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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: wk2hnt]
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11/28/24 07:54 PM
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booner
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My corn camera scenario is probably different than you are taking about.
When I used to do the corn camera thing, I had a process. This process was mainly geared at clubs due to the random nature of other member and pressure.
I’d grid off the property that I was hunting into 100 acre sections, and then place a camera with corn within that area where I thought I had the best chance to locate a mature buck. Mainly transitions. The more that came together, the better.
Those cams would only be in said areas for 6-7dys. I was only interested if I had a shooter on days 1-3. This meant “to me”, that this particular buck lived or frequented this area often and wasn’t brought in by feed. After that amount of days, the data didn't mean much. However if there was a really good buck that showed up on days 4-7, then I’d triangulate cams with a little feed in the direction that he was coming from. In hopes to get him in those 1-3dy timeline. Sometimes this worked.
Each week I’d move all my cams to new areas in order to locate more/better deer in effort to build a “hitlist”. Once the hitlist was established, I’d go back in those areas, with corn, for one more week of data closer to season to verify that particular deer was still there. If so, then I’d look into topos, aerials and boots on the ground to figure out how to kill said deer.
This process worked for me every year on taking multiple mature deer in a pressured environment. Corn and cameras.
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: wk2hnt]
#4237312
11/28/24 07:57 PM
11/28/24 07:57 PM
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Banks of Little River
JohnnyLoco
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Cameras and corn are making lots of people think they are really great deer hunters. Kind of reminds me of when the spinning wing duck decoys came out and people that couldn’t kill a duck on their own suddenly became the greatest duck hunters ever. What does the aldeer brain trust have to say about this. I don’t post much but love to read my news here Welcome to Tejas 😂🤣😂🤣
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: wk2hnt]
#4237332
11/28/24 08:17 PM
11/28/24 08:17 PM
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TDog93
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I move most of my cameras to roads - all deer do not love cameras
My best field has no camera - hav it that way to reduce any kind of stress - i hav pics of matures seeing cam - then start running in pic from cam and they aint been back. Several of my other fields and spots no camera either
Everybody's deer don't act same as everybody else's either
All my cams need to be in roads and only reason i keep one at buck field and i hav tested this many times - they eat the crap out of corn or way more corn when cam is gone - hav to feed lot more
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self
We need prayer for our country now more than ever
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: wk2hnt]
#4237343
11/28/24 08:37 PM
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deadeye48
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Have a good time and hunt in any way that’s legal
If you don’t like how someone else does it then don’t do it that way but leave them alone
When I need expert advice I tend to talk to myself
The older I get the better I used to be
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: Pwyse]
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11/28/24 09:22 PM
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blount county alabama
jwalker77
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Guy says “I’m not hunting over corn I’m a real hunter!” and then climbs up into his shooting house with heater and windows overlooking a 3 acre food plot.
Makes sense. And he probably has a corn pile hid somewhere
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: deadeye48]
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11/28/24 10:53 PM
11/28/24 10:53 PM
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Ourtown, AL
BCLC
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Have a good time and hunt in any way that’s legal
If you don’t like how someone else does it then don’t do it that way but leave them alone Bingo
We’re not dead. We just smell that way. Dayum. - AC870
Yessir! I’m always gonna shoot what makes me happy and I want everyone else to do the same! If you shoot one be proud of it and don’t worry what anyone else thinks. - SJ22
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: wk2hnt]
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11/29/24 05:29 AM
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1bamashooter
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What if you actually kill some of the bucks you get on camera what does that mean? I bet you have been looking at pics of bucks other folks have on camera haven't you....
Last edited by 1bamashooter; 11/29/24 05:31 AM.
Keep your booger hooker off the bang switch.
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: wk2hnt]
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11/29/24 07:15 AM
11/29/24 07:15 AM
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Boxes Cove
2Dogs
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Reading sign , learning the terra , patterning deer in the woods is a dying art. My .02, if corn and cameras are ever outlawed , it's gonna be mighty long seasons for some I'm afraid.
