2024 Trail Cam Pics Thread

Haven't got the first decent up & coming velvet buck yet....only a few small bucks.

If you're getting some good pics, post em!

Here's my latest (other than does, fawns, and a few turkeys.)

Here are a few pictures. You tell we have been getting some rain. Nothing big, but most push out into the ag fields here.

Bumper crop of hogs this year for some reason.

White doe and fawn!

That's unique!

Might be AI ??lol

I have lots of pictures of the doe. Even won a new camera from cuddeback from pictures of her in the past. This is the first year that she has had a white fawn. Here is another picture taken that same time.

Here is a little buck we call spot. Had a pretty bad injury that appears to finally be healing up.


The fawns have really started to be more visible and showing up on camera in the last week and half.

Easy to confuse you learch?

I've got a couple bear baits out this summer so my camera is going off nonstop. This is one of my favorites so far.

So what does that blue line on the tree mean? I've seen those and others, just dont know what they mean.

Neat pictures!

Nothing too special yet. Hoping one of the two bucks turns into something.
Curious how old folks think that coyote is? This years pup? Looks to small to be last years but had to be born about mid February or beginning of March to be this years.

2 years in a row this guy has beat me. Hopefully next year he slips up. Will be putting a few cameras out for elk soon

I'd be getting my gun ready for them deer this season! they are going to be a dandy!

Diggerman, those blue marks are the property boundary between our land and county forest. We had a survery done last winter after a dispute with the county over a few trees we cut on county land. We did a survey and it turns out one of our lines was actually supposed to be 90' further out into county land, so they had been logging 90' of our land the full length of a 40 for decades. They didn't seem too worried about a few trees after that.

Checked one of my cameras today

Ain’t got bears down here, but I’m guessing that’s a Grizzly?

That is, a little black one was by also

NEATY NEAT NEAT NEATY WEAT

Pa. Elk

Pa. Bear

And this ugly buck

Couple of decent bucks.

Couple more

Some advanced antler development!!!

Those OK deer look like our Aug / Sept deer. Crazy how much further along they are.

Thanks, I see marks like a blue line, 2 blue hashmarks and some orange I believe. I thought the blue ones were boundry, there were some around our fourty but didnt really follow the line, I thought.

Well my son thinks this is the deer he passed last year…



This was him last year…

Good looking buck WB. What does a good buck live weigh in SW GA?

Generally 5.5+ year olds before rut are 200+. After the rut they could be as low as 150. I’m hoping that one deer I posted in the field is the buck I passed from last year. I was really worried he had run himself down too much. He looked rough after the rut. I keep peanuts or peanuts/corn out year round. I’m hoping those peanuts act as a protein supplement.

I would have thought that they would have been on the lighter side that far South. Our SE VA deer run a little bit smaller. You hear folks talk about +175 lb bucks around here until you see scale weights. Not that there aren't any... just ain't overly common.

WannaBe is in a unique area in Georgia that was restocked with deer in the 50s and 60s mostly from Wisconsin. Most other areas in the southern half of Georgia don't have as many mature bucks that will reach 200+.

N. Trapper, that one of them farm raised bucks with his ear tag torn out?!?!

Great buck.

Idk I seen it google so I decided to share

My cameras are specie specific I guess.

Cooooooolllll

A few months back. Group of gadwalls coming to eat some duckweed

Dang Swamp, making me jealous! Not wanting hogs, but now that I’m equipped to handle them, I’m missing them. I don’t miss the destruction
We did some clear cutting of timber that I never could walk through, it was THICK, when we had a dry spell last Fall. When they removed all that, it was the main area the pigs hung out. It’s great for the property, but sucks for the hog dogging and hunting. Our coon hunter that comes to run dogs ain’t been back either, lol. It knocked out a lot of predators.

I need to get back up to Turner County......and try out the .300AAC.

Fat toad killin' rabbit....but better than a fawn or a turkey.

Some pretty cool pictures. I alway enjoy the pictures when they come by carrying something.

The white doe and fawn showed up with company at the camera today.

Central Wisconsin?

That is an awesome photo!!! Keep spreading those genes.

Central Wisconsin is the Wood county population. I’m in Winnebago so east central. lol

The first one is cool. By the second one, the novelty factor is gone. After that, they are a nuisance. We really need a season on them.

Looks like she had a normal fawn and I’m guessing that’s her yearling still with her. Based on the other comments I’m guessing y’all have a population of them and they’re off limits to hunting?

He’s back!! Passed this deer last year and was worried about him after the rut because he was so run down…



We thought that was him in the field pic the other day, but I really wanted something definitive…I got it!!

That’s her white fawn from this year. I think she is 8 now and is always the first to fawn every year. If I had to guess, that brown fawn is likely her daughter’s fawn.

There was a brown doe with a white fawn at the camera last night. Guessing they both just have their fawns on that ditchbank with all the water we have had recently.

This part of county only has a couple white deer, but we have lots of it in genetics. We get a white buck to move in and our numbers will explode. Two miles away, it is not uncommon to see 8-12 white deer in the field and maybe 1-2 brown ones. They are protected. That said, if we get a white buck to move in, there is strong incentive to make sure it disappears.

That’s a huge fawn if that’s this years. She must have given birth in February, lol. That’s a yearling size here. That brown deer is definitely this years fawn.
Now there may be a miscommunication here too. I consider a deer born this year a fawn all year. Next Spring it will be a yearling. The following year it’s a 2.5 year old by the time hunting season rolls around.
Regardless that’s pretty cool. I’ve only seen one in the wild while trapping another property. Unfortunately it ended up becoming road kill.
We do have an occasional piebald and have a little buck that I saw as a fawn and is now a 2yr old. Hoping he lives to get to 5.5 just to see what he may become.

That fawn was likely born last month. If you look at the first page of this thread, I posted a few other pictures. Give a better idea on its size. It’s big, but not crazy big. Single fawns tend to grow really fast and this year was extremely helpful with early green up and lots of water.

It’s not uncommon for our single doe fawns to reach the 60 lb threshold and be breed before they are a year old. This year we will likely see that happen a little more.

I like those pictures of bucks. Nothing that developed here on camera, but I also had bucks carrying until April this year. The big ones usually push out into the ag fields to get away from the others as well.

Wasn't aware of them being over there. They are a big problem here. They are right across the river from me. So far haven't seen any on the east side yet. Am hoping not. Being protected. It doesn't take long for those bucks to become dominate, With all the complaining about them. It seems to fall on deaf ears. Doubt we will see ever see a season.

Big problem here too. They were even limited some in dispersal by 2 major highways (10/45)and the wolf river. They made it across both now. Would be even worse but guys have started taking matters into their own hands. They have made it to Outagamie county and are closing in on Waupaca. They are as far east as Neenah and south to Oshkosh.

Good Lawd look at them pigs!!

My trail cam in my backyard died after four years use. Here is couple of the last pics from January this year. We have a small acreage and I dump 50# of corn in a pile in the back corner and keep the pile full throughout the year.
Quail, pheasants, deer, fox, turkey, geese, coon, possum, coyote, you name it I’ve got a pic of it on my cam. We get lots of visitors in our backyard at the corn pile. Way more fun than a small scale bird feeder.

Going to replace my camera this year and would like your input on best model.

Bear baits started getting hit

For you guys with a serious bear population, how y’all keep them out of your traps?

Most trapping up north occurs when the bears are sleeping.

Wait bear trapping is legal in some states?? Like them big foot holds??? Wow!

Maine

That it?

Yep...Maine is it.

My sons deer showed back up…

WB,
That bigger buck is gonna be impressive!

Yep that WT is a dandy!

Last years shed measured 72”. If he gets lucky this year we’ll see how much he’s grown or lost, lol. Those pics put him near where he “should” be hanging out come Sept. There’s a big ragweed field he practically lives in that makes his direction of travel so unpredictable. Last year my son got lucky and found his most consistent trail and got to eyeball him in person and that’s when he decided to give him one more year. It’s always a gamble letting one walk. Someone else could shoot him, he could get hit by a vehicle, or even suffer some sort of injury. But when you catch them on camera a few months before season it gets you excited and planning stand sites!

Not trail cam pics but ran into these little guys and took a pic.

Uh oh, Swamp, you got a problem!!

Nice find Snowy. They running around everywhere down here.

Problem existed b4 we started hunting that property 3.5 years ago (Turner County). It continues. We've killed only 21 hogs in that time. I could've killed 100+ alone .......but I was either turkey hunting or after a mature buck.....so no unnecessary shooting.

