Ok, this one goes out to Tailgunner! I climbed this tree today using the 10TC method (Ten Toe Climbing). I found this little tree in a great spot to cover a creek crossing that is worn out with tracks. No gear necessary to climb it. I may have to give this spot a sit this fall.
I went out and pulled three cameras I had out. This reminded me why I don't fool with cameras much. All of them were way out. Most had been out all year. One required chest waders to get to. Three of the 4 had dead batteries. One ran its batteries down taking 2000 pictures of the same stem of grass that grew after I put the camera up. I got a few buck pictures off one spot in October. Such is fooling with cameras. This year, if I put them back out, it will be in September, and I'll let them soak in good spots. They were actually in good spots, they just went dead or filled up the card before the good part of the year got here.
I did put one out at a new spot I found yesterday. I'm hoping to get a picture of the buck that is working a scrape in very thick cover before he drops his horns. I'd like to see if he is alive (I'm betting he is with the giant fresh poos in the scrape) and I plan to pull that camera in about a month at most. My feeling is that this spot I found yesterday will be a great buck killing spot. Seems to be good doe activity and plenty of cover and rubs and scrapes and zero sign of an human activity.