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Re: Game Camera? [Re: Auctioneer1] #5952140 09/29/15 02:00 PM
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And again depends on where your at and a lot of other things. If its working for you and it looks like it is keep it up! But this dousnt change the fact most big bucks at feeders at night equate into kills.

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and yet there are still being pics posted to the contrary. Those pesky pictures.
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And again depends on where your at and a lot of other things. If its working for you and it looks like it is keep it up! But this dousnt change the fact most big bucks at feeders at night equate into kills.


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Re: Game Camera? [Re: Auctioneer1] #5952189 09/29/15 02:17 PM
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I dont know what your getting at. Most agree on here they feel same as i do about most night camera flash. Most here admit unless you own giant tracts of lightly hunted deer land,and certain areas like south Tx and high fence petting zoos. Not to mention having years upon years of raising deer up on feeders. Im just saying most of us dont have these options. Then dude shows pics of big east tx bucks at night at feeder(no suprise ) then shows kill pics. I dont know if he shot those deer under a feeder or ran over them with a truck. Dont know dont care.



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Re: Game Camera? [Re: Auctioneer1] #5952206 09/29/15 02:23 PM
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I think 2 were hit by a truck and one was beaten to death with a bow.

Re: Game Camera? [Re: Auctioneer1] #5952235 09/29/15 02:34 PM
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Its just funny only night pics of bucks. Then just happen to be there when it showed in daylight? Why not a bunch of daylight pics then It would be easier to believe. Just sayin. Where you hunt maybe. Wher I have hunted deer last 40 years not gunna happen very often.



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Re: Game Camera? [Re: Auctioneer1] #5952247 09/29/15 02:40 PM
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Flash does not scare deer off. If it did then lightening would have them scared out of their wits. I set a Camtrakker 35mm TC tied on a feeder leg in front of my house in the late 90's I would have 10-20 deer at the feeder every evening.(I had only lived there for 2 yrs and it was 25 acres). The actual sight of the camera hanging on the leg of the feeder scared the deer more than the flash. The first does were regulars and they stood back and surveyed the TC hanging on the leg. Those old cameras made a lot of shutter noise and noise with advance of the film for the next picture. That spooked more deer than any flash. I used to make a dummy camera decoy out of a block out of wood to hang on all feeder or trail locations I would put a camera on. That helped tremendously. Nowdays the IR red glow will get the deer's attention but the change around the feeder/trough/etc with something new hanging there that was not there yesterday is causing more issues. All IR cameras make an audible ping that can be heard also.


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Re: Game Camera? [Re: Auctioneer1] #5952264 09/29/15 02:47 PM
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Well I admit im only not using camera at night(tape over red light) just in case. Cant say I know for sure it scares them but seems to. Your probably right. But pics at night have never helped me anyways. Now on the subject of mature bucks killed under feeder vs trails or down wind of feeder. Thats a different story. Where i hunt its a fact you are better off hunting trail rather than feeder.



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Originally Posted By: Kenny Powers
I dont know what your getting at. Most agree on here they feel same as i do about most night camera flash. Most here admit unless you own giant tracts of lightly hunted deer land,and certain areas like south Tx and high fence petting zoos. Not to mention having years upon years of raising deer up on feeders. Im just saying most of us dont have these options. Then dude shows pics of big east tx bucks at night at feeder(no suprise ) then shows kill pics. I dont know if he shot those deer under a feeder or ran over them with a truck. Dont know dont care.

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that's on 80acres^ feeder was put up the year before

Re: Game Camera? [Re: Kenny Powers] #5952290 09/29/15 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted By: Kenny Powers
Its just funny only night pics of bucks. Then just happen to be there when it showed in daylight? Why not a bunch of daylight pics then It would be easier to believe. Just sayin. Where you hunt maybe. Wher I have hunted deer last 40 years not gunna happen very often.

I bought this place 2.5 yrs before these pictures. It is only 234 acres LF eastern South Texas, more coastal prairies.
This pic is early Aug of the buck heading across a plowed field to the feed pen.I had never seen a pic of this buck or seen this buck in a feed pen till Aug the year before. I had seen him a lot of times and lot of still pics of him on corn outside of a pen.