Most of the bears are denned up when most of the trapping occurs. This was an issue with our September and October wolf trapping season, but I used no bait or food lures. Only lures I used early season were gland lures and pee post/scat sets and blind sets. That alleviated the problem for me, I know a couple guys who just figure turning bears out of traps is the price of doing business but I prefer to avoid them. With small traps for smaller animals if the are anchored solid they will generally just pull out, but any trap that will reliably hold a wolf will hold a bear.

Gotcha, didn’t know if they were as curious as deer or not. I’m with you, that’s one problem I’d prefer not to have to deal with!!

Creek rose yesterday...

Had this 8 show up today.

Anothah nice one!!

WB,
Ya'll still feeding peanut splits?

That's a great location in that oak hammock to have a feed station...clean and shady.

My feed areas are natural feed areas. Both oaks and Beauty Berries. I’d put up cameras to see what was using the areas and then decided it was worth starting to supplement feed the spots.
My hog spot was picked just because of location and we’ve seen hogs travel through there. It’s a lower area which gives me a higher vantage point for sniping.
Plus my spots in the drains are a lot cooler than the open pines, lol!!

And yes, feed peanuts about all year. I will throw corn out every now and then, but mainly when hogs show up. I figure the protein in the peanuts would be a good supplement for the bucks and does alike. Already getting pics of fawns feeding. Fast fit fawns outrun predators, lol.

Now I have a 10pt and it’s not the Spilt G2 buck…




I had a 9pt last year and wondering if this is him this year.

Couple more from last week.

Nice pics OK!!

I left this camera set over the winter aimed at our sauna building. This is just a sample of what came by. Lots of bears and fox. I particularly like the flock of six ptarmigan. I think there might be a couple of wolves also.

Sure going through lots of bait

Cool pics waggler!

Seeing a lot of fawns down here as well.

The issue with baiting is you feed everyone, including non targets.

Here’s one for y’all. They saw this buck last year and figured maybe an injury so they passed him up. They found a shed of the deformation and thought no way he’d survive based on the amount of bone that was lost.




But, apparently it’s genetics because he survived.

WB,
That was caused by an abcess in the antler pedicel and surrounding skull area.....sometimes due to excessive antler rubbing characteristics and then bacteria infecting the buck's skint up pedicel area.

It's not genetics.

It will get progressively worse each time he sheds. It will be that buck's doom.

Hopefully his doom will be a kids trophy!! And if that happens we’ll get a Euro mount for the child as well.

That's a good one to take out.

Spotted this deer as a fawn 2 years ago. This was him last year.



And this is him this year…

He's a cool looking feller!

Wanna Be, those 2 bucks are neat! Are you going to let the one with pedicle damage get mature and see what he turns into?

Probably not…we’ll pattern him and set up a ladder stand for a kid to shoot him. Or anyone that hasn’t shot a buck yet. May save him for CJ, but he’s already shot a couple bucks. Contrary to some beliefs that we’re “raising deer” for antlers, kids pretty much have free rein, anything from spots to 200” is fair game when it comes to kids.

Here’s the video from ‘22 when I first saw him…

Now those are some cool bucks Wanna Be. I wish we would get one like that piebald Instead of all these all white ones.

I’m hoping this guy sticks around, I’d really love to get his growth up to say 5-6 years old or older.

Would a piebald be legal up there?

Waggler, I know nothing about bears, but is that grizzly crossing in front of your little building there??

Yes. We can harvest piebald ones.

Well Swamp, it looks like I’ve got issues as well. This showed up on camera last night/this morning.

Uploading pics not working for anybody else?

A quick pit stop

https://youtu.be/d3DeKa5LTm4

Gotta be quick!

https://youtu.be/RZVbnRPeDns

Beautiful pictures!!!!

A few older ones.......

Victor…am I seeing that first pic correctly? That’s a bear walking towards the camera right? If so, its head looks as big as a small car!! Good Lawd that thing is huge!!

That moose looks about 6ft tall or taller!

Yes sir, that's a grizz

Well he grown!!!

A few in my pic won’t be watching the fireworks this Independence Day…

Finally, a pic looking towards the camera. Looks like he’ll be an 8 this year.

Another stand sight. I have a lock-on in this drain. It’s always good to see the fawns.

Not alot of cool ones for me yet. I use several of my cellular transmission cameras to keep an eye on water tanks on cattle pastures 30 miles away. These little dudes visit too often. kinda funny.

So what they doing? Just taking a midnight swim or is water that scarce out there?

Muskrat411 has a lot of good pictures. Something is up with his computer though so I’ll post a couple for him that I had saved on my phone.


That’s me on the snowmobile looking for wolves

That’s a big ole dog in that pic!

This is one of my favorite trail camera pictures. It too bad the camera did not take a bunch of pictures as that bear walked by

That’s pretty sweet! I’d like to see one one day, but have no desire to kill one. Beautiful creature!

Can’t tell if they’re getting bigger or not, lol.

Haven't got a single buck on t cam yet!

This was a nice wolf hanging out in front of my trapping camp. Teach me not to get out and set traps

I thought that was a Caribou. I always wish for a Caribou picture on trail camera. I never get one though. My fault For not putting cameras where the caribou are when they are out there.

Heck my initial look I thought cool, a caribou!! Then I got studying the antlers and thought WOW that’s gonna be a huge elk!!
Great pics man! I like the wolf as well!!

Had a few bucks in the dove field this evening…

WB,
That BT millet is pretty!

We’re still bewildered how it survived. Guess that’s some tough seed. Prior to planting we had rain. Planted and none for 3-4 weeks…only moisture it got was from the dew. We thought for sure it was a dead field.

Those are some nice WT's.

Just picked up a camera I had out since last Fall. Had a few nice pics on it.

Nice pics JP! What kind of wolf is that?

Cool pics JP!

It's was cold up there!

Jurassic Park, the picture quality on those is amazing. Mind sharing which model Moultire camera that is?

We call these Timber Wolves.

I had a lot more wolf pics from this pack, as it’s grown. I will try trapping them this Winter. Had pics of the female this Spring with big nipples. So there’s pups this year and this pack is putting a lot of pressure on the deer in this area.

It was a mild winter! Lol



I’m very happy with this camera. I bought it from Cabela’s 6 or 7 years ago on clearance for $99.99CAD, original price was $199.99CAD.

From the camera, model# MCG-13181 product name M-40.

I think this camera might be discontinued. Wish I could buy 10 more.

This doe was hit by a car while carrying a fawn. Looks like she made it but no sign of the fawn
Pictures are from my cell taking the picture of computer screen

Cool but not cool pic. I mean that’s a one in a million shot, but it would even be nicer if the fawn made it. If the dates are right I’m guessing that was real early and the way she looks I bet she didn’t make it either.

Top picture is the same doe taken last week She was in rough shape for a while and thought she died giving birth. Just showed up again. No fawns following her.

Found some more trail cam pics on my phone

Just curious? What the heck are you hooking your cameras to? I don’t see a tree in a lot of your pics.

Got a couple nice ones there!! Love watching the progression

This morning.....creek is almost dry......



This evening...flooded...

Wow! Ran into some good rain over and up in Wilcox Co today. I mean flooding roadways it was coming down so hard!

Those pics are in NE Turner County....today.

The wolf one was on a pile of rocks.
The moose and first wolverine is a tree.
The last wolverine at my coast camp is on a 2x4 stand I made.

Some the best wolf pictures my trail camera has taken.

Pretty cool pics. I put a camera on a stump once…coyote peed on it!!

Flooded branch dropped in a few hours...

Hogs wandering up to water....early this morning


Young buck later today...after water dropped....

This guy is starting to look pretty good. Hope he sticks around.

He’s a little behind ain’t he? Gonna definitely be one to keep an eye on!

Gotta love seeing the little ones…

And this guy just showed up…he seems to be a little leery though. Got corn and peanuts out.

That's a pretty buck.

Hard to guess accurately from a pic, but I'd say high 140s gross...once he's rubbed off.

We have no recollection of this deer. I went back through some of last years pics and my son did also and were drawing a blank. Be interesting to see if he sticks around.

I've yet to get a pic of a big velvet buck this summer. Only have 2 cameras out 100 miles north of my residence on the 1000 acre tract.

But, I'm about to set up a camera survey on my 400 acre property here in my home county. Beginning in August, will set up 8 cameras (1 camera/50 acres) on evenly located pre-baited sites. Run em for 14 days. Then, total up the info for bucks per doe, fawn recruitment, deer/sq mile, deer/acre, age structure, number of mature bucks, etc.

