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Great pics, I have always gotten great pics from the Primos cams

Could be eye shine of a deer behind the cam, possibly the terrain slopes up behind the deer. Definitely not a UFO

Good luck and welcome

Agreed

The kids that are highly recruited are getting paid some way shape fashion or form. Believe it or not they are not without resources when they need them, of course they have devised ways to pay these kids without drawing attention, whether through perks or small jobs for cash. I have seen it first hand. I worked with a guy that was highly recruited in HS, in Kentucky mid 80's, 6'-11 white guy. He drove a brand new vette off the showroom floor as a high school senior and the car was his from then on. Then he went to college and was never without cash, as he tells it he was paid to play HS & college ball. Unfortunately he blew his back out in sophomore or junior yr. I know NCAA is much more vigilant today then they were in the 80's but some of these kids are still well taken care of.

Definitely getting into high dollar tree stands here but if you have your own land or know you can keep this thing in place for a number of yrs then worth the investment. Big Game ladder stands are quality , i have experience with 2 man with bench seat and the thing was solid & well built. If it were me I would add less than $100.00 to the cost of nexus and go for the 18ft Millennium, they are bad arse , comfortable and well worth it

great find and excellent matching set

I have wished the same countless times on stand, just to know if there are deer nearby that could stroll in. The last thing we need is drones buzzing all over the woods scouting for deer.

4.8 Magnitude Earthquake on Saturday in Yellowstone A lot of earthquakes in the past week, California, Yellowstone & Chile

I started bow hunting with a bear recurve, muzzleloaders I have used are a far cry from being primitive, my early days of rifle hunting were a Win MDL 94 iron sights. I appreciate and respect the traditionalists that stay true. But I am staying with my compound bow, modern scoped ML & the scoped .308. I have always invested a lot of time effort & money in hunting so I want to increase my opportunities via my equipment. I

Sky, you are using homebrew cams? Excellent pics

Natchez Shooters Supply I seem to always get a good deal there.

I was hunting in Georgia in 04 and had 2 does run high speed right past my stand early in the AM. A minute or two later I hear unmistakable rapid grunting for very far off. This has to be the furthest I have heard a deer grunting from. Anyway I heard this guy almost non stop grunting in a steady slow trot, heading my way. I know I heard this buck coming in hot and heavy for almost 2 minutes, zig zagging down the ridge into a river bottom. I had laid out scent bombs and when he caught wind of it he slammed on the brakes , did what appeared to be a lip curl and took one fatal step, respectable 6 ptr made a death run of about 50 yds and met his demise. The whole time he was coming in until right before he stopped he was grunting like a grunt between each breath. Changing tones and volumes throughout.

I too have this happen, the bigger boys will not come flying in to 20 ft from the stand, younger bucks will. The big boys hang up 20-40 yds from the stand and when they do not see the deer that made the call they leave quickly. Thankfully I usually have a firearm in hand but have had a few occasions with bow where you are excited about the encounter but frustrated about the deer being either just out of range or doesn't offer a shot.

That is pretty funny

It is rampant everywhere, I would go into the bank and almost weekly see women cashing multiple govt checks. Decked out in designer clothes, handbags, I phones etc. It always irked me. Illegals burden the system beyond belief. Recipients educate each others on how to get benefits, generations living on welfare. The abuse of the system is a Major dilemma for this country, I don't see it ever being fixed. I am all for someone/families that need help receiving it, granted that it doesn't become a career or main source of income but there are probably more abusers than worthy cases

