2014/11/14 16:44:16
DarDys
Alt told you that would happen.
2014/11/14 17:41:40
ChromeBandit412
Good luck tomorrow guys. Anyone going for bear archery next week?
2014/11/14 18:36:30
Dr. Trout
Finally saw a buck in the daylight hours,(during November),  Thursday about 4:35pm.... as I scoped it out I found out it was a SPIKE ... just my luck ...
 
Although I did FINALLY see a nice 8 point chasing a doe on the way to work this morning about  5 miles away from here,  in an Amish pasture field   ... LOL
 
 Tonight I sat as long as I could and saw a small "fawn" and its Mother at 5:45pm.... have these deer never heard of daylight travel ???????????????????????????????
2014/11/14 18:46:25
BeenThereDoneThat.
Not in Amish country Doc.  They do like their venison.
2014/11/14 19:11:58
Dr. Trout
just for kicks ----  here is a cute photo of those two that pass by almost every single night  from dark to about 9pm....
 

2014/11/14 21:11:28
BeenThereDoneThat.
How can anybody want to kill and eat something so cute?  Sorry, nice pictures Doc, that by chance the A-5 your shootin' pictures with?
 
Just brought my A-5 into the house for some cleaning and time change.  Batteries (4-Cs) seem to last a long time and the picture quality is nice.  I'm impressed with the night time trigger and capture range for both, video and stills.  Just last night I caught my first glimpse of a 'yote running around my deer stand while the camera was set for video.  Darn thing triggered the camera from the right about 40 yds out then moved away from the camera but, the video was clear enough to identify that it was a 'yote.  I can honestly say there is but, 2 dislikes I have with the camera and neither are really that big of a deal.  1. I don't care for pictures (many times multiple) of blowing leaves and/or weeds.  2. The reset time for the trigger (1 min.) and/or the number of captures being just one, before reset.  I have a second camera that will fire 1 to 3 shots and reset in as little as 3 seconds.  I sit the A-5 on a tripod which allows for quick and easy moving and/or set-ups especially, in rough terrain and,  where there may not be a tree or fence post.  
 
Like you, I'm not getting much cooperation with a nice shooter showing his face during legal hunting hours but, I sure am getting some nice pictures of what lurks in my back yard at night.  One more day with the bow in the woods then it's off to firearms so there's still time for back strap and baloney.   Being old school I prefer to save my 'antlerless' tag for late archery just in case I don't succeed getting a buck.  Now if a deer still has horns ok or, I see a deer that has lost his horns ok.  Seeing a deer not having horns or the recent loss of horns I gotta think, about how hard the local herd was hit so, maybe.  Last but not least, if all else fails, I have pictures and will only need to find  a good recipe for .......  pictures baloney.
 
Good luck tomorrow, hope to see some 'pictures'.
2014/11/14 21:33:27
Dr. Trout
It's a Moultrie A-8
 
we have them at the hardware for $99.99, I was TIRED of replacing batteries in the wildgame camera every couple of weeks. I've been told it's because of the regular "white" flash at nights eating up batteries.........
 
 
4 "C" batteries in the Moultrie since AUGUST 1st, and I'm averaging 40-50 pictures in 24 hours... and the 25% battery life left light has still not come on !!!
 
I LOVE THIS CAMERA ....
 
Like you I wish I did not get so many pictures of blowing leaves .. photos of nothing after a squirrel trips the camera and disappears and blowing branches also set it off....
 
 
The one thing I  HATE about it is the directions say to NEVER have the camera on "auto" while removing the SD card.... so that means turning it off... remove the SD card.. and remember (sometimes hard when you are only a few months away from being 70) to turn it back to "auto" and close....I have forgotten to set back to "auto" before closing it about 5 times since August and as a result you get NO PHOTOS............ just like what I did last night before dark
 
 
 
 
BTW - all those photos of the great bucks here last year were turned into jerky ....
2014/11/14 21:43:16
BeenThereDoneThat.
Hear you about turning off the unit and turning it back on cause I've  BeenThereDoneThat!  
 
Enjoyed the chat; keep your pictures coming, especially of your success tomorrow.  Hunt safely.
2014/11/14 21:59:34
BeenThereDoneThat.
http://www.fieldandstream.com/rut-report.
 
If I read the info posted on this sight correctly; the rut hasn't started yet, the deer are still chasing?????????????
2014/11/15 05:43:37
BeenThereDoneThat.
Timeline:  Today; around 5:00 AM, somewhere between lost and found.
Good morning to all,
O.A.T is 27` F. with 5-8 mph WSW wind and,  light snow falling.  Weatherman says O.A.T might hit 30 degrees around noon today.  
 
My itinerary for the day will include strapping my self  to a tree approx. 15 feet in the air somewhere in the PA. Wilds, to watch the sun rise while, listening to the world around me wake up.   Not likely to hear the frogs and birds I heard at the beginning of this week but, it should be interesting.
 
My hopes and dreams are to 'harvest' a legal whitetail buck during the first few minutes of legal shooting time so that, I may get my azz back to a lounge chair located, in my warm and cuddly man cave.
 
With that I bid all, who dare venturing out on this beautiful day to cast or shoot, good luck and a safe day.
 
PS.  Those successful with your whitetail hunt;   In the name of science, remember to report your 'harvest'.  (sorry)

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