Haven't ran a complete survey on this property in over two decades, so looking forward to seeing results. This property was almost completely logged in the past 4 years (pine and hardwoods). Only 85 acres out of 400 that was too wet for a skidder to stand up on that wasn't logged. Neighbors have logged some of their's in past few years also. Deer movement patterns have been greatly disrupted, but as more regrowth is occurring, deer are responding well.

Half of this tract is river bottomland. Half is upland sand ridge. Plantation pines planted 3 years ago on half of property. Other half is site prepped and will be planted in pine this winter.

Should have some good pics of better bucks soon. I saw 7 bucks together a couple weeks ago on this tract...3 of em were very nice.

Yeah, last years clear cut is greening up very nice. Our pines 2-3yrs have enough cover for good bedding and even hiding deer.
We’ll get that clear cut cleaned up and planted next year I believe. Have they planted y’all’s yet? Or are they going to? Our loggers left some areas that had creek drainages and a few lone hardwoods standing that would be a rifle hunters dream out of a climber or even a ladder stand.
We’ll be doing nothing but archery hunting bucks, but will probably break out the rifles to thin does. I would’ve swore we wouldn’t have seen many fawns this year with all the does we took last year, but those little jokers are running around everywhere.
I went and got a camera this evening to move to a different property that had some pigs show up, and I jumped a fawn. That joker ran about 100 yards one direction, then ran straight back and past me for 100 yards then ran back towards me about 50yds and blew at me!! If you’ve never had a fawn blow at you, it’s almost comical. He just watched me walk on down the trail and then watched me get my camera and walk back past him. I hope it’s a little buck cause it ain’t gonna last long acting like that if it’s a doe!!

I like the squirrel!!

Past couple days at the branch..





Big hog...

Best buck I've gotten a pic of so far this year. I'll keep a bachelor group around, but seem to pick up my best deer in September (not complaining). I can generally start to gameplan around that time.

I guess I'll be 'that guy' as well. How do I rotate the dang pic?

Nice buck, he gonna get to 10 by the time he’s done growing!

Don’t know if you’re using a computer or phone, but with the phone after it downloads, you can move inside that little box to the right and you can rotate that way. Left/Delete/Right.

Wanna Be, you had me until 'but with the phone after it downloads'... Appreciate it though!

Before pigs showed up…



After pigs showed up last night…

Pigs didn’t eat the feed?

That cottontail is out in the heat!

Yeah, that’s after he rebaited it. He found some sign and put up a camera and some corn. The pigs found it last night so he rebaited to see if they come on back. May be shooting tomorrow night. And I thought that was a fawn, lol.

Had a landowner send me this saying my services were needed, lol.



I went and stuck up a camera and some sweet corn on the cob husks and cobs (wife made creamed corn today) and gonna see if I can get some pics. Would really be nice if they’d come in a little earlier so I could be on time for work!!

Some cool trail cam pics!

I want to see some alugator or froc randomly show up in here lol

Croc

Think ole pot belly is growing…

Can't wait to see you posting pics witha deer and a lounge sticking out with a rifle or bow leaning on it

We’ll see, lol. Had an opportunity last year but thought he was too young. They don’t get that old by being stupid. He’s definitely 5.5yrs old this year, so I suspect he’s not gonna be on a daylight schedule too long after he sheds. Got a pile of does and young bucks that come through before he shows. Right now he’s stopping by on his way to the millet field and then the peanut field beyond that. We’ll burn the millet and have 2 dove hunts before I can hunt him and his pattern will change. I’ll find his trail to that spot and set up a lock-on or climber.

WB,

Ya'll run outta peanuts?

Picked up some corn for the hogs and went ahead and fed the deer too. Hate feeding hogs peanuts, lol!!

Wanna Be, do deer eat peanuts ?

This camera takes bad pictures. You should replace it.

Is this a serious question?
If so, yes sir. Planted peanuts get hit hard, but they’re eating the “green” plant. Once harvested they’ll eat the peanuts off the ground.
My son has access to peanuts year round and brings me bags and in some cases he’ll back his truck up and they’ll load the bed. I bought sealable 55gal drums to store them. Peanuts are pure protein for deer.
With that said, at my son’s plantation they will not touch them, lol. Mine flock to them. I have videos of deer, hogs, coyotes, coons, and possums all eating peanuts. I even have deer and coyotes eating together and possums and coyotes eating together, lol.

Think he took a pic of a pic off his computer screen. Not my pic, I just straighten it for him.

We’ve seen this guy before on here, just thought it was a cool pic in the browntop with the sun hitting him…

The “9” appears to be growing some…we’re thinking he’s still too young though. Thinking only 4.5??

Wowza!

Tlguy, that’s a big buck!! Same one in both pics?

Yeah, I figure it is. Those pictures are only 400 yards apart as the crow flies. We have been mostly watching the bears this summer, so imagine my surprise when I saw that pop up on the camera!

I love those long brow tines.

I bet! Another month of growing antlers, he’s going to be huge. I hope you get more pics of him!

Seen these 2 in the buckwheat over the last 4-5 days. Always good to see some stock for next year.

Nice buck!! Hope you get some better pics of him and he sticks around! Be really sweet to get a daylight pic!!

I've gotta make a trip upstate soon to move these 2 cell cams. Hogs, does amd fawns, small bucks, and a few turks ain't what I'd like to see this time of year.....

The rest of the sounder from July 4 showed up early this morning. I’ll add some food and set the alarm for 0530 in the morning to see if they’re there and I can make a stalk on them.

10 days of growth…July 6 to July 10

Nice buck, Wanna be.

Wicked buck wanna be!!

WB,

Dat is a good'un!

that's gna be a legit Georgia giant

His right side measured 72” last year. My son’s been watching him for 3 years now. He was a 130ish 2 year old and he knew he’d be one to keep an eye on. He saw him last year and text from the stand he was 23 yards but needed another year. He pulled his stand and kept cams up monitoring him. We knew he made it through the season and found him early this year. We still think he’s young, but it’ll be a game time decision for him to make if he has him in front of him again.

Pretty cool the growth over 10 days.

Today..

I need a cell cam 360

Nothing special on camera for me. No bucks, moose, elk but a few doe and fawns and turkeys. Here is a muley fawn.

Wonder is whitetail fawns make fun of mule deer fawns because of their ears, lol???

Does anyone have pics of their tree stands and hunting set ups, etc?

Here’s a pic of my son in a lock on. It’s not very high but situated between 3 trees and I’ve had deer walk directly beside it. For some reason they pay absolutely not attention to it. He’d just shot his first archery deer in this pic and was shaking too bad to climb down, lol. Lock on, 3 or 4 sets of steps, a lifeline, and a strap on the tree above the lock on for your harness. 12ft maybe, lol.

Here’s a ladder stand they pay no attention to. It’s against a tree wide enough to break my outline. And it’s a great coon spot, caught 9 coons here. Look behind the coon.

I kinda think that first one is cool. Is the platform on it homemade or a metal frame?

It’s a cheap lock on from Walmart. My son had all our good ones put out at his property. Think I was a Waddel special Walmart had for $89 with sticks included. All I did is reenforce the straps. We do that every year. There were 3 trees growing together so the steps are on one trunk and the platform is on another. The lifeline is on the trunk with the steps and the other strap is on the trunk with the lockon itself. We step on the lockon, connect caribeaner to harness and disconnect lifeline.
Like I said, it’s not but maybe 12ft or so but we took 7 does from that stand last year. It’s in a drain with oaks that is just a natural travel route. I’ve shot a deer with my bow, called my son to come get in the stand while I was getting my deer out, and he shot another before I ever got back with the truck, lol.

^^^^good buck^^^

I've got to move my cameras to new locations...

You need to go kill those hogs and you’ll start seeing deer! I beginning to think your just trying to tempt someone from a surrounding county to sneak in and kill them so you can prosecute them, lol!!!

Finally seeing some poults. They’ve been bugging in my buckwheat plots pretty heavily in the past week.

Good looking poults. Hopefully they’ll make it to adulthood.

Plot is to the right. Momma and poults coming off roost over a swamp to the left.

Pretty cool capture!

I'm starting to think I have a neighbor that's releasing them. That is another group that looks like they've been on a slab most of their life.

Start killing them and he’ll get the message, lol.

Figured I’d get one of these on camera sooner rather than later.

Hate these things.

Great Picture. I have them around too but nevah got one on camera, Yet!!

