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Trail camera ban

Kansas bans Trail Cameras on Public and Walk In land ?

Yea lots of states will do that. Won’t affect private land . Yet.

Yea lots of states will do that. Won’t affect private land . Yet.

I only use them to see how the bucks have grown since the last year, sure beats setting out there waiting to take pictures with a camera. It's not like I throw them at the deer. I plant plots and that attracts the deer. Seldomly ever enter the woods after June except to hang my stands and they are in the same trees year after year.

yea will be hard to police. I love the trail cams. I have never killed a nice buck I saw on one however. LOL

Cell cams can be used to kill deer much easier than regular trail cams

I don’t know if cell cams will be a major problem here in WV - heck even here in Berkeley County up on Sleepy Creek you would have a problem with getting the service needed.

I don't see how getting a pic and trigger some one to grab their bow, tip-toe 500 yards without getting busted, climb your tree and take that one big ole buck you saw an hour ago on your phone. About the best you can hope for is to get in, set up in hopes he lingers around the same area locked onto a doe who later happens by with him in tow. Maybe you can get lucky enough if your hunting agriculture land, but not going to happen very often if you hunt big wood. I learned a long time ago, ag-land is much easier when you bow hunt. Otherwise you just set there in hopes of seeing a couple, meanwhile alerting every deer downwind of you. Hunt that stand more than twice in maybe 2 weeks and you just educated half or more of the deer. Just my opinion. When I hunted big wood, I knew my best chance of taking a nice buck was the first day I hunted it, but it takes a lot of discipline.

You can use a trail camera without cell service. You would have to go check those the old fashioned way.

Some places on public land out west they have county 30-40 different cameras on elk watering holes. Imagine how educated those elk are with all those hunters coming in to check their cameras. I won’t use one unless it’s cellular for that reason. Going in to check your camera just educates the deer.

Some places on public land out west they have county 30-40 different cameras on elk watering holes. Imagine how educated those elk are with all those hunters coming in to check their cameras. I won’t use one unless it’s cellular for that reason. Going in to check your camera just educates the deer.

Deer, especially early season are pattern able. If one come by an area 2 days in a row at a certain time unless something happens it’s probably going to be there the 3rd day too

When I go out to the mid-west, I set up 4 stands (2 in one site for different wind), I place a camera at each site and check it only when I return to hunt it the next time. I pull my card and view it while sitting in the tree, it just tells me when a mature deer came by during daylight hours. If so, I'll sit longer than usual, sometimes all day if need be. So the only use I get out of it is to tell me it's time to start hunting the whole day. I don't waste my time on all day sits until I get those daylight pics.

So right Nyati, but add to it providing the winds a favorable to sit there. Last year the rut hit lat in KA. The last evening I had an opportunity to take an upper 140 buck. He didn't show the next morning and I had to leave by noon. Got back in my stand in WV the first Saturday 4 days later. Rattled up a really nice tall 8 but couldn't get him to stop. While I rattled trying to get him to turn around, a nice 11 came in across my food plot and stopped 24 yards away. I took him, but that evening rattled up two more shooters. Since I took my buck, I just watched them glide away.

Last 3 bucks I’ve killed on farm I waited and watched till they showed themselves in daylight, next day I went out and killed them. All bow kills. Fresh unhunted stands not spreading scent around stand until time to go in for the kill

2022

2019

Maybe 2016 or 17 ?

All killed by staying out of woods until they showed themselves in daylight then got on them the next day .

Some might not like it but I can go sit in a stand any day of the year to enjoy nature. I’m targeting and trying to kill 3.5-4.5 yr old bucks and they don’t give u many if any mistakes. If there’s a year I don’t find one then I’ll just wait till I do.

Since 2015 wife and I have killed 5-6 bucks and there have been 59 does killed. Averaging about 1 buck per 10 does killed.

Nice deer Nyati. I live in Monroe county and we have about 30 to 40 percent ag-land, mostly private. I tried to hunt within the woods the first year I owned the property, spooked lots of deer. That's when I just started hunting the edges only so that I could get in and out and hunt with the wind blowing to the center of our pasture. After years of running the cameras I noticed all those nice bucks eventually show up checking and running the does. I also noticed anywhere from last week of October till early November, there will be a period all those does will start congregating up to 200 yards out in the pasture. My cam pics proved to me they were being badgered my countless bucks day and night. Putting 2 and 2 together, I realized they were keeping there distance from those pestering bucks. That usually goes on for a week or two then they disappear. I believe that is because the does now are in heat. During that time, out in the pasture I mainly see yearlings only. Although I don't see many mature deer at that time, it marks the time I need to sit longer waiting for a doe to drag one of those mature bucks or a cruiser by my stand sight. I run about 6 stands so that I can cover all wind directions. If the wind swirls, I get the heck out or just don't go in at all.

Or I could just be crazy as a loon. Anyway, those cameras are instrumental in fitting the puzzle pieces together.

Nice deer guys

Nice deer guys I hunt the edges too for the same reasons

koog, it’s been my experience too that does are so pestered by the first day of November, they change their feeding habits in open country. They literally don’t come out in the open like they did before. This persists until the third or so week in November. Which by that point, the does are getting bred up quickly.

I also believe Halloween and the immediate two- three days prior and after is the best chance to kill a big buck checking feeding areas. That and the week of thanksgiving in a bow only county are money.

I agree with a lot of what you guys are saying, but I hunt funnels and never the same one 2 days in a row. That is how I kill most of the deer that I never had a picture of.

Agree Jack, I too hunt pinch points when I go to Kansas. There the woods are very limited but you can pick you pinch points and pick your best entry/exit routes. But here in WV, I can't hunt the woods well because of too many deer and too many trails consequently I get busted too often. So I just hunt my plots depending on the wind. I usually take a doe within a couple days, don't hunt a lot after that until late October. If the acorns are good I may sneak into that oak grove a couple times.

My problem is I hunt too much and I guess educate the deer. I can't stand sitting at home. No deer has ever come through my living room. Although Jimmy gets the turkeys pretty close. LOL

It is hard to not go when you have the time. Maybe you need another wife to keep you busy. I've only got one and she manages to do that.

One is enough that you lol

One is enough that you lol

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