Creamer's 2020 trail cam pics

[Creamer]

I hung a pair of cameras on some public land and gave them a short soak (1 week). In the same area, early last fall, I found a bachelor group in one area and I was hoping they were back there now in the summer. I hung the cameras THP style, and hid them well because I walked by both of them when I went back to retrieve them yesterday. I got a few bucks on camera, nothing huge.

This young buck I got on both cameras.

I got one pic of this deer, big body and decent mass in the head gear. Short tined, though, from what I can tell.

Not a stellar week of pics, but it was a start. I'm going to re-deploy sometime in the next few days.

 

[bowhunter1023]

Better than pictures of leaves!

 

[Spencie]

As hot as it's been I don't think they are moving much. I had a slow week too.

 

[giles]

Pretty small window as well.

 

[Creamer]

Pretty small window as well.

That spot is a little hub. Two trails paralleling the bench come together and another trail pops up from over the hill.

 

[Creamer]

I picked up a Spypoint Cell Link. It's set up and working pretty good with one of my Wildgame cameras. I also got a couple of other cameras set up and prepped a couple of saddle setups. It's too hot for that shit but it has to get done.

 

[Creamer]

Not a bad start for night 1.

There was a large community scrape here last fall. I cleared it out and pissed in it. The buck skirted past it, but the doe...

 

[Creamer]

I guess both a blessing and a curse of a cell camera is real-time feedback. The spot where I had this camera was new to me, and a location where I expected more activity in the early fall when the nuts start dropping. Almost 4 consecutive days of 0 photos was all I could handle. I went in and moved it to a better summer spot this morning where I expect more activity right now. I did confirm the camera was still working, because it snapped me walking in.

 

[giles]

From my experience, a deers area is very small right now. Don’t get discouraged!

 

[Creamer]

From my experience, a deers area is very small right now. Don’t get discouraged!

It didn't help that I didn't have the most confidence in that location right now. I know it's an area they'll use in early fall, but I was on the fence about right now. I didn't move it far, I just put it in an area that has produced more consistent pics this time of year in more of a travel pinch.

 

[giles]

Nice cool bottom with some flowing water...place a cam between there and the thicket on the point. Let’s get excited and do this!!!!! Quit playing around

 

[Creamer]

It's been a slow few days with the cameras. I did get this buck on the Cell Link setup:

I pulled a camera behind the house, by a creek crossing. A few does and a fawn. I pulled two cameras that were on public for about a 12 day stay...0 deer photos. None. The one camera I thought for sure would get some activity I think was 1 trail off. I hung on the first established trail in the bottom I found. I pushed a few yards deeper today when I pulled and found a parallel trail with lots of fresh tracks.

Oh well. I know where they'll be in short order.

 

[Creamer]

I had moved my Cell Link setup, and on literally Day 1, I got this peculiar photo.

Now, I'm hanging cameras high and wedging them down to discourage theft. My assumption was the wedge failed. I hate being right.

The limb you see there fell and popped the wedge out (it was a flat chunk of rock).

On the good news side of things, I located this deer on public.

 

[giles]

Have you practiced shooting under pressure yet?

 

[MoonLab]

Nice looking buck

 

[Creamer]

Have you practiced shooting under pressure yet?

Nothing in the woods has ever come easy for me. I'm used to pressure.

 

[Creamer]

Was it a good idea to go in and fix that camera when I suspected my wedge got knocked out?

Yes.

I'm pretty sure this is the biggest deer I had on camera last year on this chunk of public. Nice to see him again.

 

[Creamer]

Here's the deer last year I think was him.

 

[Creamer]

It's amazing how much time a place that's pressured seems to have to "cool down" after you intrude. I got one deer picture in the first 6 days after I was into this place. In the last 24 hours, 9 photos, 3 different bucks, one sure-fire shooter.

 

[Creamer]

I pulled a public land camera this morning off a 2-week soak. It's a subtle little spot where I shot a doe with the recurve last year and didn't recover her (1st deer I shot at with a trad bow). There's a slight saddle in the ridge that connects an oak flat to bedding. Lots of deer pics, no shooter bucks but a few different young bucks on camera.