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: wk2hnt]
#4237536
11/29/24 08:34 AM
11/29/24 08:34 AM
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I was killing before corn and i will kill after - but getting old has killed the i will get 30 feet up a tree to beat the wind
Biggest bonus to not feed is $$$. Sometimes i get tired of the corn and the methods - but i adapt to the laws and there was always rebels/outlaws that fed all time. Glad we pissed on that
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self
We need prayer for our country now more than ever
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: wk2hnt]
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11/29/24 09:43 AM
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I have hunted over corn and I’ve killed deer over corn. I probably will hunt over corn again and I’ll probably killed deer over corn again. However that is not my favorite way to hunt. I still like big cleacuts and acorn filled creek bottoms. My favorite is getting up close and personal with em at a creek crossing or a road crossing in the thick pines. I probably hunt more this way then over corn. And on occasion I like to go kick back in a shooting house on one of our bigger plots on a nice cool afternoon. Either way as long as I’m hunting, I’m happy.
It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chews your a$$ all day long.
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: James]
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11/29/24 10:49 AM
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Hunting over corn was alot more FUN when it was illegal just saying 😏 Bpi supports this message  Cameras are a tool no different than the apps people use for info and corn is bait no different than a food plot. I don't think it makes you better or worse of a hunter. If people want to go primitive and chunk spears at them then go right ahead. If you want to hunt over a corn pile with a camera go for that too.
Last edited by BPI; 11/29/24 10:52 AM.
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: wk2hnt]
#4237656
11/29/24 12:33 PM
11/29/24 12:33 PM
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Banks of Little River
JohnnyLoco
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I’m all for anyone hunting any legal way they want. I’m just saying that woodmanship hunters are a dying breed. I just camera and feed year round and lots of it but I don’t really hunt near the feeders or where I have cameras. Man I agree, its why I recommend folks do more squirrel hunting.
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: JohnnyLoco]
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11/29/24 01:32 PM
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Frankie
Old Mossy Horns
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I’m all for anyone hunting any legal way they want. I’m just saying that woodmanship hunters are a dying breed. I just camera and feed year round and lots of it but I don’t really hunt near the feeders or where I have cameras. Man I agree, its why I recommend folks do more squirrel hunting. I wish I could find a place loaded with fox squirrels.
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: wk2hnt]
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12/10/24 10:19 PM
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TDog93
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2 of my best deer run from the cams. If it ever get dry enough to drive on lease - all my cams going on roads
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self
We need prayer for our country now more than ever
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: wk2hnt]
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12/10/24 10:49 PM
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Playing 3 sides of the coin - heads, tails, and sides - I think there has been a great benefit to this corn and camera situation that nobody talks about. What about all those up and coming bucks that are passed because an El Muy Grande was captured on camera at 2:30 one night? My sons and I do that on my place pretty regular. We usually do some pre-season and early season camera work with corn and we usually identify a few bucks we wouldn't mind killing. We hunt those bucks or new ones that may show up in that same antler class and leave the dinks and baskets alone. I cant be the only one doing this... although i can appreciate the mindset that Billy Bubba with a game cam and sacks of corn shoots whatever shows up.
You gonna pull them pistols, or whistle Dixie?
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: wk2hnt]
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12/11/24 06:37 AM
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TDog93
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^^^
I enjoy checking pics. I got 1 old school non cell camera over 2 feeding areas (flash less than cell) and one cell at a wooded spot. You know more about your heard!!
All deer are different - but my really good amd also mature deer - act like they hate cameras. Hav for years!! Most of mine going to a road when i get next chance. Got a stud 7 - big - got his pic one day - acted like he hated the camera - aint been back. Got snother stud 7 - he went down in rack size some this year - got him multiple times acted freaked out to camera - even got running away pics 🤣🤣. Dont come around much. I get these with most of my really good mature bucks - not all - but most.
One of the bettr hunters i know told me - if u want to kill really good mature bucks - take the freaking camera down!!
My big field only has camera in it early season. That way last year - most of my fields about to get that way - doing for pressure - stress only
I could give a crap what everybody else does 😀
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self
We need prayer for our country now more than ever
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: wk2hnt]
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12/11/24 08:06 PM
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Mobile, AL
Pwyse
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I’m all for anyone hunting any legal way they want. I’m just saying that woodmanship hunters are a dying breed. I just camera and feed year round and lots of it but I don’t really hunt near the feeders or where I have cameras. So you have corn feeders with cameras on them but you don’t hunt in the area of the cameras? Why do you put cameras on them? Why not put your cameras where you are gonna hunt? I’m not knocking your method at all. Just trying to understand your reasoning is all.
