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Would it be a good idea to move the camera next time I check them since I know where my Stand is going and to keep them from being spooked?

Cameras have made me sit a spot when the deer really were nocturnal I think.

I haven't had any luck hunting scrapes. Rub lines are a different story though. Bottom line is... Be in the woods a lot during hinting season because it can and does happen fast.

do you have only one camera?

I always heard that deer hunting is a lot like beating off, as soon as you shoot, you have a mess on your hands. miles

No. I have two working at the moment.

I'd for sure leave one in the original location and then attempt to discover his other travels..

again, rubber boots and latex gloves...

Contrary to popular belief, you will not push a buck out of his core territory.

Studies have confiormed that he will return again and again after being pressured out of an area, usually within a 24 hour period.

Pressure may change the way he approaches and moves in an area and that can make him much more difficult to hunt, but you won't run him out of it if it's part of what he considers his home range.

Use a little common sense when checking cams and you'll be fine. I've had the cameras take pics of me putting out cattle feed and then snap a series of pics of good bucks feeding 20 minutes after I had left the area.

When it comes to nocturnal deer my patience has a limit. If I have good intel on a buck's bedding area and he won't show during daylight hours, I get on the phone and within a day or two a group of us conduct a good old fashioned deer drive.

Du? Ever seen a bar close at noon!

I bet they will slip up come first of Nov, just gotta be there when they do.

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I've killed two of my best deer with the bow on Nov 1st. Exactly 10 years apart. 1st one was in a blizzard in '97 and the second was a cool fall evening in '07.

Just the other day I put in for vaction Nov 1st thru the 10th to sit in my stand with the bow before the orange pumpkins make them all nocturnal. Don't get me wrong, I'm an orange pumpkin most years too but our party dissolved so I mostly just bow hunt and muzzleload. November 1st has been a magical time to be in the stand.

The deer dont go hardcore nocturnal until the dreaded plague of "The Threes" occurres:

1. lard assed hunters on four wheelers
2. carrot cloaked clones in full body orange armor
3. centerfire hunters brown-downing the 'tang leaker' buck-bait does

Hunt the does, because your buck will be doing the same that time of yr. November is a magical time of yr to be in the woods.

Hunt the does is great way to kill a "good" buck. To kill a truly "great" buck it is counter-productive. These deer are the real "loners" and do not act like other deer at all.

It is truly an "all or nothing" game with the really big boys. You will see few (or no) deer in the areas where the big boys live.....but the pay-off is great.

This is a tough way to hunt if you want to show your buddies how "good" you are every year. It will be a once-in-5 years type reward.....but the total reward will be worth it.

Is it normal for the bucks to just disappear for a while? Talked to a couple guys with cams in area and adjoining lands and in the last 3 weeks no body has a cam pic of a buck in the same locations they were all over previously. It was a bit of a let down to see no big boys in the pics.

Sure is around me. Might have something to do with cheaters starting to "scout" by putting corn on the ground and driving thier ATVs along the fence lines.