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Alright I just pray they come back.

I pull the cards once a week. I have one cell cam. i just moved the cell cam over into another area to see if there is more activity. I won’t need to go into that area at all. If there is action I’ll go hang a stand there. If not I probably won’t waste my time. the area I saw the big bucks still has cameras in it and my stand. I’ll let it soak for 2 or 3 weeks now before going to check it again, and maybe they will have come back around by then. I am just impatient and want to shoot one now cause the season opened haha

Thanks , yes patience , just hard haha

Feel like I shouldn’t even put the cameras out until the end of September . Get you all excited for them to leave hahah

So many of you know from my other threads my cams were doing great all summer and beginning of September. Nice shooter bucks in all. The last two weeks of September came and boom , the bucks and doe disappeared . i am getting like one Tiny doe pic a week. very frustrated today I did some scouting and moved a camera mover to a different area about 1/2 mile away. It looked to be a high traffic area. I set up a licking branch and mock scrape. Pour some buck urine in the scrape and som tarsal gland on the branch. If it gets activity over the next week I’ll throw another stand up over there. I just feel it’s a waste hunting my other stand now because it completely died off. Is this true? I did leave 2 cameras over there. It’s my first year actually scouting and trying to learn there movement. Am I doing it wrong?

Ugh my cams have been dead. Im going to head out Wednesday’s and lay some buck urine scent on some wicks see if I can get anything to take interest maybe bring something back around

Not a new hunter by any means just really the first time trying to pattern them and scout them and trail cams and what not. I have always just gone and picked a spot and hope for the best. I have shot many deer. I just never gave any care to actually scout them. Now I have more time/money/etc So now I want to like work for it not. Like have that sense of success that I’ve been tracking this deer for months and pics of him and bam now I got him ya know? Trying to really learn the sport instead of just doing the sport. If that makes sense.

So you think I’m going to start getting more nighttime photos of bucks in the near future? Then em eventually end of the month they make start working back into day light. Wonder why why people hunt early oct if they are so unpredictable / not around

I stress so much on scent control and I honestly feel like you can never be scent free reguardless. I wear gloves when I touch my clothes and bag them and crazy about wash machine and dryer. And I’m like all for what. I still breath and sweat out there they smell it regardless. I think from now on just spray scent killer on me before I walk in.

Ok will def use it. No thanks lymes disease

Who is coating there clothes in tbis before bow season? It says odorless on it but I still feel it stinks. I am afraid this will spook deer. but I think I am more afraid of the amount of ticks during bow season.

Ugh so my card pull was lame today. Hoping it pics up again and those bucks comes back. My two shooters not on cam once this week

Going to check the other cams in the area today. I am hoping better results then the cell cam, but I don’t have high hopes. What do you do if the other cams also slow down. Move your stand? Or stick it out and hope it pics up

This is only based on my once cell cam. I’m going to go out and check my regular cams tomorrow in the same area, hopefully there is a lot of traffic on them. Hopefully

Alright hopefully this is just a bad week and picks up again

My trail cam pics have really slowed down as far as activity on them goes. Doesn’t anyone else have this issue as October approaches? this sucks

I have the knight and hale run n gun 300. Absolutely love it

In the market for some new camo set up. I need something for late season that’s warm. Not it sure if I am going with nomad or first lite or what but I can’t decide on which pattern to get. How much does it actually matter? i do like the new nomad pattern for white tail as well as the first lite white tail pattern. Real tree? Mossey oak? Bottomlands? I like the bottomlands camo to what do you guys think? Thanks

Good point gman about them patterning your scent. all good info here. Hope to see some new big bucks start comming through .. maybe haha

They are very interested in my pee. Haha I’d say it’s working. Every pic I have gotten over the last couple days at least has 1 pic of there nose in my scrape

Thanks! ill just keep watching the cams and see what happens

Ok that sucks hopefully he sticks around after the velvet comes off, guess I need to check and see if I am still getting pics of him after the velvets off i wasn’t going to go back in until opening day but I do pretty good with the scent control. Not sure once a week will hurt. also this means though other bucks or maybe even bigger bucks may travel in come in hard horn for season right?

Hard to see but still looks like he’s in velvet to. I guess that should be shedding any day now?

Have a doe sniffing it already

It’s to early though technically for them to pay attention to scrapes right? I just heard the earlier the better to start