Great spot for a camera...on a trail like that.

Cattle do that?

If I ever get anything like that on camera down here and I’m getting a life size pic made of it!! Everything above the mantle will be taken down and that pic would go right there…28 years of marriage be danged!!

Cool pic!!

Yeah that’s a cow trail.

Right on, good stuff here.
Just like 4 wheel's will travel.

Ok, never mind, that one is going on the wall!! That’s a cool capture!!

That last pic looks like a stalemate

Here’s some for ya…long time back when baiting up some hogs. When you’re hungry, it doesn’t matter who the company is.

Not sure how it ended but it ended good for one of the two.

about time to get them camera out again

Don’t know if he’ll make it to last years size or not. He has about 3 more weeks to see…

Don't look like he's gonna be any better.

He better get to growing, otherwise I think you’re right. Guess it’ll be like last year for him and get him in at bow range and decide then.

Bucks down here at the state line will start rubbing in mid-August. Probably a couple weeks later up your way.

Yeah I had some of the bigger bucks in velvet the second week of archery season last year.

Just for you Swamp, turkeys finally showed up on feed at one of my cameras!

Nice! Some jakes for the future!

Yeah, glad to see them. That particular drain leads straight to the dove fields and takes a turn right where the camera is heading West. My Lock-on is at the far West end.
Believe it or not, that canera goes off all day long, but at night the pics slow way down. Just a natural travel route, especially during the heat of Summer and when acorns are falling.

Those high ground oak hammocks make nice locations for feed/camera locations.

Did you rake that area clean? Or did the critters clean those up like that?

Heck no, lol. When I first decided to put up a camera because of the oaks it was all leaves. 1.5yrs of feed in that spot does it…plus hogs found it several times over the years as well and that keeps things cleared out. My other spot in the very back of the property is the same way.

When I had the brilliant idea of using posthole diggers to bury bait in the back, lol. This spot just since last August has had 30+ pigs killed off it.

When their head is deep down in that hole....you can sneak up on em!

The killing started 6 days after that pic was taken, lol. I didn’t have driving privileges yet, lol. I spent a while closer to quail season getting that area filled back in. There’s a feed trail up near that tower stand. I sneak in on it and shoot down. We were hunting that course with the owner and his buds last year and happened to get on a covey right under a big oak just out of view to the East (left) of the camera and one of his guests made a comment about all the .308 bullet casings. I was thinking, Oh heck, this ain’t gonna be good. The manager knows why they’re there, I didn’t know the owner did. The owner laughed and said talk to Mark about that and get him to show you the videos too! Come to find out the manager sends them to him I guess to show how I earn my money, lol.

Lil’ guy had been gone a couple of weeks, he put on a few inches since the last pic.

Ok, you got to name names for us Southerners…is that a Fisher or a Martin in the first pic. I’ve seen y’all post dead ones side by side and I know the Martin is smaller I think, but I don’t have a comparison in that pic, lol.

The photo shown above is a fisher. Note the shorter tail on the marten. + marten up to two pounds fisher 5-15 pounds

Same place different view. Six days later.

Before the trap was set.

Thanks for the clarification! Those Martins are a lot smaller!

Now another question…you trapped the bear??

ebsurveyor,
You foot snared the bear?

I got to do that a little back in late 90s-early 2000s while employed as a GW. Over a 2 or 3 year period, I captured 9 bears......one in a culvert trap and 8 in Aldrich foot snares. They are a very easy critter to catch in a foot snare on a bear trail.

Well dang Swamp, you need to share some stories or pics! Didn’t realize that was an actual thing. So what if you catch a sow with cubs? How in the world do you release??

The bears I trapped were bee yard raiders and I trapped them as an agent of DNR to assist game management in the area.

Once I caught one, I had to call game management tech to come jab em. Then, we weighed em, pulled a upper premolar, and ear tagged em. Then, woke em back up and released.

We operated with a policy agreement with beekeepers down here that a bear that depredated a bee yard twice was lethally removed. I only killed one of those 9. He was a fine specimen of a south Ga bear too. I caught him twice...3 months apart. Bear#269...he and I have a story together.

4 or 5 others I caught were confirmed dead within a few years, too. One road-killed that I just happened to find....still alive but badly injured. 3 or 4 were legally taken during our bear season...still wearing my ear tag. One travelled more that 50 miles from where I caught her in Echols County in January and was killed by a hunter in October in Ware County. Others were never seen/heard from again. All but a couple, I released at capture site as being caught and handled helped served as an aversion to bee larvae and honey found in a wooden box inside an electric fence.

I've got some good pics...just will have to hunt them all up and take a pic of them as this was before I had a digital camera.....all are 35mm prints.


For legal bear trapping...I think Maine is the only state that's allowed today.

I also caught a 50 to 60 lb cub in a Victor 1.75 coilspring while trapping coyotes. I was off work and running a long trapline near Fargo, Ga when this happened.

Wife videoed this release and it was very "exciting" for me. Big momma bear and the other cub was there with us the entire time.

That was the last bear I trapped. I no longer kill bears. I pre-baited and used cameras so that I did not catch sows or cubs.

A year later I couldn't trap that place.





this is what we went after

All these are up and running past couple days....

Good deal! Looking forward to your results.

All kinds of stuff comes to Dobbins red fox gland lure.

That’s a good amount of cameras SW!

Haha, red fox urine or gland lure has the same appeal all across the country I see! About can’t use it down here due to the deer.

Done a card swap and re-bait this morning to make sure all cameras are working properly for the deer survey on my 400 acre tract.

Some decent bucks revealed after only 2 days of in-service cameras on this property.......12 more days to go...

Ol' One Eye...I know him from past 3 seasons.


Other bucks gonna need more study to see if I know them...

jk,
Now you know when bears breed in your area.....

Dang Swamp, been holding out on us! Got some good looking bucks there!!

All those are the cheaper sd card pull cameras. They come in handy and work well. They'll all go on buck scrapes by early October thru December.

Have 3 more that are cell cameras. Those are super for real time info without making any intrusions. Just have to get them in the right spot to begin with.

Just got all those SD card cameras in place day b4 yesterday. Needed to make sure all were working....I was sorta surprised by the number of bucks in just 2 days. Looks to be 3 or 4 that are mature in those.

Can’t wait to see what the end results look like.

My son has been baiting these up and we think he got the entire sounder.

Good catch on the pigs!

Yeah, they bought him a Pig Brig so he’s learning, lol. Second sounder he’s caught. If he find rooting he’ll bait that spot up and get them coming in regular. He’ll then add the T-post and let them get used to that. Then after 4 days straight he’ll add the netting raised up and wait until they hit that for 5 days straight, then lower the net where it’ll scrub their backs for 3 days straight, then drop it and generally will catch them.

He’s put up the T-post before and hogs never showed up again after 4 weeks, lol. Some pigs can be caught and some can’t.

Man he might make someone a fine deer!! Then again if he hangs around he may live another year, lol.

That is a good buck.

Oh he’s pretty, just ain’t old enough.

Wanna Be. Ain't a pig guy. What's a " sounder"?

The entire “herd” of pigs. Or like a flock of ducks. Or a covey of quail. Just the whole group hanging out together.

Thanks!

Yes sir! I like this thread. I’m seeing critters I may never see and definitely won’t see down here, lol!!

The white fawn hasn’t shown back up on camera since a couple dogs came through. The white does has come through numerous times but only with a brown fawn.

We did have enough rain that I was getting lots of pictures of my feathered friend.


Have lots of nice young bucks, but nothing big. Looks like I might need to knock down some vegetation pretty soon.

Great pics. Hope that fawn shows back up, that was really cool.

I haven’t gotten a pic of the G2 buck since July 5. He heads South for a while, then should show back up about the 3rd week of August or so…hopefully.

Had another nice buck show up last night. Don't think he's the same guy I posted earlier, he looks a bit smaller to me.





He could be this buck from last year.

Nice one. Cool as heck watching them grow through the years.

What’s everyone using for batteries?

Lithium?

Rechargeable?

Lithium they last a while for me like almost a full year

Haha…I buy the 48AA packs from Sam’s. I keep mine set for 5 min intervals over feed during the Spring/Summer. On cams that are on trails I’ll keep to 0 seconds.
On hog cams I’ll switch them to 60min during the day and set them to 5 min and hour before dark. If pigs show up I’ll drop it to 30sec for sneaking purposes.
My batteries normally last a couple of months or so this time of year.

