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I have 3 cams that are getting literally hundreds of pics ...non stop, late afternoon through early morning(daylight) same small buck and dozens of doe and fawn..Hey I'm losing the food here with the winds...apples are thinning and oaks won't last much longer.. The 8pt came up out of the swamp on the lower section of property...I did see one new rub ..but with all these doe why no buck? They are leaving their scent all over the place..They are coming in from all directions..I have rotated spots and zones to avoid over doing it and really, I haven't been out too many times considering how I normally hunt...have, as today, avoided bad winds....All  farmers corn is still standing no Ag beans closer than 3 miles..BTW  they wiped out all my standing in the garden...

Now remember, I could understand this if the doe were doing what they've done the last 2 years...but they are out in day light ,so far, and here in way bigger numbers.

Any thoughts? Headed out to finish pulling garden trellises and tilling ground for next season...

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I have a spot with clover/chicory in one plot, brassicas in another, as well as over a dozen mature apple trees.  Deer are in there every single day, sometimes all day.  6 does/fawns, a button buck & a spike.  Not a single picture of a legal buck.  I won't worry about it for another couple weeks.  It wasn't quite as bad last year, but similar.   Shot a decent 8 point with a sticker on October 27th.  It's just a waiting game, I hope.

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16 minutes ago, mowin said:

Wait till the rut gets closer. He'll change is patterns.  I'd still hurt the wind, and  keep changing stands. You never know when he might show.  Can't kill em from the living room.  

I agree 100% that you can’t kill them from the couch, but going and hunting when the deer are not moving and burning out your hunting grounds also is not wise. 

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well i noticed on my camera i have no good bucks if the temps is much above 50 degrees during day and all around deer movement goes way  down...and i was shocked this week i got two cameras on 90 acres my dad saw 3 small bucks and the way he described them i have no photos of them cameras have been out since at least july. and my  decent bucks ill get on camera for 3 or 4 days then nothing for 3 or 4 days... and i feel its alil early for the big guys to be paying  attention to does yet

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I like to keep in mind that until just a few years ago, today would have been the archery opener. Even then I rarely started hunting hard anywhere until the last week of October. The first 3 weeks of October are a transition time for bucks between summer and the rut. Trying to hunt that transition is usually an exercise in frustration, and spending three weeks doing it can cause very early burnout and a negative attitude.

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17 minutes ago, Biz-R-OWorld said:

9/15 should be opening day!

Actually Biz, 9/15 would probably work better because the bucks wouldn't quite be in transition mode yet, and they would still be working summer patterns, which are way easier to decipher than early rut patterns. Then again, they'd have velvety racks and relatively skinny necks which don't mount well.

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All great points guys...Though if the wind(NW) is right and with there being rain tonight...no getting up and leaving late tomorrow morning... The head lamp goes on and I take a 3/4mile walk down to the swamp stand. The last time I said I'm going to the swamp and shoot a buck ...I did...but I'm feeling a bit jinxy  today so I'll be happy with a doe...seeing I'll be home alone...lol

Seeing I had the DR out anyways I Dr'd a few short trails to 5 stands and 3 ground blinds up here around the garden/plot area and to the new ridge stand...not as good as the leaf blower but OK for now...Maybe Mondays weather will loosen some of these leafs...wind helped a little

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4 hours ago, rob-c said:

I agree 100% that you can’t kill them from the couch, but going and hunting when the deer are not moving and burning out your hunting grounds also is not wise. 

I agree 100%. That's why I said keep hunting with the wind, meaning don't hunt a stand if the winds wrong. That and keep changing stands as not to burn out one spot. 

 

Killed many nice bucks early in the season when deer we're supposedly not moving. 

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On 10/15/2017 at 1:36 PM, philoshop said:

Actually Biz, 9/15 would probably work better because the bucks wouldn't quite be in transition mode yet, and they would still be working summer patterns, which are way easier to decipher than early rut patterns. Then again, they'd have velvety racks and relatively skinny necks which don't mount well.

9/15 is when we start in NH but was unusually warm this year till end of Sept we were in high 70's to 80's

Oct still in 60's - 70's until yesterday we dropped to the 50's but back into 70's end of the week

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Same here but I usually at least see little guys..also really every year I have at least one basket 6 that finds me at every set, Not finds but shows up, like it's following me..I have over 40 different sets I can change to.I rarely get to them all each year.  This year with the corn still up and my planting manly for Turkey things. Have changed...That and Apple's ans acorns galore..

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