G-Man

heavy trails usually = does. buck trail will be faint and down wind of doe(heavy trail) setting up on a heavy trail will let you see deer but good bucks will be behind you down wind..... especially during bow

its still warm, deer are getting their winter coats, much more comfortable to move at night. you can do a few things ..track the trail in direction deer is coming from and going to and rehang camera, find a food source along trail and move camera there. deer are either sleeping, eating or moving between those two areas, getting close to either will give you different times. I'd stay away from scents right now , maybe a dripper in a month or so. If you see him there at night he will be there during the day sooner or later.

need more info, funnels are a good starting point, but cover type is a great point to hunt as well, hunt the down wind side of your thick cover where it meets more open timber. If this is in your funnel areas even better. Corn can be great as cover and as a funnel,deer will cruise edges of cornfields ( but will it be standing or cut) bigger bucks look for out of the way places.. the two wooded/brushy points that jut out into the corn( probably some kind of drainage/ravine (need topo as well) might be a great spot for a more mature deer. keep in mind you may not see as many deer here but you may see a whopper. I would move your stand from the field edge in the lower rt hand h field to the opposite side of the wood lot in the edge of the cornfield especially if you saywind comes from the south or even south west assumiing the top of you photo is north. Using the wind you want your scent to blow into the areas that deer should not be coming from, open fields, across pond/stream. the two funnel areas are large and may not be coverable with a bow. there are smaller funnels between the corn fields and hay fields , do not be afraid to get on the ground and hunt. It's better to have a stand/blind in the right spot to get a deer that you might see, than to have a stand where you can see deer that you might get..

yep use as a tool to see whats around, not pattern. if you crawl into some thick nasty spot to put a cam up yes you may get a huge buck on cam but chances are he's not there anymore due to oscent you left. put on open feeding areas/main trails where human disturbance is more common. You may only get 1 pic of a good one but a greater chance you didn't scare him out of the area.

The only time you have to use venison up by august is if you add pork to it..pork doesn't freeze..so it is always decomposing or going rancid if you will. pure venison if packaged properly will last more than a year. its one reason i use beef talow in my ground instead of pork.

spike, 3point, and 4 point (will show better after velvet sheds). The wildgame cameras are ok starter cameras. for better detail/clarity you get what you pay for trophycams,stealth,bushnell, cuddieback for example. higher resolution and shutter speeds keep the blur from happening.

OK, there are a lot of "good" hunters out there. the question is if your consistantly sucessful what is the key to your sucess? Mine is definatly time spent afield. I know a lot of better shots than myself, more patient people who can sit all day in any weather. But give me a week and i will get my deer every time. A lot of guys and girls i know that don't see/ get their deer only hunt 2-5 days a season, and they are the loudest to complain there are no deer. Hunters i know that get their deer every year or multiple deer seem to hunt for weeks using up vacation and personal days from work. Same goes for the professional hunters on tv. they hunt every day for months to get 4 or 5 deer for their shows. What do you think?

i always used fixed (steel force) but went to a rage 2 blade 3 years ago as i like the slip cam action, resulting in no problems on a hard angle shot. Shot a doe at about a 70degree angle and it slit a 12in entrance wound. best mechanical i've shot. though there are more out there now with a slip cam action as well. I would stay away from flip or punch open mechanicals.

I liked the video where the one scorers shows how he determined it to be a seperate point. Glad they are looking at it again.... now about the rompola buck...

depends on the gun, my 50 cal long rifle is a patched round ball 80 grains, same as my 54 great planes rifle with 95 grains. 350 grain ftp 45.cal in sabot for my h&r huntsman 90 grains .250 ft 45.cal with sabot in my encore with 115 grains.

While walking out in new brunswick, i heard some snapping limbs in the direction of the bear bait i just left and figured it was a bear. i stopped and stood for a second and 2 huge moose stepped out in front of me at 15 feet without making a sound! scared the crap out of me.. i'm only 5'6 these things looked to be 9' tall.. they looked at me and then crossed the trail.....

I love finding a tree with apples in a bad apple year. you will see every deer in the woods there. In a good apple year i look for a different food source as there are acres and acres of apples where i hunt and if they all have fruit you can't pattern anything. This year is bad apple and bad maast year in general by me. But with oct 1 opener i think i have a honey hole of a sm group of american chestnuts that seem to drop their nuts last week of sept/1 week of october every year, could never hunt deer then but the squirel hunts there over the years under them let me see a ton of deer waiting for the nuts to drop. this year the deer will be in trouble

I don't have rules on the size of bucks that can be taken off my property, but e-mail all the guys that hunt pics of thedeer the sm and large bucks, they all seem to hold off waitong for a better buck that they have seen a picture of. all done Without antler restrictions.... and they are now taking more mature deer because of it.

I have a scrape that is active all year, its a community scrape and had been in use for 18 plus years. it gets really worked over during the rut, but will have a few swipes taken out of it year round. its also my best camera location, but is visited only at night 95% of the time

hope they stick around , get em oct 1 still in summer pattern before they shift!!

unfortunately i belive it happens a lot more than i/we would like to admit. how many trail cam pics are posted over bait? Even though your related i'd report her hunting to the proper authorities, maybe it would teach her a lesson. seems eveyone i know has a neighbor that puts out salt or bait. but no one turns them in. I have a neighbor who still won't talk to me after 15 years for turning him in after i warned him i would. not really a big loss imo. i still have great hunting done perfectly legal even though i get reported every year by him because we kill a lot of deer (all legal and tagged of course), got to know the local game warden very well and his "yearly visit" is like welcoming another good friend to camp.

this is by far the best pic i've seen off trail cam this year..

got my first hard horn on cam. only one though rest still in velvet

Got my first hard horn this year, still all the rest in velvet this little guy must be amped up...

hang it no problem, may want rubber coated hook to keep annoization of cams from scratching

The dec ruled out reintroduction in 2006 as farmers would be suffering massive crop damage, they are grazers not browsers like whitetail. i'd rather pay the farmers for damage and re introduce them to native range. and wny has a huge paleontolocical history with most bone remains found in the elma/ east aurora area.

Dan fitzgerald use to and i believe still does sell vanilla killa deer scent( vinilla extract) his early videos are full of kills using this stuff.

young coyote 25 lbs max prolly young of year out on one of its first hunts, tail curves up at tip. fox tails to not do this.

i plant for added nutrition the 1st winter i bought my place was very hard and i found 4 deer dead from starvation in the spring.. my deer weights increased 15-25 lbs per age class doe and buck sine i started planting. the added benifit is they do attract deer if other factors are present or improved, cover and a secure area that is free from trespass and disturbance beging the top two. I average 16 deer per year off my property (usually 10 doe) and have taken as many as 21 several times since foodplots vs 3-5 before plots and will top the 300 deer total since i bought it in 93. its a lot of work but it pays off as my friends and family love to hunt and love the meat.

proximity and bullet placement is key, size 30 cal is 30 cal.... be interesting to know how much game is taken wit a .22 lr.