The weather report on March 6 predicted snow during the night. That was right. The deer traffic was extra heavy out in front of my BuckEye Cam and it took 359 pictures. Here are ones that are representative of what went on in the very cold 24 hour period from Thursday to Friday afternoons.
They say people get a little crazy on the full moon. The pictures on the BuckEye Cam during the last full moon show that deer can get a little crazy too.
If the sun hadn't been so bright I would not have noticed the bedded buck. I had a game camera and a real camera with me and was on the way to put the game camera at the Rolled Wire deer crossing and, bingo, there was a buck ... bedded down.
It's a surprise buck party and the BuckEye Cam game camera beamed over their pictues via wireless transmission right to my laptop at home. I can't believe all these deer showed up on the first day I put the camera out. Indeed, life is good in the February deer woods.
I think after season scouting is very important. It tells us what shape the deer herd is in. And it lets us know what bucks are still in our area. To help me do that BuckEye Cam supplied me with a Wireless Infra-Red unit. I set it up near my food plot and scattered protein pellets on the ground in the camera's view. I put the camera out on February 16 at 4:45 in the afternoon. In less than an hour we got our first picture. Let's check them out.
My neighbor Perry Wicker came over to visit and noticed 2 deer by my practice targets. Perry hid and took these pictures of an 8-point hanging out with a doe -- right by my house -- in late Januuary!
At 10:00 I was ready to go. I put my video and digital cameras in their cases and glanced around. Antlers were showing above the high weeds to the north of the food plot. I slowly unzipped its case and took out the digital camera. At 10:10am the first picture came down. It was an 8-point and a very good looking buck. It fed around in the food plot until 10:21 and left to the south. It was very exciting to see this buck and if I hadn't stayed a little longer I would have missed him.
I set up a Double Bull blind and a Bushnell digital game camera a couple hundred yards from the Rolled Wire stand. We'll call it the Rolled Wire Annex. It was cold and sleeting most of the first night but the camera was on the job and picked up a new buck and some interesting activity.