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Off topic, but what sensitivty setting did you use on the 2013 WNYB?

We used POR15 on jeep rebuilds and restores. Good stuff.

2006 Ford Escape 4 banger 2006 Dodge Dakota Quad Cab 4x4 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid The truck has been relegated to use only when hunting or for trukc related tasks. She's starting to rust pretty bad at the rear wheel wells. I could care less as long as it doesn't cost me more in mechanical repairs. Been driving the 06 Escape and the wife drives the hybrid. Really like them for daily driving and the mileage is decent.

I'm get nervous opening the door to my house each time with these rains. Thankfully we haven't come close to what we got the day my place took on water.

Sure, but it's much more likely when you have mature bucks moving on your ground with regularity in daylight outside of the rut. What's that take? Bedding and cover. Seems to me pics like that indicate you don't have the bedding. Should you be getting daylight pics and pics right at the cusp of light and darkness...that should make you excited. Getting pics of bucks in the middle of the night no longer get me as excited as I once thought. I can't recount the number of bucks I have pics of in the middle of the night that I never laid eyes on while in the stand or with cams in daylight. They're not ghosts that can't be killed...just that they can't be killed on your ground. If the buck isn't there until midnight...he ain't showing up at the food source at last light. He's on someone else's ground at last light.

Woodbury gets hammered during the first three weeks of November. Lots of people I know who have went there all report shock the first time they set foot there. Now, that said, they did find some places to get away from others, but in large by the time they started to get dialed in, it was 4-5 days into the hunt. AEP lands I have heard can offer some places to get off the path. I always seem to find the rut in the portions I now hunt in Ohio to be about 5-7 days behind wNY activity wise.

Take a hard look. If the bucks are not there in daylight with regularity on your ground, you cannot kill them. I spent years on ground in such a situation, banging my head against the wall.

No complaint for a June pic, that's for darn sure. Hopefully he puts on some mass. If he does, that'll get your heart pumping.

Affect and manage are two different things, completely. I believe you are pretty young. While, I'm not THAT old, I have a few years of cutting my teeth. The best piece of advice I can offer is to stop focusing on other hunters and learn how to find and hunt mature bucks and make that your top priority. So many people go astray in that aspect of hunting. While NY may not be IL, IA, KS, etc., there are good bucks to be had. I offer that advice as that seems to be your desire in hunting. Spending time and effort worrying about others before you can honestly hunt mature bucks just puts you behind the 8-ball. I did that when I was younger to a degree and I have no doubt my walls would be more full than they are now had I known better. BTW, those are some nice deer. I like the night image of the one with the leafs getting IR bounceback. Just a cool framed photo. Only major issue I see is the time of all but the daylight one. Seeing deer at 11 at night doesn't make me all that excited unless you own a sq. mile of land.

I hunt Ohio each year. Those counties, while noted as top producers, are going to be a pain to hunt because they get pretty heavy pressure. If you take Ohio, draw a line from the SW to the NE, hunting anything on the south/right side will be productive as long as you can avoid the pressure. Here's my problem with your scenario. You are late into the game for this year to do any useful scouting. That means you needs to scout with a stand on your back or scout for a significant portion of your trip. That really forces you into large pieces of public land - such as Wayne National Forest. There, you can eventually find some distance from bowhunters. If you had time to go and visit in March, you could really hit multiple small sections within your "home base" (hotel/camp). Doing that this fall with no prior scouting puts you at risk of hitting that small spot or two and finding it covered with hunters. With bare ground, you can see both deer and hunter sign.

Is 3.5 mature to you? Tough call in my book. While I reference 3.5s as being the line in the sand for NY, I wouldn't consider a 3.5 fully mature. One thing that I am not a fan of, is the term "manage the herd," Quite simply, in a free range scenario, you are not managing the herd. You can manage the land, you can manage the trigger pullers, but you can never "manage the herd."

My crabapple in the backyard has the lowest branches almost touching the ground they are so loaded. I usually keep the tree is working order, but not necessarily pristine shape...but this is crazy.

MP is a bit of a misleading feature. 5MP in one cam may be better than a 8MP in another. If you don't want to spend a ton of money ($500)...then look at MP6 Black, Red 40, or Black 60. I strongly support legit black flash.

For commerical cams... Reconyx. If you are willing to slap $500 to a tree, well, that's your answer. I don't want to do that. For all else, Covert offers the best bang for the buck. Bushnell and Moultrie are decent players, but in large Covert has the better product AND support. End of story. *Edit. I re-read your post. Define "quality" in your initial statement. Reconyx pics are good, but not great.

It looks more like a lease. So, you need to find out who is on the lease, too. If there are many people for that acreage, then poo-poo it. I will say that IL leases with coolers, and a house, can range between 2 and 5-6k per person based on info I have seen. Problem I see, is that I suspect someone in the middle is working a deal. This happens a bunch in land leases out of state. One person leads the lease and thenc harges more to A: make money and hunt or B: hold the lease and hunt it for free. Honestly, with 5k, I could find a nice lease exclusively and have significant resources to last me all season. Honestly, with 5k, I'd probably have two leases in two bordering states and be able to travel, lodge, feed, and gas the truck with the remaning money. I can hunt private ground via handshake persmission in Ohio for about $6-700 when all said and done. That includes tags, hotel, et al.

Plus the aplha stand is used with one strap and you cn cam lock it. Its very stable and fast that way. Again...I really use only on public or out of state. But I have used it a few times when I need to make a move sah if my stand was 40 or 50 yds from where it needed to be. It is very quiet though. Just not super comfy.

Lw is pretty quick. About the same as a climber. Its all relevant to practice though. First few times are brutally slow but doing it a couple times a week in the summer will speed up the process.

Mapping Trophy Bucks is good The Eberhart series are also solid Reading those books I find that you need to pull what fits your style from them.

Look for a website that shows At & T tower locations.

Maybe it'll help illustrate. I have a verizon phone. The cam has At&t SIM and go phone (pay as you go) plan...it sends pics to my phone without issue. It'll do the same to your Sprint phone. I also have pics sent to my email. So it takes a pic, sends a text and an email to me. It's not the cell phone that matters, it's the cam's SIM card that needs GSM (at&t or tmoble) platform to work. Verizon and Sprint run on a more complicated network and that costs more to "hack" into to use their cell service on the actual cam. It is also not as common worldwide as GSM (most other countries use GSM).

2013s retail at $350. NIB 2012s are pretty much a white elephant as they have been bought up.

It'll send a pic to any cell phone or email address (up to four of a combination of phones/emails). You can be in California and the cam in NY and get a pic. The only requirement is that you have cell service at the location of the cam. What you need is a SIM card from At&t (better then tmobile imo) and a go phone plan - which is text only. $5 for 200 pics, $10 for 1,000, or $20 for unlimited. That's a monthly fee but there's no contract so you are not tied in. It is NOT complicated at all to do. All you need to do is be able to follow directions. I set mine up the first time with no qualms...not even a hiccup.

It does work...I've posted tens if not hundreds of pics from it on this site alone (one that I have in the field).

You can see pics of what the Code Black looks like on nearly every major retailer and Covert's Web site. At work at the moment.

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