Very good stands

I use grunting rattling, and bleats and have had very good success over the past 25 yrs. I could really get long winded on this subject and will try to keep it short. My favorite call is by a mile a grunt. First deer I killed @ 12 yrs old grunted before it came in. So here I am sitting in a Baker tree stand (wonder how many remember those) when a hear this deep guttural noise three times in a row. Scared the daylights out of me to be totally honest, had no clue what it was. So as I am sitting there scared out of my mind when I see a deer walking up within two minutes from the exact direction of the noise, spike buck and the rest is history, I had my first deer. So we are back at the skinning shed that night and my father is telling a friend and very good hunter about the noise I heard, all this is happening under whispers like some sort of clandestine operation since we hunt heavily hunted public land and @ the main skinning shack . I explain the sound to him and he says after thinking for a minute " you heard that buck grunt, not many people have ever heard that". A light bulb went off....ding ding ding. Deer calling was in its infancy at the time. There were not many options as far as deer calls out there in the mid 80's but I was determined. I had seen one or two hunting videos that we rented on VHS talked about vocalizations and grunting, I was determined like Ralphie from A Christmas Story, my Red Rider was going to be a grunt call. By the next season I had saved up the money and bought a grunt call, Woods n Wise if I remember correctly. So the following season believe it or not I grunt up a 3 ptr, by imitating the sound I heard by the trophy spike make the yr before. The following yr I grunt up a 4ptr....I am on to something. I can remember my father looking at me with almost shame in his eyes saying what the hell kind of nonsense you have there, you wasted your money, your going to sit in the middle of the quiet woods blowing on that damn thing like a trumpet. I learned all the hunting basics from my father but newer techniques came from me. He blasted me for the first two yrs about my waste of money grunt call and wrote of my two kills by coincidence. Then he snuck my grunt call with him one afternoon during the week and called in and killed a buck. He looked like a kid @ Christmas relaying the story that night. IN the many years since we have had more than one argument about have you seen my grunt call only to see the end or string hanging out of his pocket. And then he going borderline bonkers cause he doesn't have his and needs mine.....lol Grunting, my favorite grunt call for the past 15+ yrs is a Knight & Hale EZ grunter. I have tried quite a few different brands and models over the yrs but I always go back to this one. It seems to not be as loud as most of the grunters out there but I control the sound and volume by blowing harder, softer, longer. A lot of the grunt tubes are trying to sound like older and more mature bucks, this in my mind is only calling in mature deer and haven't had as much success with these. If I sound like a younger buck then I should be able to attract younger and older bucks alike is my strategy. A young buck is not coming in to challenge the big boy but the big boy will definitely come into to a younger buck that he thinks may have a doe with him. The tending grunt (3 shot burst) has been the most successful for me, this works best pre rut, during the rut and shortly after. maybe I am extremely lucky but I have had heard numerous deer grunting over the past 25+ yrs with a lot of this occurring on public land. I copy the sounds I have heard over the yrs and give the the calls personality. We all have different voices and don't know that I have heard two deer sound exactly the same. I have called in numerous 1-1/2 yr olds, better than a dozen 2-1/2 yrs olds and several 3 & 4-1/2 yr olds with most of these deer going to the house with me. A grunt call during pre rut, the rut and early post rut is almost as important as my bullets or release to me. I call approx every 30 mins if I don't see deer in the immediate area, 95% of the time it is a tending grunt and the call goes away for until 30 mins later. I will call to bucks that I see in the distance if they are moving away from me. Be warned and READY when you call a buck in they can either sneak in as cagey as can be or come charging in like your pulling them on a rope, either way they have an uncanny way of knowing almost exactly where the noise came from. By no means by you using a grunt tube or any call technique does it equate to seeing a deer, there are a number of variables, wind, deer close enough to hear, type of call method, volume. I know I have never killed a big boy via a doe bleat, the can call is the best in my mind. I have brought in deer with the can. I have rattled in a few bucks as well and very exciting but also very rare in bringing them in. I do rattle pre rut and rut but usually I want the perfect situation to occur and bring a rattling bag with me isn't the the top of my list. I used shed antlers back in the day but now use a rattling bag. I f I really want to bang bang bang I slam the rattling bag into the tree to give it a realistic crack. I have grunted, rattled and bleated while watching deer on countless occasions to see the reaction and most times it has no effect on them, they are not bothered by it as long as you are closely imitating real deer sounds. I have never tried the snort wheeze or buck roar. As with any and all deer hunting the WIND is as important a tool as you are going to have. Calling to deer when the wind is wrong or not knowing where the deer should be coming from = no bueno. Deer can easily become educated to hunters calling too much or making odd unnatural sounds. Calling and getting a curious deer to come in to only spook when you clank your stand will educate that deer. Calling is no magic secret but another tool in a bag of tricks...I could go for days with different situations and experiences I have had but all ready to long winded.

There are many options out there for ladders, the ones you want are going to cost more cause they use more material. Plenty available, just gotta break out the checkbook and pay up to 2-3 times as the super basic models you talking about

These people are not sportsmen, period. Too many these days are on the liberal wagon and stuff like this hurts sportsmen. After taking a deer especially a nice buck you want to show it off but there are more and more areas that people are offended and appalled. I have for 10+ yrs take extra steps to make sure no one sees my harvest unless I want them to. It's a sad shame but the world we live in, back in the day the trunk would be open or tailgate down for all to see. I even go as far as making sure I don't have blood leaking out the bed on the bumper etc. I still want to show the deer off but only to those I hunt with or friends. One major factor that the anti 's & liberals don't seem to understand or grasp is that it is Sportsmen that are taking care of the environment. We are the reason that there are more opportunities and programs in place than ever before. It is Sportsmen donations and dollars that reciprocally fund these programs and operate game departments, studies, surveys etc, all for the betterment of the resource via game and habitat management. The anti's money goes to shutting us down and losing opportunities and habitat . The presidents of these organizations probably suck up the bulk of their funds in salaries and events. To see so called hunters disrespect the sport and the game really T's me off.

Great Stuff

I think the kid should get a medal, the administrators should really wake up. After the media has their way with them they will regret their actions

oh yeah, I used to set cams in the same areas yr after yr and they do get used to them, I would get better pics for the most part but they were honey holes. You could see the progression of the deer spooking @ the cam and over time not even paying it any attention. I loved my older moultries but they did make a Kachunk sound when they tripped.

after driving the lady doc crazy you might want to seek a different one, too funny

The coyotes made very quick work on that buck. Good thing they didn't get the buck he shot. I do not like yotes.