New area...interesting results

[AKBowman]

I just grabbed my cam from a two week soak. I have been thinking about sticking this cam in a small finger of DNR land between private. I've found some really good trails but the only pic I got in two weeks was the one of me approaching my cam. Seems the cam was working fine. Obviously the deer have been in here at one point...there are well used trails and obvious beds.

This area is down in some flatter stuff just down the hill from a really large patch of DNR land that gets hunted very heavily during the season. I'm wondering if the deer get pushed down into this area during modern firearm...which would be good for me.

I'm wondering if it would be worth it to move to a more well used trail a few hundred yards away and let it soak for a few more weeks.

[Skyvalhunter]

well they may move to there come hunting season. Did the sign look old or maybe its a wintering ground.

[AKBowman]

I think the sign was a bit older. The only fresh sign I did see was scat...it was flat and mushy like spring deer crap. Couldnt tell if there were real fresh tracks on the main trails or not as I didnt spend much time on them. One thing that concerns me is that I have been in there 3 times and have yet to jump a deer. There is some hair in the beds and like I said its cut up with trails.

I am going to move the cam and observe one of the main trails for 20 days or so...if I dont get anything I am going to pull out of the area until early oct...I plan on hunting late season for blackies this year.

The unit is open until the end of the year so if indeed it is a wintering ground that should put me in pretty good dshape for the late hunt.

[haus]

could be a possibility that a few doe's were using the area to protect their fawns and later moved out once the fawns got some strength in their legs 

[AKBowman]

The doe and fwn thing might be a possibility, I hadnt thought of that. I'll change the megapixels on my handheld camera so I can post the pics (too large otherwise) of the trails and beds when I go back in their this afternoon to place my cam again. Some of these trails are really cut up and its easy to tell they have been used multiple years over.

There are a couple of trails in there that are really long and pronounced to be BT trails. One of them is very pronounced for a couple of hundred yards or more. I just find it hard to believe that there arent deer in there year round.

Only one way to find out...I will keep posting results. I have another area that I have found deer but this are intrigues me.