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: Pwyse]
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12/11/24 08:43 PM
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booner
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I’m all for anyone hunting any legal way they want. I’m just saying that woodmanship hunters are a dying breed. I just camera and feed year round and lots of it but I don’t really hunt near the feeders or where I have cameras. So you have corn feeders with cameras on them but you don’t hunt in the area of the cameras? Why do you put cameras on them? Why not put your cameras where you are gonna hunt? I’m not knocking your method at all. Just trying to understand your reasoning is all. Not sure about how/why wk2hnt does his thing. But for me I just like knowing what’s on the property. I have four patches with feeders on them that never get hunted and most likely never will. Literally one field has been hunted once in the last 4-5yrs and the others have not. That was only because the wife wanted to go watch some deer on “her” patch one evening. I use those areas as sanctuaries. Only time I go in there is to top off feed, camera maintenance and planting.
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: wk2hnt]
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12/12/24 04:09 AM
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I have a small patch that I keep cameras and corn on year round. I find it interesting how and when it gets used by the critters that live around my 96 acres. I look at 1000s of pics. every year. This is how I hunt now that I am not able to get out much anymore.
Grandma said...Always keep a gun close at hand, you just never know when you might run across some varmint that needs killing...
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: James]
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12/12/24 05:56 PM
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Hunting over corn was alot more FUN when it was illegal just saying 😏 Or out a truck window at night driving 30 mph holding a spot light. Not me.
"We have an opponent in this state that we work every day, 365 days a year, to dominate."
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: wk2hnt]
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12/12/24 11:15 PM
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TDog93
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Most that worry about it think their way is bettr - i just love trying to hunt a deer. Pressure and wind hav always been at the forefront of my hunting even way before any mention of corn going back decades and i hav always like fields - clearcuts and crossings
Just kill the dang deer - nobody cAres about your hero story 🤣🤣🤣. There a lot of different ways to do it - pick a way that is a legal way to kill him and since i am not a nerd - i am not going to care which legal way u pick 🤣🤣
I was doing this crap with dogs when a lot of yall were probably not even born
Just took a camera off a field today - does that make me a bettr hunter 🤣🤣😀 like i care - wish i would hav done pull sooner for pressure reasons
Good luck fellers 😀
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self
We need prayer for our country now more than ever
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: wk2hnt]
#4245681
12/13/24 07:53 PM
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I been feeding for years regardless of laws . I haven’t kill any deer close to a feeder . All deer I’ve killed has come out of cutover . I keep one feeder out mostly to see what out there . Deer, pigs, coons whatever . Mature bucks in my area will not come to a feeder. Maybe one time during rut an always at night . I killed mature within 1/4 mile of feeder a never seen him near feeder or on any camera . They are just that smart or they wouldn’t live over 4 years here . I’ve caught over 300 pigs at the feeder because I move it around to where pigs are at . Have 2 different traps . I would rather trap hogs any day than kill a big buck . Cameras are a big help for hogs and pre baiting . But for me personally in my area corn and cameras has had zero effect on deer or quality of deer me or my friends have killed . 2nd or 3rd year cutover is the trick .
Brushwacker
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Re: Cameras and Corn
[Re: booner]
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12/18/24 08:32 PM
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Possum Hunter
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My corn camera scenario is probably different than you are taking about.
When I used to do the corn camera thing, I had a process. This process was mainly geared at clubs due to the random nature of other member and pressure.
I’d grid off the property that I was hunting into 100 acre sections, and then place a camera with corn within that area where I thought I had the best chance to locate a mature buck. Mainly transitions. The more that came together, the better.
Those cams would only be in said areas for 6-7dys. I was only interested if I had a shooter on days 1-3. This meant “to me”, that this particular buck lived or frequented this area often and wasn’t brought in by feed. After that amount of days, the data didn't mean much. However if there was a really good buck that showed up on days 4-7, then I’d triangulate cams with a little feed in the direction that he was coming from. In hopes to get him in those 1-3dy timeline. Sometimes this worked.
Each week I’d move all my cams to new areas in order to locate more/better deer in effort to build a “hitlist”. Once the hitlist was established, I’d go back in those areas, with corn, for one more week of data closer to season to verify that particular deer was still there. If so, then I’d look into topos, aerials and boots on the ground to figure out how to kill said deer.
This process worked for me every year on taking multiple mature deer in a pressured environment. Corn and cameras.
This is actually a very great idea. I've done similar scenarios. But haven't thought about the triangular piles to find which way he's coming from. I LIKE IT.
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