Trail cam Pic's or Video

[pointerdog]

The first pic is the "all natural" scrape.. 2nd is natural too:) beets n corn

[sticknstring]

[DonBo]

Sweet catch there Matt.

[1eyeReD]

Awesome vid Stick. Which reminds me of a question I've always wanted to ask.

Why the heck do commercial buck grunt calls sound so deep and low in tone while real bucks sound like the "ribbit" of a frog?

I've heard bucks grunting before in the field and I've heard them on video. Small bucks, average bucks and some bigger bucks (in the field were mainly just small bucks and some average). Not that I hear them all the time, but I've heard real grunts several times in my last few seasons. I even try to Youtube some vids of grunting bucks quite a bit to see how they sound. The ones I've heard all sound higher pitched than the calls I tote around the woods?

[bltbowhunter]

I think that the older the buck, the deeper the grunt. That has been my experience this year so far. About an hour apart last week, I had 2 different bucks come by within 15 yds of me grunting with almost every step at the doe that they were tailing. The first one was a young fork and he had a higher pitch grunt. The second one that came through looked like a 3 year old 8 and his grunt seemed to be a significantly lower pitch. I wish I would've gotten video of it, but I couldn't get my phone out in time.

A lot of grunt calls are made to sound like an older more dominant buck. The one I have gets a higher pitch sound when you squeeze it. When I'm trying to grunt a smaller buck over, I squeeze it to make it higher pitch. I don't want him to think that a more dominant buck is in the area and spook him.

[sticknstring]

I agree - they must targeting IA hunters. I think a lot of the calls come set on mature buck setting. My Slam Talker did. It's a little deeper than I prefer so I usually tone it down a bit. The deeper pitch does carry through the woods better though.

Checked my main scrape cam with high hopes today after a two week soak. Pretty disappointing card pull with just a handful of yearlings. Last year I had 10+ bucks here with several age classes. Not a good sign for upcoming seasons.

This dude worked the cedar branch for over 10 minutes. Switch to 1080p for best quality.

[totally_addicted]

SNS,

Does the recent development East of your one hunting area bode well for that woods or does it hurt that spot? I noticed 3 or 4 houses going up in that country development recently. That little island woods used to be a honey hole and now there are houses all the way around it.

[sticknstring]

Getting worse every year! I've mainly hunted public this year.

[1eyeReD]

Getting worse every year! I've mainly hunted public this year.

I keep telling myself to try hunting some of the public in your county, but have failed to do so for several seasons now. One year I even scouted a WMA pretty hard and found tons of sign and kicked up plenty of deer, but never came back during the season. Oh well, at least there's good ice fishing out there

[mrklean]

There are some nice chunks up there wish i would have hunted them more when i lived there

[sticknstring]

Fawn gets a nostril full of some James Valley scent 15 min after I left the stand...

[DonBo]

Great stuff S&S. That's pretty funny right there. Love how he looks around at the end to make sure nobody saw him.

[totally_addicted]

I know this pic isn't good, but it is a good sign he made it through the opening weekend of gun season. You can't see much of his rack, but his body is big and what you can see looks outside the ears.

[slimngrizzly]

He looks very nice! Good to see he made it!

Neat videos stick!

[sticknstring]

That's a nice one TA! These guys are looking tastier & tastier by the day and better hope I don't allow a practice draw from the stand to go wrong!

[certified jumbo]

Stick - I really like your videos. I see it says buschnell. What is full name of your cam? Do you like it?

[sticknstring]

Thanks - I really like them.

The two bucks are from a 2013 Trophy Cam HD Max 119576c and the doe & fawn are from a 2013 NatureView 119439. I've got a few 2012 TC HD MAX 119476c's that I like a lot too.

Let me know if you need anything more specific re the camera specs!

[mrklean]

Couple metro bucks

[certified jumbo]

Cool vid's guys. Thanks stick for the info....

Here are a few bucks that we think made it through season. Have a whole bunch of them still running around.....

[certified jumbo]

Some more.....

[sticknstring]

I'd be pretty happy to see most any of those right about now! At least these little guys continue to entertain me. Still chasing anything that moves...

[MUSKY18]

Well I know that one nice buck evaded the orange army and is still walking around my woods. Haven't seen this particular buck since right before rut started but I got him on my camera twice this week. Too bad it is always in the middle of the night. Maybe with the Smokepole hunters hitting the woods this weekend, he might more during daylight. Hoping to find out tomorrow.

[pointerdog]

Good to see a few made it through gun season

[sticknstring]

3 nice bucks right there. How'd your season go pointerdog?

[pointerdog]

It was good. Tagged out in early sept. with a velvet buck. Here's a pic of him from last year. Only got one of him this year in late July.