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Eighteen Hour BuckThe whitetail deer below is a buck that came by our deer scouting camera at roughly an eighteen hour interval, on the same trail, going in the same direction. These pictures were taken in September over a 3 day period on a fallow farm consisting of several fields separated by small tree lined creek, dry drains and wood patches. On our fallow farms daylight deer movement is common, more so than on working farms.
Everyone wants to see trophy whitetail deer in our pictures. With a scouting camera that captures pictures only 30 feet over a very narrow arc any deer captured on film are worthy of study. While this farm did not hold a residential trophy whitetail it had an abundant doe resident population on one significant funnel area and one transit zone. This lease is a very good rut hunt farm rather than pre-rut land. The farm this deer was photographed on is shown below. It has been fallow for an indeterminate number of years. Just about every tree line and wood patch has a deer trail and it is a loafing area as no one, but members have disturbed it. This picture is an example of our more open terrain. At point "A" is where the deer pictured above was photographed. At point "C" is where we determined during the hunt we needed to stand as that was an area of good buck movement. At point "C" we captured on film a string of different scrap racked bucks that in two years would be trophies. Point "C" would have been a great spot for a youth deer hunter to quickly harvest a small rack and have a chance at another should at first he fail.
This is a 1/4 section, or 160 acres. The area in the southern half created a funnel for all deer moving from east to west. The forcing feature of this funnel area are the shear and deep drops of the creek banks that limit crossing sites and they cannot be detected in this photo. The creek on the south side of the property was deep to the point that we didn't want to cross it either. The eastern tree lined fence row is a heavily used north-south transit area for doe and scrap racked buck. this one farm had an exceptional amount of daylight deer movement within the tree lines. |
