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Well, the 2010-2011 deer season just came to an end. I started hunting September 11th and went through January 15th, which occurred in Georgia and Mississippi.

The video below consists of video shot while hunting over Christmas break in Mississippi. One thing you will notice is the deer do not enter the food plots till dark and that makes filming very hard. Maybe next year we will have better luck and better video.

Our hunting over the Christmas break came to an end December 30th. We saw some bucks that were legal to shoot but we decided not to shoot them because of the management plan being implemented on the property we were hunting. Plus, we have higher expectations on what type of bucks we want to shoot.

Now you guys know how much I love my trail cameras and I am amazed sometimes at what I capture on them. Placing a trail camera on a tree in the middle of the woods is the same as setting up a tree stand. You have to do your research with scouting. I think of my trail cameras as my hunting buddies that are hunting 24 hours a day during the year.

As we were doing our doe management, written about in my last blog post, I had a few occurrences with 2 young bucks. I show these encounters in the video below. I find it funny that the does come out after video light is gone but these 2 bucks show themselves with plenty of daylight. Well, that is hunting.

I am torn about this next blog post. I videoed a young buck that had hurt his left front shoulder/leg. As shown in the video below, he was limping pretty bad. I only have one tag left and 2 full months of hunting so I decided not to shoot him.

Now that I was tagged out in GA, I started sitting with my Dad videoing him. The first evening we saw this awesome 2 1/2 year old 8 point tending this doe. I was impressed how well he was doing it as shown in the video below. We tried to make this buck grow in real time, but we will have to wait till next year or the year after that.

My favorite kind of hunting is anytime I can hunt with my Dad and son. Since my Dad and I had tagged out with bucks, we decided to both sit with Tad and try to get him a buck. We hunted hard for 4 days but the weather changed and big buck movement stopped. We saw some small bucks but Tad has killed small ones before and I wanted him to wait. Shown below is a video of us 3 goofing off with some interaction with deer and a bunch of turkeys in a tower stand.

I have been very fortunate the last few years to help first time hunters kill either their first turkey or deer. I have found that these hunts are very fulfilling and some of the most memorable I have ever had.

On my way out from hunting, I came across 2 shooter bucks bedded down with a doe. I could not get a shot and the doe got up and eased further into the pine thicket. I knew they were going to stay bedded and I could come back that evening. There were 2 tower stands on an 8 acre oats food plot on a power line right of way and I figured they would get up and feed in this food plot. I was right, just in the wrong tower stand, as you can see in the video below. 2 nice bucks. Now the video is a little

I was sitting in a tower stand videoing my Dad the next day after tagging out with a big 7 pointer, when we had an encounter with the buck we call Crab Claw 10 Jr. Crab Claw 10 Jr. appeared in the back door of our tower stand and my Dad looked up and saw him. I could not get the camera around fast enough to get the shot videoed but my Dad knocked him down. The video below is pretty funny of me trying to get on the buck. Once again, all I have is the recovery video. Congratulations to my Dad for

I captured a series of photos of a nice buck lock down with a doe at one of our feed stations. He beds down while she feeds. Once she gets up, he jumps up to follow her. It is amazing the story trail camera photos can tell sometimes. I put in a video to give it some animation.

Well, I start this post by saying I was wrong. When you hunt, you have to set your expectations as to what you want to shoot ahead of time. In the previous post, Trail Camera Buck Size Distortion Phenomenon, I talked about letting a great shooter buck go that we named No Brow Jr. When I saw and videoed him, he just did not impress me. My thinking was also influenced by a recent event that happened the day before. A good buddy of mine shot a 3 1/2 year old 196 pound 7 pointer that only scored ab

Now if you have read any of the postings on this blog, you know how much I love my trail cameras and how I like to use them. A few weeks ago, I tested and am now the proud owner of 2 PlotWatcher time elapse cameras. I wanted to discuss how I am using both of these cameras for my different scouting applications.

I was very concerned about hunting this past weekend due to the fact it was during the full moon phase. So I was pleasantly surprised by how many deer I saw moving, mostly during the morning hours. One thing I learned was that a trail camera photo of a buck can be misleading and distorted. I have written about the buck we call No Brow Jr. a few times. I thought this deer was a 200 pound, 130"+ point shooter. I saw him live this past hunt and got some good video of him, as shown below. I did not