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Secrets to Hunting Feeder Bucks in States Where Feeders Are Allowed

Day 3: Catch and Release Buck Deer by Using Feeders

Click for Larger ViewYou can use trail cameras to spot and watch the deer at a feeder and set-up to photograph them yourself. If you plan to observe bucks at a feeder, always make sure you stay downwind of the feeder and as far away from it as you can to keep from spooking the bucks. You can photograph and take inventory of all the bucks at each feeder site on your hunting lease with your trail camera and digital camera. You can put these photos in a photo album. Then each member of your hunting lease can see and learn to recognize the bucks coming to a particular feeder. Lease members can make decisions as to which bucks they want to take and which bucks they prefer to pass-up and allow them to grow another year or two. Click for Larger View

The more you learn about the bucks on your property prior to hunting season, the better harvest decisions you can make, and the bigger bucks you can bag. By using a trail camera before the season at a feeder site, you’ll often see and photograph trophy bucks that you’ll never see during hunting season.

In the past, only hunters who have carried video cameras into tree stands or ground blinds with them have had pictures of deer they haven’t taken. However, with trail cameras you can show-off the bucks on your property coming to feeders.

Tomorrow: Use Feeders for Absentee Deer Scouting


Check back each day this week for more about "Secrets to Hunting Feeder Bucks in States Where Feeders Are Allowed "

Day 1: Why Feeders Produce Buck Deer
Day 2: Ways to Use Feeders with Deer Hunters Ronnie Groom and Dr. Grant Woods
Day 3: Catch and Release Buck Deer by Using Feeders
Day 4: Use Feeders for Absentee Deer Scouting
Day 5: Choose What Feed Attracts Deer to Your Feeders and Where to Put Them

 

Entry 588, Day 3