Anyone seeing any bucks on camera?

[braggscowboy]

I was seeing lots of bucks everytime I would check my camera, but now all I am seeing are does. Buck season, other than bow is over here in NE Okla. I only know of two that has been killed in my area that I had seen on camera, and I got one of them. Don't know where they go. Still have cameras out. Maybe they will start moving again so that I can see what made it through the season. Had some nice ones on camera that I hope got by for next season.

[sevenmmm]

Here too. There are a lot of hunting camps in my area and most of them just get shot.

[Oldcountryboy]

Don't worry, they'll be back come New Years Eve.

One year I had been hunting my sister's property regularly just east of Tahlequah, Ok. At the beginning of bow season there were lots of bucks hanging around. By the time gun season rolled around you was lucky to see one anywhere. After gun season I bowhunted every weekend till season was over with and never seen another buck in the area again. Except on New Years Eve! At that time Dec. 31st was the very last day of bowseason. I had went down to my sisters place one last time in hopes of getting a bow kill. Stayed in my treestand all day and never seen one deer anywhere. Come dark I crawled out of my treestand and headed to my truck which was parked in my sisters drive way. When I got there I visited my sister and brother-in-law for a while and then I left. As I was driving over the hill from thier house, with a full moon out, I could see about 12 - 15 sillouettes of buck deer on top of the hill, out in the field. Some of them were monsters!

I could not believe what I was seeing. Just a couple of hours earlier I was in a treestand only about 150 yards away inside the forrest. And I'm asking myself "Where the H. E. double hocky sticks did they come from?"

And "No" I hadn't had anything to drink yet!

[OkieDavid]

Not seeing any on cameras here either. I know they are around,just not walking by my camera.

[tallpines]

We don't have a camera set up but we have LOTS of fresh deer track in the snow every morning!

[sevenmmm]

It does make me wonder if the bucks have learned there is a correlation between a camera and a bullet?

[Paquebot]

How many times has one heard of a monster buck being taken in the final hour of a gun season? By then, shooting is sparse and the buck will figure that it's safe to come out of hiding. One which I "educated" a few years before did exactly that.

A cousin's son has owned an archery shop for years and has set up many trail cameras. There have been some deer and other things seen on them that nobody has seen with their eyes. Set one up to watch what came to eat a deer carcass and a golden eagle appeared.

Martin

[braggscowboy]

Love looking at camera after a few days. Have mostly does, but I know I have some big bucks in the area and I don't know what else. Horses get scared from time to time from something down in the hollow and snort and blow, even ran throught the fence from something. Waiting to see a mountaion lion or bear. I have seen two mt. Lions a few miles from here once and saw where they had been in the snow here. Never know what might be on there. This is one of the deer on my camera that I got the first morning about 3oo yards from the house and about 500 yards from my camera.

[foxfiredidit]

This is the stand that I am waiting to hunt. Sorry for the poor quality of the photos. I have been sidelined by an injury. Our bow season came in during September but I don't bowhunt. I was waiting for gun season which came in on the 19th of November, then I got injured and will be out of it for a couple more weeks (I hope that is all), but the rut begins about the 2nd week of January and the gun season goes out the 31st of January. Haven't been able to get in there even to pull the most recent photos from the game cams.

[foxfiredidit]

That's a nice buck you got on camera there Braggscowboy, hope you have good luck with him.

[giraffe_baby]

We have some HUGE bucks on cam.. Hubby had a Twilight shot at a MONSTER 18" straight up tined one ( I watched from back door!!) but the arrow deflected off an UNSEEN branch!!! but there is still plenty of HUGE ones on cam!! It is bow season til jan here, but muzzleloader comes in the 10th to 18th... So I suspect the bucks are a hiding again!!

[braggscowboy]

Originally Posted by foxfiredidit

That's a nice buck you got on camera there Braggscowboy, hope you have good luck with him.

I got him before 7:00 the first morning. Thanks! I see you have some good bucks in Alabama or at least on TV. Maybe high fence bucks but nice. Would like to hunt some of the ones in Alabama,

[foxfiredidit]

I don't personally know of any high fence areas around, but have heard there's a few, closer to the big towns in the central part of the state. These shown above live in the Alabama River swamp maybe 80 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. No cultivated fields around. Leased industrial (forest products companies) land, with a management program now 5 years in place. I think the lease rates are reasonable, long season in total from Sept. to Jan 31st. Three bucks a year and a doe per day bag limit. Always good mast and browse around the river bottoms with the warm winters keep them pretty fat. I'd say 180-200 lbs on a 4 y.o. is about average for us, not giants but okay. 70 food plots and off season antler supplements have gotten us one 152 in. B&C so far. Some huge ones have been seen but not killed. I think we have the wildest, spookiest deer in the world. Will go nocturnal at the drop of a pin.

[Txrider]

Don't need a camera here, saw one buck at my place the fall on the only trip I made down there lately, and my mom feeds em deer corn year round at her place.. most of the year she has a dozen or so does with their kids coming up every evening but the bucks start showing up as soon as breeding time gets close and there will be 2 or 3 showing up at her place each day trying to herd the does away and fighting and running off the yearling bucks that the does had last year.

Of course if I shot one of the deer at her place I would be disowned if not worse..

[Chuck R.]

Same here, the bucks disappeared, but that seems to be about the norm when the rifle season opens up.

Our season ends here this Sunday and I’ve only seen one buck during shooting time and he was a 4PT that I passed on. I’m seeing does almost every time I go out, but the bucks have disappeared and aren’t showing up on camera. All the guys in the office are making the same general comment.

The past 3 years I’ve shot my buck in the final 3 days of the season which is about when the 2nd rut starts here. So I'm hopeful for the weekend. IF not, I know one does who's been getting a free pass whos time will be up come Sunday afternoon.

Chuck