My only issue with Lithium is they’ll show 100% until they die, lol. At least on cell cams. And all my cameras are Spartan cell cameras
When I was running regular trail cams regular AA’s would last almost a year.

Lithium in the winter they last longer in the cold, summer just good quality Alkali can get 4-5 months for much less cost.

Regular Energizer AAs is what I use in all cameras except my Spartan cell cam.

I use a rechargeable 6volt sealed battery in a Harbor Freight 30cal ammo box for the Spartan. Use a bungee cord and hang the battery box on back of tree. About once per year charge is all that's needed for 10s of thousands of pics.

First glance had me a bit confused, lol!!

I buy Rayovacs. 48 count. No problems with them.

All I ever see around here is does. If not a doe a small buck.

Now that you know where the does hang out move cameras to where the bucks hang.

First pictures of the year.

Liking that split!! Nice bucks bowhunterks!!

Got to be the coolest capture! A hen quail just flushed!

Just got a camera out this week. Decent 8. Top pic is best pic I've got of this buck so far. He looks like hes hot good mass, forked g2 on right side and maybe some other nontypical stuff.

Haven't hunted this spot for a few years so no real history with any of these bucks

Just Rayovacs or Kirkland AAs bought in the bulk pack, depending on what store I'm at when I need them. Checked a couple cameras today, one had a total of four pictures on it, first one when a bear broke it off the tree, two while it was laying on the ground and one when I picked it up. Next camera was on a strap rather than a screw in mount. The day after I put it up a cow elk walked up to it and licked it and nosed it a quarter of the way around the tree so it was not pointed at the trail, a couple days later it came back and shoved it the rest of the way around so it was pointed at a wall of brush five feet away. So in three weeks I had pictures of a couple elk, a few deer and a camp robber that landed about a foot in front of it.

10 pt is filling out nicely

Yes sir, hope you get some more pics of that buck. Looks like he has some character!

Me too. He's peaked my intrest. I thinking I will. It's in a pretty good spot until the crops come out. Just a mile and a half from home. I'll keep u posted.

I've got a pile of rechargeables (mainly eneloops) that I thought would be great and a money saver. But it didnt work out that way. They seem to maintain enough power to run the camera at times---particularly in picture mode vs video or in day time. They tricked me into thinking everything was ok until I realized they didnt have the power to turn on the IR at night and also run video. Once I went to regular AAs the problem went away.

Set this camera on a wolf pee post. As you can tell other predators mark it also. Ignore the time and dates, that camera is too much of a pain to set them and I don't bother.

Looks like I need wolf pee, lol!!

About to ravage a muscadine vine with “protective” netting

Haha! Possums don’t play!!

Ole boy is starting to grow on me…

He's good some nice legnth

This buck (1st three pics) is 6.5 years old this fall(even though he looks younger). He had the exact same rack shape when he was 3.5....just less mass and tine length. I named him Pinchers. The following year (his 4th fall) the entire 200 acre river bottom where he spent most of his time was clearcut...pine and hardwood. He left. Don't know where he went for a year, but he showed back up last fall with exact same rack configuration, but had lost his left eye. He had also moved out of the bottoms to the sand ridge and he is still there now. His bases and beams are thicker than last year.








And finally! Some poults on one of my properties. There were 3 adult hens and 8 crow- sized poults...actually saw them in a logging road this morning, too.

White patches on both flanks and each side of his snout. He was a button buck last fall...and has a slight humped snout.

Swee pics Swamp!! I really wish Pinchers didn’t have those little crab claws! A big mature 6 is a deer I’m wanting. A buddy of mine killed one several years ago that was 128” as a 6, lol. Deer stayed that way for forever and just kept adding length and mass. It was a beautiful buck that went over 200#. I’ll try and find a pic of it.

Ole Pinchers still got character! And liking that white on the young buck!!

That buck in the pic you posted is a fine specimen!

My last bowhunt in north Missouri (2022), I had the biggest 6pt I've ever seen 30 yds away for over 15 minutes...broadside. He raked in a scrape and rubbed a thigh-sized tree. This buck was absolutely stunning. Incredible main beam length and crab claws (g2s) that were at least a foot long. His brow tines (g1s) were about 8" too. Looked like he weighed well over 200lbs.

This was on the 1st day of hunt at 4pm and I had already seen several very good bucks (a couple better than the 6pt)....just outta bow range. I struggled with whether to arrow him and talked myself out of it and hung the Mathews back on the hanger and sat back down. He walked on down the trail and out of sight. I immediately regretted the decision, but.....

The next afternoon (same tree) this buck pictured came thru following a doe...15 yd shot. I had caught a glimpse of him earlier about 75 yds out. He made passing that trophy 6pt easier to swallow. I rough scored this one at 140". I'm not sure that 6pt would've made 140" but he likely would've been close.

Later that evening, my son was on a picked soybean field edge about 500 yds from me and texted me that the big 6 was out in the field chasing other bucks out of the field. He never had a close enough shot even though he had his Ravin X-bow. His description of the 6pt when I texted him back about the buck's size was OMG!!! But, a few minutes later he arrowed this nice 10pt...so we've almost forgot about that huge 6pt.

Both outstanding deer! Congrats!! The head on your buck is freaking huge! Bet that was a fun drag!!

I just like character. My buddy even offered me that 6 before he took it out, I just don’t shoot other peoples deer, lol.

Not sure if these guys will be around come archery season. The peanut farmer north of us got a depredation permit and I saw 5 or 6 laying in his field this morning. We shoot the brakes off them but we have more deer than 2 processors could handle in a single season. We shut one down last year, lol.

Sux on the neighbor having a crop damage permit. If they do it right/legal.....they'll just orphan fawns....and not kill any bucks....especially this late in summer as antlers are visible..so no excuses for violating permit.

My farmer neighbor to the north of the lease that the above pics came from is installing a high fence around the field. Says it gonna cost $50 thousand to do that field and another further north.

Gonna be interesting to see what this does to the deer movement patterns on that 400 acre lease.

Was able to drive an ATV right up to each of em....in those open hardwoods. Thank goodness.

MY CELLULAR TRAIL CAMERAS ARE ALL DOWN. SO ILL POST SOME OLDER PICS FROM A COUPLE WINTERS AGO. hOPE YOU GUYS DONT MIND. NEW STUFF ONCE i GET THE CAMERAS GOING.

Buck just showed up on the 26th. Been consistent evening / morning since. Hope he hangs around 2 more months.

Good Lawd those jokers look huge!! 100+ pounds???

Got a little width to him, lol!! Looks like a Texas deer. Hope he hangs around and you get him!!

You’re whining about no coyotes on that other thread.


I’ll trade ya all the coyotes in the world for access to deer like you got!

Screw coyotes!

… you got to make pets out of them from what I’ve seen Boone lol

Come to Southern Georgia this fall.

I'll point you in the right direction.

It won't be easy or a guarantee, but if you use your public land techniques, you'll get a chance at a decent swamp buck.

Letting them grow works too.

… I let y’all let em grow and name them…. Cheaper that way when they wander off the petting zoo lol

… thanks uncle Swamp… but that’s a long ride for another pine goat named Randy

… you men know I’m just giving you a hard time right

Do you really name them? Like real names or just characteristics names?
I’m gonna find one to name. Only issue is I’d hate to shoot one named and text someone and say, “Hey, I just shot Bob!”
We have given names like, Wide 8, Tall 8, Split G2, Piebald, and that deer with the funky rack. I would really love to find one that earned the name, The Big 6!!
We did have a doe named “Granny” she was about 10ish and had a pure grey face…easy to recognize from 100yds away.

As far as public land is concerned, I don’t hunt it for deer. Grew up doing it though. Used to have some awesome bow spots. 50/50 chance on a deer or hog about every sit. Back then brown it’s down baby!! Or legal and it’s down!! Never killed anything huge, respectable maybe, but not Savell caliber. And back then even those swamp pigs tasted pretty decent.

Got into a few leases and still never killed anything huge, respectable but not huge.

It wasn’t until my some started dating his future wife and hunting where I now hunt that I saw pics from a trail camera and was like holy crap there’s shooters everywhere!! Don’t know when my son passed me on “management” but he was quick to inform me those aren’t shooters, lol.

Well, not gonna lie, when I got the invite I thought I’d hit it big! It took me a year or two out there passing deer bigger than I’d ever killed in my life and watching deer to realize what a big deer was and if we let them go, they would grow. The good news was if you still have “blood lust” running through your veins, does abound like fleas. Shoot your hearts content, lol.

