Public land buck!
- Thread starter Kentucky_Sheddar
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ManofManyStangs
8 pointer
- May 4, 2009
- 938
Going to be a good one. Where my best deer are at I had to pull cameras, little young punks found them and started messing with them.
Kentucky_Sheddar
Fawn
Ahh hate that. Might give it a while and be able to put back up before season.
AndySchulte
6 pointer
Yep nothing worse than getting a camera yanked. I had one taken last year about a mile walk in. There are going to be some POS on public land unfortunately.
luckychucky
6 pointer
I was on private land years ago and had 2 cameras and 2 corn piles. I have 2 kids. I basically 1 time a week would take my family and drive to the farm and check the cameras and I would tell each child that a specific camera was there’s. So after a few weeks, we went to check the cameras and 1 camera was gone. Then I found a coon laying in the farm road just past the camera spot. Then I went to the other camera. It was still there. On that camera was coon dogs. So what I did is move the location of the stolen camera just around the hill to conceal the location but knowing a dog could find it. So needless to say it worked. I didn’t have anymore problems that year and it was an isolated event. Also, I’ll say by me moving that corn pile also I started getting buck pictures earlier and sometimes with shooting light. It was a learning curve back then. Fast forward to today, I hunt public only. I have 8 cameras I run. I dont bait but also you can’t on public. I don’t get a lot of pictures, but I enjoy it better. I just make sure when I put a camera out it’s not a normal spot where those scouting are just going to walk straight into it. I don’t have camera issues and I enjoy scouting for new locations. So maybe put your camera back in there but hide it. You can always put bark or brush around the cameras too.
ManofManyStangs
8 pointer
- May 4, 2009
- 938
Where the cameras are is private land. I am the only person that has permission to hunt it. I told the landowner about a tree stand being on his property and them throwing trash everywhere, I have even picked it up myself. Property owner is in his 70's no way he's going up that hill. I may put them back out, unsure I went and talked to the kids that stole my seat and blind of course 100% denial.
hollandhunter
12 pointer
Stay out of his home area as much as possible untill season starts. An you will have a good chance of killing him. I say that knowing dang well i have hunted for a big velvet buck for years and never killed one in velvet. But looking back my lack of success was mostly me being too picky and self induced mistakes. I have several on the wall over 140. Not a single velvet buck though. Good luck with him.
120+
12 pointer
He's looking really good early.
