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2025 Trail Camera Thread

woodsdog2

woodsdog2

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Well this one made it. My intuition was correct but he didn’t come out until 2hours after legal shooting. I was set up about 75 yards north of this ridge spur this evening!!! He’ll be a definite shooter this year.
 

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This one was a day later, in the same spot. I may have to plan a sit there next year around those dates...
Overall, I was kind of disappointed in what I got on my cameras that had been out since the second week of November. I had one that was in the middle of an area full of rubs, scrapes, and trails. All I got in two months plus was five pictures of various climbing critters.

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Guess I know what’s on his noggin for sure now. lol
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I had a ton of up and coming buck this year on camera. I knew of 4 shooters. All four were killed this season. I have yet to get any scouting or cameras out as our season ended today. Over the coming weeks I'll be scouting and getting cameras hung. We've had one heck of a "normal" January, so I'm hoping alot of thw sign will be preserved from thw snow. I did get a few random nomad shooters that rolled through but never showed up again and I never sae them on the hoof.
 
Got some cams out for a quota archery hunt I have coming up in a couple weeks. I'd be tickled to get a peek at this guy in the bed of my truck.

Central Florida, so they don't grow the same as elsewhere. Occasionally a real stud pops up.
 

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Slabzilla73 said:
Cams up 7 ft so just odd it caught its attention like that.
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I’ve been studying this buck for a few years now. One day I had a realization that there was a serious funnel I had overlooked, and that there was an incredible way I could cheat the thermals in this spot. So the next day I went to this location mid afternoon and got 20’ up a tree in this steep ravine. While there I hung this camera…

Well the evening hunt went by and no deer came along. I climbed down in the dark and was packing up when I heard the sound of a big heavy deer trudging strait up the ravine toward me. I was pretty sure it was the big buck I’d been waiting for. When he sounded about 20 yards away I knew he was headed strait for me. So I attempted to growl like a coyote and push the deer off before he realized I was a human. He paused for a minute and waited in silence. Then he continued moving right to me. At about 10 yards I cleared my throat. He started blowing, and blowing and blowing. He bounded 10 yards down the hill and continued blowing for a minute or two. Eventually he crashed his way down the mountain, blowing the whole time he ran.

I was heartbroken. I knew he was very unlikely to pass through that funnel for a long time. The following hunting season I went back to that tree around the same time for an evening sit. While there I checked the camera. Lo and behold that buck returned to the funnel for the first time, 6 months after our encounter. Initially the photos show him looking directly at the spot onwas
Standing during our encounter. Immediately his attention shift up to where the camera was. He spotted the camera 20’ up from 20 yards away. He stood there and stared at my trail camera motionless for a half an hour. I’ve never got another picture of him there in that spot again.


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