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Seems to be a lot Giants this year. Maybe the wet spring?


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Sure has. That could be the answer. Between my buddy who’s out in Kansas right now, my old boss and a few other buddy’s, there’s supposedly a boat load of big deer running around out there this year. Must be a good year all across the Midwest.

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41 minutes ago, Biz-R-OWorld said:

 


Seems to be a lot Giants this year. Maybe the wet spring?


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It could be. It could also be with the invention of cell cams and how they are becoming more popular and widely used. Think about it. Now you can get real time pics without have to go in once a week and pull cards and spreading your scent. It makes it easier to pattern big deer without alerting them that they are being hunted. Compare it to reading a week old newspaper or going on the internet and reading about a news story as it happens. 

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3 minutes ago, NonTypical said:

It could be. It could also be with the invention of cell cams and how they are becoming more popular and widely used. Think about it. Now you can get real time pics without have to go in once a week and pull cards and spreading your scent. It makes it easier to pattern big deer without alerting them that they are being hunted. Compare it to reading a week old newspaper or going on the internet and reading about a news story as it happens. 

Market penetration on cell cams is likely to be 1-2% or less right now. Long way to go toward major impact.

Wet springs have a direct correlation to larger antler growth. I forget where that data lies, but it's been proven in quite a few scholastic studies.

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Finally back in my home stand...no rain but the wind is blowing backwards!  My stand overlooks part of my 3D foam course...do you think my zombi deer is helping or hurting...debating with myself if I should move it...or find a head for it...(horns or no horns)...thoughts?

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4 hours ago, biggamefish said:

Good morning everyone!  Hey you guessed it, iiiiiiiittttttttttsssssss raining out side.AGAIN!!!!!

This is really getting crazy. A couple food plots are now under water. A small feeder stream that we use to skirt a swamp, is now very wide and waist deep. Have two prime rut stands, that border a swamp that are surrounded by water, no way to get near them. Tractor and ATV roads are all a quagmire and mostly impassable, without creating deep ruts. Even hay fields have standing water in them, that look like ponds. All the ridge slopes are muddy and slick. 

Have never seen this place like this, at this time of year. Almost like a rainey warm up, in early spring, with a deep snowpack.

All this, WILL effect the deer movement on our property to some extent. They can't bed in the swamps because there are very few, if any, high spots left to bed on. So they are pushed out to the next available thick stuff, to bed in no doubt. But we are not set up for that. Now it's up to us, to figure out all the changes in deer movement. Just an added challenge, to an already challenging season so far. 

Success will be all the more sweet when it happens this year!  We are up to the challenge. 

 

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Just now, grampy said:

This is really getting crazy. A couple food plots are now under water. A small feeder stream that we use to skirt a swamp, is now very wide and waist deep. Have two prime rut stands, that border a swamp that are surrounded by water, no way to get near them. Tractor and ATV roads are all a quagmire and mostly impassable, without creating deep ruts. Even hay fields have standing water in them, that look like ponds. All the ridge slopes are muddy and slick. 

Have never seen this place like this, at this time of year. Almost like a rainey warm up, in early spring, with a deep snowpack.

All this, WILL effect the deer movement on our property to some extent. They can't bed in the swamps because there are very few, if any, high spots left to bed on. So they are pushed out to the next available thick stuff, to bed in no doubt. But we are not set up for that. Now it's up to us, to figure out all the changes in deer movement. Just an added challenge, to an already challenging season so far. 

Success will be all the more sweet when it happens this year!  We are up to the challenge. 

 

i think i have this same issue on our lease.  It is already a wetlands and with all this water its now a frogpond.  Its really thick and a great bedding area but is more of a swimming area now.  Tough year.  

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23 minutes ago, dinorocks said:

Finally back in my home stand...no rain but the wind is blowing backwards!  My stand overlooks part of my 3D foam course...do you think my zombi deer is helping or hurting...debating with myself if I should move it...or find a head for it...(horns or no horns)...thoughts?

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My guess would be every deer may react differently to a headless deer/or even a decoy with a head. As would one with antlers, one buck may want to fight it but no horns and one might want to breed it

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