My son and I have both killed what we consider trophy deer or our personal best ever deer. So now, we want to either top that or shoot an old buck. I’m at the advantage because while we both have one with the rifle, I don’t have one with a bow yet. His personal best archery buck scored 154” so now he’s wanting one bigger. I’m wanting 150ish. Just want a P&Y. Net would be nice, but gross is fine too. Where we hunt we can be somewhat selective. Does it always work out? Nope, but it works out more often than it doesn’t.

So said all that to say this, We’re hunting premium fairly large acreage properties that can and does grow big deer. They are just “personally managed” to get pics like I get. Our county is sorta known for big bodies and pretty decent antlers. And yes, I spend probably 300+ days a year out there and could walk you to a covey of quail or show you a particular deer or turkey from a distance. Now getting within archery or shotgun range of that deer or turkey is an entirely different matter, lol. They’re all still wild animals and have made me lose sleep and time chasing them. So my pics do not represent public land or lease land really, it’s just a private managed low hunting pressure property and I consider myself extremely lucky to be able to hunt it, work it, trap it, and just have access to it.

^^^^how many words can you type per minute?

All thumbs…can’t type to save my life!

… you’re working way to hard then… going to have drink a recovery shake after that one or something

Just a perspective on the pics while icing the knee.

What in the jumped up (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) is wrong with your knee? … you ain’t been typing with it now have you ?

This old sway backed piney woods rooter walked by a camera a few minutes ago. He's got some cutters too, based on his bulging upper lips...

Bet you can smell him 100 yds away downwind.

He'd be a good'un to put a Wasp Jak-Hammer thru....or a .300 AAC round.

…. Not a trail cam pic as I don’t own one …but Bud killed this great big ol sow behind the house a few years ago…. She must have been on a corn feeder for awhile as the fat was pure clean white and meat was mild tasting. I only eat the ones with thick white fat

Looks like ya'll were the one's that were fat'nin her up....lol

Naw … a whole sounder of them that size came through…. That wasn’t even the biggest one … that’d be a lot of beer money to feed them out lol

Good looking piggie!

Swamp I got one showing on camera for the last couple of days, but he’ll stay for one pic and gone. I thought just a boar looking for a sow after the first day and only one pic. But he’s consistent in coming through, just not staying. Ain’t ever seen a pig that’ll pass up a free all you can eat meal. May try calling him this evening or tomorrow morning.

But...the sow is laying in corn.

I've got pics of this one for about 3 weeks now...every few days, but today's pic was the best pic of him.

It ain’t corn … that’s in the front yard after we drug it up the hill with tractor

… dang thing was leaking corn lol

Uh huh!

Tell the truth and shame the devil!

… my boy might have scattered a little here and there to keep ‘em around lol

Yessir!

See we ain’t much different in our methods...lol

It’s a toss up between the bow and the thermal. It is pretty fun sneaking in a slinging an arrow through one or even setting up in the tree waiting on one you know will show. For ugly critters, they have some keen instincts for staying alive.
I also believe if night hunting and thermals weren’t allowed, then we’d be in a big mess!!

True!

… her name was charlotte

You've carried it further than me and WannaBe.

I've never named a piney woods rooter.

I’ll have to pay more attention to fat on ours. Most are so lean I couldn’t tell you what color the fat is.

The stink usually overrides any interest I have in that wild pork.

… stay away from the boars Uncle Swamp… this is the biggest I’ve killed… partner of mine killed one a little bigger..but buzzards won’t even eat em

That jokers got a big ole head on him.

… great big ol head …his name was bucsnbears

Thought that thing was a Hippo at first lol.

Dang near looks like an African warthog don't he?

Here s one with a name. About ten years ago, my son’s buddy got a new bow for Christmas and was looking for something to shoot. I had a sow and three young pigs on a corn feeder and told him where to go. He killed the sow and the three young pigs just kept coming back to the feeder. Two little black boars and a red female. My wife named them Larry, Moe, and Roberta. About six months later, Larry became a casualty of another arrow. About a year later, Roberta just disappeared. But old Moe kept coming back. He got where he would let me pet him and scratch his head while he fed at the feeder. He was truly a judas pig - he would bring other hogs with him, and when I would walk up to him and he didnt run, the other hogs didn't know what to do. I shot dozens of other hogs with my bow while I was standing right beside Moe, feeding under the feeder. He hung around for about 2 1/2 years. We would paint him with orange spray paint during hunting season. Finally, one day my wife and I rode down to the feeder on the ranger to fill it with corn. Moe was there like usual. I started petting him and scratching his head. My wife hit something in the ranger that made a metal clanking noise. It spooked Moe and he jumped to the side, knocking me down. He probably weighed about 200 lbs now and was sporting some decent cutters. He ended up standing astraddle me. I could already feel those teeth ripping my guts out. He carefully stepped over me, without even brushing me. I stood up, petted him a few times, got in the ranger and told my wife that was it. Wasnt filling the feeder - it was time for Moe to make it on his own. He hung around for about three months before he left or the orange paint wore off and we could not identify him again

Really cool story.

Brave man! I ain’t encountered none I wanted to pet or even thought they’d let me pet, lol! We have caught some piglets and shoats that some boys fattened up and BBQ’ed. Those caught young and fed corn or peanuts tasted better than store bought pork.

That is a great story WC!

Let’em eat in peace last night…tonight will be a different story, lol!

Your ferals look like they just got out of someone's pen.

They losing some serious money then. They’ve all looked like that since I’ve been out there. I’ve got pics of a black sow with a piglet of every color combo you could imagine…black, red, red splotches, black/white, etc. We had a Hampshire running around even the hog dog guys were a little worried about catching. That joker was close to 300# and you could see tusks from 100 yards away. How he slipped the dogs was a mystery. They were one him two different times and lost him. Every time it was at the beaver swamp. Speculation was he’d get in the water and swim to one of the little islands out there.

$29 Muddy sd card camera. I've had good service out of these. I currently have 7 of them. 5 are three or four years old.

Haha! Cameras have come a long way. I ran some cheap Walmart cameras for while on trails and was pleasantly surprised at some of the pics.
That’s a great pic too!!

… not much meat on those…what do you hunt them with… #8’s out of a 20 gauge?

Used to...but that tore em up too bad. Went to just a fly swatter.

Looking Good!

WB,
This one happened to stroll by one of my cell cameras in Turner County this afternoon. He seems to know that camera is unnatural.

He ain’t no youngster either!

That's right. He is thick from top of back to bottom of belly.

Those deer up there on those better soils drawrf these deer down by the Florida line on this sand.

Not sure how well he’ll show up, but I like a buck with character. I really hope I get a better pic of him.

The daytime pic my sons been waiting for…

Checked a couple cameras today, had a coal black wolf on one. And since ya'll like to look at horned critters I threw in a pic of some of them also.

These two bucks look like littermates, been getting them on this camera pretty regular. For a cheap $25 dollar chinese camera it takes pretty good pictures in the daytime, but nighttime they are really grainy. But I can't really see the IR flash like I can on so many cameras and it doesn't seem to spook the critters like most of mine at night. Just got one of those cheap Muddy's like Swamp is running to try, but you need to watch it with them, some models have a 1.5 second delay on the shutter, which is at least double if not more than any other camera I have looked at, and on a trail an animal walking at a decent pace is liable to go clear through the picture before the camera snaps it.

That wolf pic is sweet!! Do y’all have a season on them??

And a nice bachelor group of elk.

Yes we do, we just lost four months of our trapping season to the grizzly bear lawsuit, so trapping is only open December 1 to February 28 now in this part of the state, but hunting is still year round.

Cool, hope to see pics of that solid black one in a trap!!

Well, he’s still alive!! Ain’t had his pic in over a month. Not the best pic, but enough to know it’s the split G2 buck.

He's healthy too!

Yeah, his gut is what told me it was him without even seeing the antlers. We’re thinking I screwed up last year on age…he’s definitely 5.5+ now, lol.

How many deer y’all see?

Cool pic of them bedded. 2 racked bucks and 1 headless deer.

Thinking of putting a lock-on in there, or just leaving it alone and give them a place of rest. It’s a place you can drive right by and they don’t move. It’s surrounded by some THICK brush. It also will hold water when it’s really wet.

Still a little slow here until corn all gets picked but seeing a few

Oh he’s nice! Nice brows too!!

Guess they use the same beds, lol.

2.5. What do I win??

Appreciate the cell camera suggestions. Got 2 of the Reveal Gen 2 on sale for $79 a couple of weeks ago. They’re pretty addicting. I can see myself with 10 more.

