shaunandjulie

nice finds. soon as this snow melts a little im gonna have to get out and look

Anyone finding any sheds yet in the Southern Il area? Haven't had a chance to get out and start looking yet. Thanks.

Yea I know all of the sign should be gone but within the last week I've had a buck rubbing on three different trees around my food plot as well as cleaning out a scrape. Just thought it was awful weird to see this late in the season. One of the rubs is on a tree the size of my leg. Both are fresh because I had checked the area last week and now theres shaving below the tree from where he has rubbed on them again.

Hey, I had a question. I live in Illinois and I've never noticed bucks making new rubs and refreshing scrapes this late in the year. Is anyone else seeing this as well or have I just not came across any previously? Thanks

I hunt a lot at Rend Lake area which is all public hunting. I saw about 9 shooter bucks before season started, and haven't saw any of them yet since season started. I had a small 9 pointer about 100" is the biggest I've saw. Found about 30 rubs the week before season and have found some newer ones in the last week. I haven't found a single scrape yet though. Good luck to you guys in the coming weeks

I've found plenty of rubs but no scrapes in the area yet. I am thinking the same thing that it will start picking up here in the next week or so.

layin the smackdown, I agree. Don't know what part of Illinois you are in, but my parents live down in Cypress and they saw one down there last year on the side of a cornfield.

Oops I put Wildview in the original message, I meant Wildgame Innovations, sorry. To me this is a terrible camera, its really bad on battery life and takes bad night pictures. I like my older stealthcam thats like a 2002 model way better

Very unfortunate. I'd be having it looked at though to see why it did it in the first place. I bought my girlfriend a new Diamond bow from Bass Pro this year and we got it home and started shooting it, and it was shooting really bad off past ten yards. After going through two sites and realizing that it wasn't the site I noticed that the cam was cutting into the string. We had to take it all the way back to St. Louis, 2 1/2 hours away and they fixed it.

Yeah the moultrie and the bushnell were two of the three I was considering, as well as the stealthcam sniper.

I'm wanting to buy another trail camera. I have an old StealthCam that takes the 35mm film and a Wildview 5.0. I don't really care for the picture quality of the Wildview, my older StealthCam takes much better pictures. What brand do you guys suggest? I want one that takes good day and night pictures, preferably IR. Thanks.

Which do you guys prefer using?

Haha that was good!

Wow that thing is huge....Would love to see better pics if/when you get them

I'd take the second one incase its a genetic issue, so he doesn't pass it along

Yea I used to drag race sportbikes. I had a 02 GSXR 600. Don't currently have one but really wanna get back into it

Thanks.

yea that's what I'm thinking. It's my girlfriends first year bowhunting. I figured if nothing else it would be a nice deer to take as her first buck. I myself would give him another year or two

Thanks, it's our first year actually trying it. It's the evolved harvest throw and grow with some cow peas mixed in with it

Nice post Stinger Hunter. Very informative. I was actually just wondering about the whole full moon thing today. It dropped down into the mid 30's here in Southern Illinois this morning, but its a full moon and I didn't see a single deer. I hadn't done enough research on the moon phases to see how the moon effected them. Thanks.

Wow really nice deer Jakapr. Def hard one to pass on, but will be much nicer next year.

yea i didn't think about the ability to get practically anything off of youtube. Thats just where I had uploaded them to. And it's no biggie, I just hate "Fake" people who post things that they aren't actually experiencing or have filmed. I definetely don't want to be put in a category with people that have to lie about things to get responses out of others.

another video I got out of the same field the big mainframe 8 pointer was in.

posted the video this pic came from on youtube for those who doubted the authenticity. Search Big mainframe 8 pointer. It's under username sdhgixxer05. It's me and a friend of mine talking in the background. Check it out