Guest Heter32 Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 I have several large bucks on trail cam. Some at day light but some are an hour before. Anyone have ideas on how to get the deer out at shooting times? Especially the first week, because I am off work! Sept 27 opening day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan Givan Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 I am having the same problem as well this year. Try to set over the trails they use going from bed to feed. Closer to the bed in the morning, and closer to the feed in the evening. Alot of times, they will move through at legal shooting light. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 Here's what I did last year to bring in a monster buck that I knew was in the area by the rubs and scraps that I had found but never saw him any time before. When it got to be legal shooting light out, I took my Truetalker grunt call and softly, I mean softly, grunted about 5 times. Within just a few minutes the buck was at one of the scraps that I was posted up on. He walked down the trail right in front of me, of course I was about 20 ft. up a tree in a climbing stand, I drew back on him released the arrow.............which flew right over his back! But I knew that I was hunting an active scrap/rub line and was close to his bedding area. I think the soft grunts right at daylight (legal light of course) was the trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bowhunter56 Posted September 19, 2008 Report Share Posted September 19, 2008 Just put your time in...and you may be rewarded.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted September 20, 2008 Report Share Posted September 20, 2008 the big bucks are noctournal. you might get lucky with a cool cloudy day, or a light rain or snow. hunt early legal hours or hunt him in his bedroom, which is not usually a good idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazylegz70 Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 I am going to post this with a WARNING... Alot of what I have learned is that if a deer is on cam before shooting time or after you just simply pattern where he is coming from (by using cam) and simply get closer to his bedding area. HOWEVER, this can be a problem because 1) he might be bedded off of the property you are hunting 2) YOU DO NOT want to get too close to his bedding area and spook him. If you spook him out of it you risk him not coming back in my opinion... just my opinion.... also, if you want to read an article about how to do this, North American whitetail magazine has a great story of how a guy did this and some strategies for patterning with a cam.....It is the August Issue from 2008. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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