Still using my card cameras. Big 10 and this buck coming through morning and evening like clockwork. Hoping he’ll keep that pattern for 6 more weeks, but I doubt it.

His running mate.

Those some good looking deer!!! Hope they stick around for you!!

WB, how many cameras y’all run on the place you help manage? 2500 acres (I think) you mentioned?

Man I should start hunting in Kansas! Hardly any deer left where I hunt.

I have 6 out in my area, my son has 3, the manager has about 10, another hunter has 5. Through all of them we have the entire plantation covered, lol. I just post mine and my son’s pics. The other hunter has a buck who’s main beams turn down that makes it look like a double drop tine. We have some good deer, but we also have the opportunity to let’em grow. Some of these bucks I would’ve already killed on public land, lol. Our county just has good genetics and a bunch of like minded hunter’s around as well. We do have to shoot a ton of does every year though. I’d bet my 27 year old son has killed more deer than Jbyrd and Bucksandbears combined. Notice I didn’t say hunted, just killed. Believe it or not it gets old after a while.

Just as well everyone else does :grin

I hunted Kansas 8 straight years for turkeys and it was always the last week of season…end of May. I was always in AWE of the bucks we’d see in velvet and what they looked like then. We’d discuss what we thought they’d become on the trip home, lol.
And I never realized y’all had as many quail as you had. At that time of year they are paired up and I was flushing pairs every 150yds it seemed like!

How long ago was this? Late 80s early 90s when Crp was just starting was the height of quail population in my life time. My dad talked about back in the 60s being the golden years of quail hunting in Ks

Probably about 2011 - 2018 or 19. I was really in awe of the quail, turkeys, and dove y’all had. It would take us longer to drive out than kill a 2-3 man limit on turkeys.
And at that time, we’d call in coyotes about every other setup for turkeys. We’d also see tons of skunks and coons. Saw my first and only badger out there too. He wasn’t nice! I was heading to a tree to set up and he wanted the same tree…he won and I decided to do a big circle to get another approach on the gobbler, lol!

I finally got a good one on camera. But I probably won’t ever get eyes on him in real life. He might have been bumped into the area by wolves.

Pretty cool looking rack! Maybe he won’t be wolf turds by the time your season opens!!

My brother said he wanted to see if he could target this goofy five pointer. Last year it was a 3 pointer.

We do have a few others that the kids will chase. I will probably focus on reducing the doe population.

Got lots of elk pictures the past couple weeks.

I'm seriously jealous

I know very little about elk, but that looks like a goodun!

That’s 2 different bulls that came into together. Not bad bulls for sure. My wife has an archery tag for here. We have about 20 cameras out. Several nice bulls so far and a giant that I will share pictures of after season.

Got some nice deer there!! Hope the kids get one of those big ones, can’t wait to see the smiles!!

Yeah, the only “bull” elk I’ve seen were early in the antler development stage, but at 10yds they looked huge! Good luck with the undisclosed bull!

First time pictures of these two.

Little guy is still around…was worried the depredation shooters got him.

Nice piebald. Maybe he will survive a year or 2 longer.

Be really cool if in 2 years at 4.5 he made P&Y. Of course if he does some growing between now and then he’ll probably live to see 5.5 - 6.5

We’ll see what peanuts and corn does for growth. Almost tempted to start a mineral site down in there.

Finally getting something on the cameras besides doe and fawns. Nothing to write home about but maybe a couple shooters.

Every morning… Every evening.

Guessing deer reuse the same bedding spot, lol.

Those 2 like that clean shady hammock.

Would love to see this pattern continue another month.



Picked up a new Tactacam Reveal X Pro today from Cabelas. Onsale and got a coupon for trading in an old Muddy camera I don't use anymore, $105 out the door. Going to mess around with it this weekend and maybe upgrade some of our other cameras. The pic above is from a SpyPoint link micro or something like that. Pics aren't great but 100 pics each month for free is hard to complain about.

Good looking deer and lots of green in that pic!

Thought we’d gotten rid of most of these guys, guess not. We call these our Texas Wannabe’s, lol. They’re wide like a Texas deer, they just never get the tine length like a Texas deer.

This was last year, don’t know if I have a problem this year or not. I caught these 9 and one more and the neighbor shot 14 more.

Good Lawd! Don’t think I’ve seen that many coyotes not trapped in one picture.

Good article on trail cam use to single out a mature buck.

It's about a 15 min read....but pretty good.

https://deerassociation.com/15-trail-camera-lessons-learned-from-thousands-of-unique-bucks/

Thats a good read, thanks.

Swamp, y’all get any of that rain?

Got 3 tenths of an inch on the Turner County farm.

But, that rain line didn't make it this far south down here at the state line. I'm glad it didnt...we're still wet...even on the hill. All the bottoms remain full.

This was the cleacut in the riverbottom last week. The river is just behind the trees at the far backside of that "lake." River is back in its banks now and still dropping.

We only ended up with 1.3” but really needed it. Still didn’t get the main pond to its overflow, but did add some to the wet weather holes and created a few mud puddles. Our cover rows on the dove field will definitely benefit from it. Went riding right at daylight this morning and saw plenty of deer and dove in the dove fields. Saw 8 Tom’s (gobblers and jakes) together up front. And 2 gobblers and 2 jakes together in the back. Saw some hens and poults in the small pines but couldn’t get a count. Everything was active this morning except hogs!

Not a big one but the first hard horn buck.

Must have been trying for a selfie. It was inside a Cam loc box.

Ours still hanging on to that velvet. Not even seeing any starting to shed it yet or any rubs.

River-bottom bears....near the Ga-Fl line.

Hard-antlered. Right on time for here...mid-August....

Everyone is still holding on to their velvet over here…
Don’t know if this is the 8 from last year or not? If so he’s grown a lot, if not I like him.

That 8 is nice! Body features = older buck.

But..his tarsals dont even have any old staining.

Somewhere in Swamp Wolfs part of the world

Deep south Georgia??

Actually it’s probably long ways from you. Just way closer than me. Little over hour out of Atlanta. Have shown up for four nights in row. It’s my friends camera but he’s up here at moment and I’m in middle of years honey extraction so they are safe. Seems they show up for few days in row normally but then won’t be any for 6-8 weeks. I know guy within mile of there traps them so I’d venture a guess that could be why

I'm 4 hrs from Atlanta...so that closer to WannaBe.

Hogs are all over the Peach State.

It’s interesting to me as we don’t have them but buddy swears at them. Says they destroy every food plot he has in and the deer become less plentiful.

Can't plant any deer plot with hogs around. Can't even disk up a plot to prepare to plant.....they'll come to that fresh dirt and take over. Root it so bad that you'll about turn the tractor over...lol

Here's a few from last week...

Looks like you need to get after them!!

Swamp how often do you get pictures or see bears in your area ?

Depends on where my cameras are. If they're on deer corn or a feeder, it's common. If cameras are on a deer trail or scrape, I rarely get a pic. I see their tracks regularly from late spring to early winter.

It's always seasonal....like in other areas. Late summer and fall here is when they shift over into the river bottoms from the vast piney flatwoods swamp area that lies to the east of me. It's a food source thing....hunters putting out deer corn, filling deer feeders, and thousands of acres of live oak acorns along the sandy river bottom....all at once in early fall.

If the palmetto bushes in the flatwoods make berries, we don't see many bears over along the river as the berries ripen in early fall. The flatwoods area covers several counties in southeast Ga & northeast Fl and extends to and includes the Okefenokee Swamp (which is a 700 sq mile NWR and is the core of our bear population down here.

Yeah, y’all keep them things over there on your side of the State!! It’s bad enough one roams through every other year, lol!
As far as the hogs, I guess I know where are pigs went, lol. I did get a few pics on the dove field last night about 0130 or so, but I was sleeping. We’re burning tomorrow so that’ll run them off from there for a while. I’ve noticed they don’t like fresh burns. Not saying that’s scientific or anything, just what I’ve noticed at our place over the years. Now once things green up again they’ll get back in those areas.
But, the good news is I’ll have a field or fields to do some calling in. Coyotes do like burns.

For sure. Those hog pics are on a lease that's about 100 miles north of my home. Dont get up there much when it's hot weather...but that's about to change with bow season approaching....but, then I'll be after a mature buck and not wanting to shoot a stinkin' hog in a good buck spot....but I likely will arrow a couple or three.

Maybe even shoot a few with the thermal scope & .300BO.

Been hunting that property three years......we've killed only 21 hogs (3 of us).....

