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On private you can set everything up in your favor like entry, exits and strand sites. You can put a 500 pound spin cast feeder set to fed anytime you want it to go off and you can set a half dozen cell cameras around to keep track of the bucks movements without having to go in and pressure the area. They can keep everyone else out. Zero hunting pressure. They can pattern the bucks and only go in under optimal conditions. Its no guarantee but it sure stacks the deck in their favor.Legal and ethical are two very different constructs. I use cell cams and they haven’t helped me a bit this season. Last year was the first year I ever used them and the only thing I can honestly say they did to help me was keeping
Me out there when I was ready to cave. The two giants that walked past the cams within an hour of each other (only 85 yards upwind of me) I never saw once. The buck I shot was totally different and although I did have him on both my standard and cell cams last year, he wasn’t on any of my cell cams the day In arrowed him.
Which leads me to my next ancillary question. There are some guys around here where I hunt who seem to get hammers every year. I don’t understand how they do it or what they’re doing but I think that really cracking that code involves some level of ethical and legal malaise. It’s always on private and I just can’t think these people are hat much better hunters than me and my buddy are. We’ve gotten our fair share of nice bucks over the years but I just don’t get it sometimes. I’m done whining now LOL!
Hunting public land has none of that. Killing a good buck on public land is worth 100 hot house bucks, in my opinion.