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tonyrittenhouse · Feb 18, 2017

A realtive of mine has been telling me all year that we needed to stay home and hunt instead of going off hunting. They would tell me they had been seeing deer in the yard. I would look around in the yard and not see any tracks. I grew up my entire life at this place and would run the woods when I was a kid. I never saw any deer or any sign of a deer. Then right after deer season closed my dad was going out their driveway and he had a big 8 point run out in front of him. Then a couple of days later he saw a bigger 8 point. Well, last week I decided to take a walk on their property and found a large rub and a fresh scrape. So, I scattered about 5 pounds of corn and put two trail cams up. Boy, was I surprised I got 4 different bucks and 3 doe in just 5 days. I did not get any pic's of any big bucks yet but my they swear there are two really big eights there somewhere. I guess I found a new place to hunt 100 yards from the back door.

cr00241 · Feb 18, 2017

Now you don't have to get up as early to make it to the stand in time.

95g atl · Feb 19, 2017

x2. I see more deer AND have bigger deer on my small tract here in the burbs, than my hunting lease.
But something about the lease property and people that makes me go back

EAGLE EYE 444 · Feb 19, 2017

Tony,

You have some great photos for sure.

You have now spoiled yourself entirely since you have introduced the trail cameras onto your homestead property. It is obvious that you do have some fine deer all around you and they have been there for probably several years as well.

I was spoiled back about 6 years ago when I started back deer hunting after not hunting for 10 years during my late wife's illness. I still had all of my guns etc but it took 4 years after she died before I actually wanted to hunt again. Loosing the desire of wanting to hunt during that period of time was hard to admit since I had previously hunted all types of wild game since I was just a kid. This is when I first began to use trail cameras and it opened up a whole different world for me. I was amazed the very first time that I pulled the cards from my cameras on my property. There were deer everywhere it seemed and several really nice bucks frequently traveled all over it. There were also some wild hogs back then as well along with coyotes, raccoons, possums, squirrels, rabbits, turkeys, doves, hawks, owls, ducks, armadillos, and a fox or two during this period of time.

I try my best to check my cameras each week when I can and I currently have 33 cameras in the woods and I actually own a total of 52 WGI cameras now. I know that I am totally crazy for spending so much money this way BUT I enjoy doing it and it has become an expensive hobby for me. I try to offset that by not playing very much golf anymore. I really enjoy watching the wildlife on my cameras more than I do actually deer hunting. I try my best to pick out a decent buck that I have actually watched over the past few years and and if I have the right opportunity to harvest him, I will, but if I don't, that is alright too.

I hope that you will continue to enjoy your newfound capabilities with trail cameras as it does make you want to spend even more time in the woods observing all of nature's creatures.

Please keep posting photos of various wildlife that are on your property as it is relaxing to see them in their natural environment.

tonyrittenhouse · Feb 19, 2017

Yea, I got addicted to trail cams about 4 or 5 years ago. I used them on my lease. But, unfortunately it got sold this year. I just never put them out were I live because I will be honest. There was just not any deer there a couple of years ago. I don't know were they have came from but I'm going to do my best to keep them in the area. Here are a couple of pic's from the lease that I lost. I'm going to miss hunting that property. I hope you enjoy looking at a few of the pic's I saved.

Wanderlust · Feb 19, 2017

Nice pics. Sorry you lost your lease,some nice deer there. I was feeding deer in my backyard but it drove my beagles crazy. Had enough of the barking at all hours of the night.

bfriendly · Feb 21, 2017

EAGLE EYE 444 said:
Tony,

You have some great photos for sure.

You have now spoiled yourself entirely since you have introduced the trail cameras onto your homestead property. It is obvious that you do have some fine deer all around you and they have been there for probably several years as well.

I was spoiled back about 6 years ago when I started back deer hunting after not hunting for 10 years during my late wife's illness. I still had all of my guns etc but it took 4 years after she died before I actually wanted to hunt again. Loosing the desire of wanting to hunt during that period of time was hard to admit since I had previously hunted all types of wild game since I was just a kid. This is when I first began to use trail cameras and it opened up a whole different world for me. I was amazed the very first time that I pulled the cards from my cameras on my property. There were deer everywhere it seemed and several really nice bucks frequently traveled all over it. There were also some wild hogs back then as well along with coyotes, raccoons, possums, squirrels, rabbits, turkeys, doves, hawks, owls, ducks, armadillos, and a fox or two during this period of time.

I try my best to check my cameras each week when I can and I currently have 33 cameras in the woods and I actually own a total of 52 WGI cameras now. I know that I am totally crazy for spending so much money this way BUT I enjoy doing it and it has become an expensive hobby for me. I try to offset that by not playing very much golf anymore. I really enjoy watching the wildlife on my cameras more than I do actually deer hunting. I try my best to pick out a decent buck that I have actually watched over the past few years and and if I have the right opportunity to harvest him, I will, but if I don't, that is alright too.

I hope that you will continue to enjoy your newfound capabilities with trail cameras as it does make you want to spend even more time in the woods observing all of nature's creatures.

Please keep posting photos of various wildlife that are on your property as it is relaxing to see them in their natural environment.

That is a bunch of Cameras and I cannot think of anything better for you to do with your time! I could easily feel your pain and your joy within your short story. I have one camera that I "Used to" put in the back yard over corn..............I had lots of Deer even though most were small, I have a photo with 5 bucks in the same shot

I know how much joy that gave me as well as many other photos of Deer. We watched a couple fawns grow up in the next door neighbors yard. the yard was NEVER Mowed and was fenced in-Genius! We watched them their first two years growing up with momma via my 1 trail cam. I would love to see many more of your photos as I am sure you have some gems!

Sounds like you could do a great story book with actual research and thousands of photos chronicling events......

I think what you are doing is AWESOME!

Wanderlust said:
Nice pics. Sorry you lost your lease,some nice deer there. I was feeding deer in my backyard but it drove my beagles crazy. Had enough of the barking at all hours of the night.

Notice I said I "used to" have a TC in my backyard...........new neighbors and a dog chased them all away. I started getting more photos of the mangy dog than deer so once the batteries died, I never replaced

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