The early deer season is fast approaching and now is the time to spend time in the field scouting and placing your deer scouting trail cameras. You should be planting your fall food plots if you live in the North and be working the ground in preparation if you live in the South. If you are managing established food plots cool season perennials you may need to mow them to initiate new growth. It is a busy time of year if you are a deer manager and hunter.

Deer Scouting trail cameras should be placed in all your survey locations to determine your buck/doe ratios as well as number of mature bucks that you have using your habitat. Our biologists are busy this time of year determining the animal unit months or carrying capacity for the habitat of our cooperators and clients. We try to use the same locations each year for our surveys and we use the same attractant C'mere Deer with same bait to get relatively consistent results. This information will be used to set the antlerless harvest goals for property.

Deer Scouting Trail Cameras should also be used by hunters who are going to hunt public lands as well. Establishing travel corridors that bucks use to and from bedding areas will pay big dividends during the early bow season. Again you should consider using a deer attractant like C'mere Deer that does not leave it presence on the ground for other hunters to observe. In addition you should do a good job of hiding your trail camera as camera thieves may take or destroy your equipment. When purchasing new trail cameras you should select the camera with the highest pixel count available. Even more important is to select a camera with infrared flash. The use of white flash will alert more than deer and attract someone who may steal or damage your camera. In addition flashless Deer Scouting trail cameras are also useful in solving poaching and trespass problems.

Late summer is a busy time for the hunter and deer land manager. It is just another phase of deer hunting. Get your trail cameras in the woods. For the dedicated deer hunter the season never closes it just gets better and better.

By: Jim Kesel

About the Author:
James Kesel, MS is the publisher of Bruce Point Outdoors. Providing information on hunting, shooting and camping gear and how to affectively use it.



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