Pictures in late Sept. in daylight and in the feed pen.




Picture in the feed pen at a feeder a couple of days later.

The morning I killed him about 20 minutes before. I was setup in a ground blind about 125 yds away. I could not see the feeder but could see deer moving to and from the feeder thru the brush and trees.


End result of 4 weeks of hunting one mature deer. I clouded up and started to rain just before he came in.


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Re: Game Camera? [Re: Auctioneer1] #5952294 09/29/15 03:03 PM
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I believe ya. You have pics of bucks in daylight under a feeder. I would hunt there to.



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Re: Game Camera? [Re: Auctioneer1] #5952301 09/29/15 03:04 PM
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I will say this i know a guy who owns some land in Denton Co and he has a place where giants come to feeders. Its rare there but it works for him!Hes surounded by land that dousnt allow hunting. That probably makes the difference.

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I hunt trails leading to feeders and will try to never kill a deer in a feed pen or under a feeder. With a feeder you can never tell which trail or direction a deer will come in from. I let the wind dictate what I do. Mature deer are not dumb no matter what the height of the fence is.


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It's funny when these guys get pics of giant bucks at 2 am and then act like it's a good thing. They just know it's game over and that buck is as good as dead. And to top it off most are under feeders. Big bucks and sunlight and feeders don't mix. Lol


You sure about that hmmmmm?




Yea I have a buck on the wall that says otherwise as well.

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A agree Mr stxranchman



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It's funny when these guys get pics of giant bucks at 2 am and then act like it's a good thing. They just know it's game over and that buck is as good as dead. And to top it off most are under feeders. Big bucks and sunlight and feeders don't mix. Lol


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Yea I have a buck on the wall that says otherwise as well.
Wow! A buck.



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Re: Game Camera? [Re: Auctioneer1] #5952315 09/29/15 03:14 PM
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Lets see here. Most big bucks are killed during the rut.Most bucks loose a lot of weight during the rut. They eat very little. Dousnt add up that a feeder is the best place to hunt. Thats just my opinion and what Ive noticed where i hunt.



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Originally Posted By: stxranchman
I hunt trails leading to feeders and will try to never kill a deer in a feed pen or under a feeder. With a feeder you can never tell which trail or direction a deer will come in from. I let the wind dictate what I do. Mature deer are not dumb no matter what the height of the fence is.


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Does eat the same amount year round. Mature bucks follow the doe. Does eat at feeders. Bucks are killed at the same feeders they fed at for 10 months now while they are looking for does.
The more mature bucks a place has on it the more you will see at feeders or food plots or acorn trees or water sources or etc. One buck is harder to pattern than 5 or 10 or 25. TC help people with those choices. In the early 90's with film TC's I would never set one up on a feeder. 24 or 36 pics would not not last a couple of hours on a feeder. So I set up on trails or rubs or scrapes or water leading to or around feeders. With the new cameras and computers no need to worry about getting 1000's of doe pictures or moving grass/brush. Just keep hitting delete till you find the pics you want to save.


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I hunt trails leading to feeders and will try to never kill a deer in a feed pen or under a feeder. With a feeder you can never tell which trail or direction a deer will come in from. I let the wind dictate what I do. Mature deer are not dumb no matter what the height of the fence is.


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The reason I do not kill deer in a feed pen is that I have a protein feeder in there also. If I had protein feeders in different locations that I did not hunt then I would probably say different if it was only a corn feeder. But still if you really want deer to use a feeder IMO you have to keep hogs, cattle and human traffic down to a minimum to keep from continually spooking the deer. They learn the routine and changes theirs. You can still use corn in the spots you are hunting. I use a roadfeeder and it works great. If I shoot a deer on corn around a feeder I do not get out of the blind till the last deer has left. No human connection with the deer being shot or laying dead on the ground.


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Re: Game Camera? [Re: Auctioneer1] #5952335 09/29/15 03:27 PM
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I figure now after talking to you if lightning dousnt scare them the rifle blast wont either cause thats the thunder. And killing them around feeders dousnt teach the deer to avoid feeders only shooting them directly under them. Got it.



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This feeder went up around lunch the day prior.


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Ya kill him? Thats what ya want to see right there!



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