Not a great pic, but looks like he is about to make it outside the ears.
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2024 Trail Camera Thread
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I have to disagree. I'm doing this cell cam thing 4 years now, and just haven't seen the evidence they avoid the area if they see the cam. I've had multiple uncountable bucks look at the cam, then show up the very next day.
I'm sure there's always exceptions with some deer, but I mostly haven't seen it. There's too many downsides with image quality with no glow cameras imo. I feel my reveal pro has significant worse night images than the reveal X and 2.0s. Much less range, blurrier, grainier, and less detail. Another mature buck staring right at it. I encountered him in daylight at that cam 4 days later.
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I’ve been using trail cameras since 2007 and yes we’ll definitely have to disagree on that one, I have no doubt trail cameras spook deer to the point it alters their normal patterns, not all deer… obviously… I’ve also had the same buck back the next day on my cameras, multiple times, but it definitely messes with some, this I have no doubt!
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Man! The Bases on that thing!
meh too early to tell. Few years ago in August I had a deer on cam in velvet I had to scoop my jaw off the floor when I saw the picture. Once the velvet came off I couldnt believe how much mass he lost. Went from OMG to a pretty typical 2.5 year old
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My first cell camera came in two weeks ago and I put it up the day after I got it. It’s on public so I used an old helium to place it about 8-10 feet up so hopefully no one messes with it. First week or so not many pics except a doe here and there, until this morning and this guy shows up. It’s a nice marshy area and this is a small patch of higher ground surrounded by marsh.
Poor little guy got kicked out on the 11th so mom and dad could have a date night!
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My experience with cams....it takes about a week (sometimes much longer) for activity to go back to "normal" when you go in and mess with hangin a cam or checking it. Really taught me how much I probably ruin a spot after hunting it just one time haha. I just switched a cam out that had been dead for a month over a mineral lick. Get a cell pic of a decent buck 2 days later and he's been gone for weeks since. He was walkin with his nose down and lookin at the cam in each pic like "OH F NO MOTHA F'R, IM GONE!"
I'm assuming he was coming into that spot until he smelled me and saw a dif cam working/taking pics.
Where's the time stamp? Until I see it, I'm calling bs on it being recent...lol
I don’t blame you, I was shocked as well. And this is VA
That dude is super early. Great looking deer.
In all seriousness, I'd keep that under raps. He's got Booner potential(ish), being what looks like a 9pt.. Roughly 60 days + of grow time left with the potential to add at least an inch per day.