Is that Turner Co?

Hogs are in Turner County.

Bears are in Echols County.

Yeah I knew the bears weren’t, lol. A little too close for comfort!!

Girl fight!!!

Poults coming along nicely. Seem to be keeping to hens and 7 poults around pretty consistent.

Always good to see poults!!

Blue barrels and blue buckets…I’m starting to see the connection!

A pic of absolutely nothing…but notice the temperature!!!! Man it felt good this morning!

More clean antlers...

So I guess you’re starting to see rubs over that way.

Just a better pic of the tank of an 8…and tank refers to body, not antlers. I do believe he’s mature enough, lol.

Yeah....no doubt!

Kill him!

This guy showed up again last night. Not the biggest buck in the area, but sure is a dandy!

No clean antlers here yet, but I did catch Mr coyote coming by with his dinner. He was out hunting the next morning so it couldn’t have been too good.

Haven't looked from foot yet. But, been on tractor for over 40 hours last week...didn't seen any near roads, access paths, or plot edges....but they're there.

Headed up to Turner County tract this coming weekend to mow (so I can walk a clean path to a bow stand without getting on a diamondback.)

What critter has the coyote got?

Groundhog?

What dose this one look like . it looked pretty nice to me.

The coloring in that leg/foot leads me to believe opossum thus my comment about not a very good meal. But I will admit it is not the best pic. We have all kinds of mice, voles, squirrels, woodchucks, and rabbits so not sure why he would even pick up an opossum unless the youngster’s appetite has wore him down.

I love how the coyote in the morning picture uses the shade and shadows from the soybeans as he travels.

That joker must be really hungry to be eating a possum.

Swamp, better take your rifle and get some of those piggies. Doubt y’all got many snakes around with that many pigs. The manager even made mention he’s seen a lot more snakes this year due to our lack of swine.

Two good bo'hogs this morning...one min apart....same trail.




Headed up to this property this Sunday for a couple days of lease maintenance (camp area and road/access mowing.) Gettin' the place ready for bowhunting access (Sept 14th opener)...

Hard horn here

Good boar hog my son in law got on my place.

WC,
Ol' nasty boar there.

Most bucks everywhere are hard-horned by November 15th......lol

Haha - hadnt even noticed the date on that camera - need to change that!😉

VOLUME UP.

You should step between them and stop the fighting!!!

Is that a boar and a cub?

Swamp Wolf I’ve got a buddy that lived on the NC coast and says those bear do not hibernate. You being further south , do you see the same thing with active bears year round ?

That is correct. They don't hibernate, but they do go into a state of torpor (lethargy) in winter here. Laying up in bigger swamps and larger tracts of roadless timber where they have less chance of being disturbed. On warmer days, they may move around a bit, but usually from late December to late March...bears "vanish" down here.

Occasionally, I see bear sign on into January, but it's rare. And, by the full moon in April...they are all active again.

Yep...that's why those yearling males leave their momma as yearlings and look for a new area...one without a mature boar.

One with clean antlers finally came by the camera tonight.

3 horned elk. Had a 3 horned one 2 years ago also bigger than this one.

A boar and a yearling. It's rough out there for them.

Thanks

Going to be a tough decision in 2 weeks when deer bow opens if I haven't filled my bear tag yet if this guys keeps showing up during the day.

Headed up to this tract tommorrow.

Got the Ruger .300 synced with the AGM Rattler thermal scope this morning.

Gonna be bush-hogging roads and access trails for next 2 days...but a couple hogs might bite the bullet(s).

This morning....

Good luck!! Can’t wait to see some videos!

I'd of like to of seen this rodeo in person

What exactly am I looking at? Just a plastic bag? Wind maybe? Can’t come up with a scenario where this might happen, lol.

It's actually a 6 foot long plastic bag that net wrap for a round baler comes in. Not sure how it happened. In pics it looks to me like his antler might actually be stuck through the bag. I bet it was wild there for awhile

From my back yard. I have a simple gravity deer feeder out of PVC filled with corn. Also a bit of corn dumped on ground in front of the camera too.
Way more fun than a little bird feeder.

This wasn’t from this year, but a few years back we had one heck of a buck fight in our back yard at the corn pile.
Jim

Some cool backyard pics for sure!!

About 30 minutes b4 I got there with the tractor..


1330 hrs to dark on the NH....I'm a little tired.

Start again tommorrow.....

Young deer i let walk last year as an 11 but would probably be too much temptation for me to pass this year

Nice deer!!

Yes Sir..., Yes Please.

Ohh!!

Very good buck there Yessir!!!

Yes sir, you in the part of KS that gets on all them big time tv shows? Not sure how your state lays out relative to big buck areas.

8 and 10 pt coming through er’ evening and most mornings. Got a bachelor group of 8 or so still hanging strong. anticipating a break up in the next few weeks.

Gunnleg,
That is def a shooter!

Gotta get to Oct Swamp. Can’t wait my friend.

Early AM pic

Figured I’d drop one more for you and WB…

Poults are doing well!

There really are big bucks from one end of the state to the other. I personally believe it would be hard to say what part of the state is best. Some areas have more deer than others but there's still big bucks there. I've seen a few hunting celebrities in my area but a lot of the shows are filmed further south and west of me were there's more guides and outfitters.

Always like seeing poults and nice deer!!

Yes Sir, I’ve seen some Kansas mounts and sheds while out there, I know y’all grow some big one! Seen a guys rattling antlers that were over 160” too. Sounded like 4x6’s when clanking them together. I was turkey hunting NW of you.

A couple bucks that will be hard to let walk but hope they make it another year. Just applied for my bobcat tag yesterday, starting to get more and more on camera.Good luck everyone this hunting season!

After the mowing...

Still ain’t seen a hog killin’ video.

Just got off tractor. All mowing is done. I'm dog tired. Too tired to do any walking and looking for hogs.

Saw 7 pigs yesterday and 1 pig today from tractor. Also saw a polished off 2 yr old 10pt and a crooked 8 pt, and a velvet small 8pt. They always let the tractor get right up on em.

1000 acres with roads and firebreaks all over it. It's ready to hunt now!

Just got a shower. About to head over to Ashburn for some quick supper.

Gonna do some cell camera rearranging in the morning...then head back home by noon.

Will be back next week to put out some sd card cameras. Also to prep some stand locations.

Hadn’t seen’t this one yet. These cell cams are addicting.

Ole boy still hanging on to his velvet and is coming in about the same time every day, lol.

Had this buck show up bleeding, lol.

Have got pics of 3 different bucks in Turner County past couple days (this is best one, so far)....all of em velvet off.

I was baiting one of my bear stands last night caught some eye shine with my headlamp. Had a cub at 25 yards that wouldn't take a hint, even though I had the 4 wheeler idling right behind me. Decided I'd rather bait in the morning.

Yeah, I think I’d wait too, lol!

Buddy not far from me sent this to me. Hopefully will still be around at the end of Dec. would love to catch it.

Lol that’s hilarious!!

I bait during day light hours only! And I’m still scared lol.

Started shedding velvet this week and a new buck showed up

Yeah, once they shed that velvet is generally when some bucks will leave and unknowns will show up! One of mine has disappeared already.

you never know what will show up in the yard.







or at a bear bait

Are those coyotes and Fishers at the bear bait?

10-4

dog can sniff out a fox

Well, so much for the possibility of a velvet buck…

WB… I feel horrible for ya

I don’t believe I’ve seen one outta velvet yet or seen any rubs. Should be any day for us now.

2 more days GUNNLEG. They always rub on the 15th of September!

My best two bucks so far

Checking out my homemade lure and bait, but I don't think he got any bait, coons already took it.

Nice deer

Yeah best deer I've ever caught on trailcam. Pretty good size for Missouri. Also, as far as velvet goes, about half of my bucks on trail cam have shed and that 11 is one of the few that hasn't. I haven't got a pic of that 10 this week so I don't know whether it has.

Little better pics of a buck I posted on here earlier

Good Lawd! Man I hope you get a chance at him!! I’d love to see some closeup pics of you holding his rack!! Good luck!!

Unfortunately neighbor sent me those better pics of him. He arrowed him this evening but hasn't been able to find him. If he pulls though I might get a Crack at him later if I don't fill my tag with a muley first

Whew!!! 200+" deer!

I hope neighbor finds him...if he died.

What should I name this one? Pretty easy to identify as it looks like he has a white cast on his front leg.

Not many deer because of these pesky critters moving in

Sock's!

Yep, that keeps the deer more alert....