Lack of Bucks on Camera??

[Lawdwaz]

I checked three cameras yesteday, all three were low on buck pics. I let the them soak two weeks and to come up basically empty is odd. Plenty of doe & fawn, coyote, fox, skunk, coon, squirrel etc. but only a couple little bucks.

No reason (gulp) to panic yet. Some logging very close to one set could be effecting that spot, a serious lack of apples is killing another setup. The last spot, I can't formulate a reason for the lack-o-bucks.

No biggie, I'll probably crack a hog anyway. <grin>

[WNY Bowhunter]

I'm getting a bunch of little bucks. I had several on yesterday's card pulls that I've never seen before.

[growalot]

I almost never get any buck on cams but once the bachelor groups start breaking up and they expand their territories I see all kinds of buck...but as you have seen on posted pics...the "girls" hang out on our place and we have a few staging areas that are used every single year...

Makes it more exciting...for I never know what is going to show up....

Edited September 23, 2012 by growalot

[landtracdeerhunter]

Yep, same here. No bucks as usual. Saw one other eve bust into a field, does and fawns, cleared it in a blink. No part of that bad boy, lol.

Edited September 23, 2012 by landtracdeerhunter

[growalot]

This cool weather has them moving big time...the bear as well...Went to sons last night and it was stop and go the whole way with a bear running down a culvert ditch at one point....made me a bit leery getting out of the van in the dark at his place....they've come home a few times to find a momma and cubs just sitting in the drive way...There are a lot of doe with triplets out there this year.....

[wheelieman]

went from 200 pics a week to a steady decline too about 25 or 30 still getting some bucks on cam. but not as many as when the bachelors were using the property, but it happens every year and then i start seeing bucks i didnt have on cam,

[downtownbrown]

been a tough month for trail cams i had several shooter on trail cams last year not much this year. I hate to say have taken way to many coyote pics this year, not what one wants to see. I do believe this has affected the deer movement in my hunting area. I will shoot them if given a chance. Strange think this morning 3 small fawns with spots feeding on their mother, I am a little shocked to see such small deer this time of year.

[SplitG2]

my mature buck pictures are down again for a second year. Not sure why? All things have stayed constant.

[WNY Bowhunter]

my mature buck pictures are down again for a second year. Not sure why? All things have stayed constant.

I know how you feel. Overall, I had a pretty poor summer trail cam season. I did get some good pics of some good bucks, but I saw far more with the binos/spotlight than what I had show up on my SD cards...

[chiefbkt]

Same here, haven't really had anything decent since August. A lot of nice young bucks. Hope the big guys are just waiting for the season to start.

[WNYBuckHunter]

Yep, no real bigguns for me yet this year either. Lots of little guys and a nice 2 1/2 and a 3 1/2, thats about it. Saw some bucks out in the field near my cam yesterday. Gonna try to get out and check it tonight.

[newbreed]

i got no problem getting bucks on camera, find a scrape put yourt camera there.

[WNYBuckHunter]

scrapes in the summer? Around me the scrapes are barely opening up at this point. I have plenty of deer on camera, just not any of the big boys yet.