side through late April last year, I found his shed on April 30th within a couple days of him dropping it. I'm still getting plenty of pics with headgear.

I don't post on here often but want to say I enjoyed reading through the comments and advice on this post, some good stuff. Phade, Moog5050, nfa-adk, gjs4 and Buckmaster7600 comments are great (not that others aren't). If you listen to what these guys are saying buckman4c, there's some great advice. My advice: If your goal is to bag a mature buck believe in yourself every time you enter the woods and hunt like it's going to happen. Every minute in the woods is one minute closer but as you know it may take years. Too many guys take short cuts or lower the standards because they don't really believe they're going to shoot a mature deer. Find a mature buck and hunt his turf, try to get close be aggressive and flexible. You will learn a lot and eventually it will happen but you won't learn how to do it by studying topos or watching from a distance. Those are tools you can use but just find the animal and go for it and you'll learn how to close the deal. Good luck! And I want to give Phade a shout out - He helped me a lot over the past couple of years with trail cam advice and last season I got a nice buck the first time I hunted him. I had plenty of trail cam pics over two seasons but no one in our hunting party had seen him in person including me before that. I had always used trail cams for taking inventory and what not but never hunted based on their info. Phade was a huge help in fine tuning my setup which helped me zero in on this buck, and when the conditions were right I went in and got him. It's great that guys like the ones in this post are willing to offer their advice and time. Thank you!

Legally you only need to post the property once a year. Take a few pictures or invite the authorities out once posted to show them the effort you went through. You can also send certified mail to particular people which is essentially the same as legal posting it to them. Look up the particulars. Then don't mess around, if you catch someone press charges. Simple as that unless you like wasting time. It sounds to me like you're waging war with the shooting ranges, etc. unless you were planning to do that anyways. If you want it to stop press charges otherwise they know you're not serious and will keep going in. Good luck.

Thanks The_Real_TCIII, I'll give them a try. I have my top and bottom tethered together, but it would still be pretty awkward to have the bottom platform come loose when I pick up me feet to move them. I generally set my seat platform high, so even when I'm sitting I'm at a partial standing position. Generally the bottom is planted but if there's any upward pressure it wouldn't take much to release it on some trees. Also, related to the topic, as others have mentioned most of the instructions mention not to "hop" to set the platform into the bark like others are recommending. Reading the Summit instructions when I got my first one, I found that filing the powder coating off the teeth and making sure the edges are very squared like they recommend really helps and I freshen mine up every season. I've seen some people actually sharpen the teeth to a point and some stand manufacturers make teeth that are sharp. I think that makes it more difficult to remove the platform on the climb. I've tried with and without the teeth edges filed square and it was a big difference. The squared edges grab a lot better but they pull out of the bark a lot easier. Can't beat the climbers for comfort either!

I've always been curious about these, they seem to work from the weight of you standing on the platform, no? So if you lift your feet off the platform when sitting, is there potential for them to lift the foot platform up and release it from the tree? I can see them being great otherwise... Thanks!

It may only take "X" lbs of kinetic energy to kill a deer and you may nail 50 yard shots all day long at the range. Then there's real world hunting situations where you need to allow for some margin of error and non-range conditions if you respect the animal at all. This is where it can get a bit tricky and you're best to do some research to determine your own setup. A gut shot kills a deer every time but can make recovery a real bitch and the animal suffers. So when determining your setup, you should make your goal more than just what it takes to kill a deer... As many have said a field point will kill a deer, but we don't hunt with them. Research it a bit by reading articles about speed, kinetic energy, effective ranges and you will learn a lot.

Nice, good luck!

Yes, I was talking about how the movement fluctuates and it is much easier (for me at least) to pick up on that with the cell cams vs. Comparing card pulls and looking back on weather history.

Camera is working great, here's a better picture of the buck I posted earlier I got off the card before I moved the camera. It was cool getting a sense of movement the past few days with weather as conditions changed - One of the things I like most about the cell cams. Having a couple of them now, it's interesting how they both send more pictures and drop off in sync with the weather. Hard to feel confident that's the cause with just one cam, unless you were to go back through and compare to a non cellular history which I don't really want to take the time to do. Getting it almost real time to the phone is great, and a heck of a lot easier and less intrusive than going and pulling cards every few weeks.

No, it can text to any cell phone carrier. But you have to get the prepaid sim card for the camera from AT&T.

Right now I have it setup to get a limit of 200 texts per month for $5. You can renew as many months as you want. There is a 1000 text per month package for $10. These are the prepaid AT&T plans and are subject to change I guess, but have been around for a while. Then some batteries. So basically for $60 plus batteries you can run it the entire year if you want.

Very pleased with mine so far, thanks for the hook up Phade! It's been on the apple tree in the back yard the past few days getting good pics and is going out to the hunting grounds today. I'm really impressed so far!

I don't have any text pics and the same pic from the sd card that I can post to compare right now but will try to get one when I pull cards next. The text pictures are lower resolution but good enough to show some detail. The higher res version is saved on an SD card so you can pull that sooner than later if there's something you want to take a better look at. I set mine up to take a couple picture burst and it sends the first picture only. The pictures it sends via text or email are decent though.

I'd let that one go another year Larry!