Hunting Washington Forum
Community => Trail Cameras => Topic started by: huntnnw on June 06, 2020, 07:14:50 PM
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I’ll add pics to this thread as year progresses.
Got the itch to chase whitetails again this year with a bow after a 4 year break chasing muleys here. First cam check after a 5 day soak.
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He's going to be a dandy
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Oh yeah...... He's a beaut!
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Stud!
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Dang! I thought i saw a nice whitetail the other day... nothing like that!
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Reason I hiked in here to hang a cam was to find a buck I saw 3 weeks ago that was bigger than this.
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This has me wanting to take a hike tomorrow to check a couple cams, see if the old boy im going after this fall is still alive. I have a lot of stuff to do around the house, but im pretty good at ignoring such things in order to screw off in the woods.
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Looking forward to pics !
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Dang! He is a brute! What is the chosen bait?
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Just loose salt with selenium
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Thanks, week or so ahead of my regulars
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Hes a tank :drool:
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Headed up tomorrow to check cam. Hopefully a update
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New one, no big guy this check
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Just loose salt with selenium
Non iodized salt and selenium yeast?
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Just loose salt with selenium
Non iodized salt and selenium yeast?
https://north40.com/american-stockman-se-90-trace-mineralized-salt-with-selenium
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Do you put down the loose salt to keep people from walking away with your block or is there another reason? great looking deer.
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it dissolves into ground better, deer will come back for years in some places
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This is 2 bags . It’s even bigger now probably 4’ deep in places
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very nice
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Thanks for sharing, very nice whitetails! Gets me pumped for next fall. It's also motivating me to get out and set up a camera and some salt piles. Thanks again!
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Nice!
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I've been told that some areas in our state our selenium deficient so the animals really benefit from these minerals. Anyone have any insight on this??? I use it for that reason and the animals appear to like it.
That is a stud buck....can't wait to see hard horn pics of him. Thanks for posting. Also very interesting that you have a lot of day pics. Most of my big bucks stay nocturnal, even this time of year.
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That stuff works on all deer types?
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Most of my deer pics I can get in daylight until late August. Every hooved animal will come into salt.
I have spots in Idaho that the animals are so salt deficient that the deer come right into camp to lick up urine. These deer are 51 miles from the nearest pavement they don’t see many people.
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Another cam about 2 mi away from where the big buck cam is. He’s still a no show since June 4. I’ll be moving around it looks like to find his home. Did find a bachelor group of bulls
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Just picked up 11,000 tons of salt, ready to set some cams :chuckle:
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You would have animals coming in for a lifetime :chuckle:
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Looks more like alum
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Not getting many deer on this cam. Elk, moose, bears and 1 doe
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Got this big guy on 3 of the 4 cams we setup around our camp this past weekend.
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nice!
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Got this big guy on 3 of the 4 cams we setup around our camp this past weekend.
I would keep an eye on your cameras for you if you would let me know where your camp is.
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Got this big guy on 3 of the 4 cams we setup around our camp this past weekend.
I would keep an eye on your cameras for you if you would let me know where your camp is.
HAHAHA! That would be great.
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Well after 14 days I got him on camera again plus the other buck that has shown up
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Does the salt and selenium keep them around all thru hunting season or do they go off it unless feed is put out also. Have always used feed, just started a site with salt and selenium last week on the east side.
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Does the salt and selenium keep them around all thru hunting season or do they go off it unless feed is put out also. Have always used feed, just started a site with salt and selenium last week on the east side.
My experience is they like salt in the spring time. They will visit it later in the year but not as frequently. Maybe someone else has a different experience?? I also find that when in velvet they have different routines that change dramatically when they become hard horned. What you see in the spring is typically not exactly what you will see in the fall.
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Usually a drastic reduction in pics by 3rd week of July. Then it gets more erratic after that and by fall it’s not real active . The pic reduction usually goes hand in hand with the feed sources drying up , antlers finishing and does drying up. Salt consumption is so high with may and June due to high water content in their diet .
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Ive had a mineral site going for 12 years. Primarily whitetail use. Does are a constant. Young bucks often but not as much as does. Mature bucks random, mostly dark. I'd sit a mineral site in sept but otherwise not. Now if you use bait, you can do that near a mineral site but given the choice I'd be far enough away to offer the ten gallon limit for the does as its does the bucks are looking for.
I have good luck with a mix of corn and sweet cob spread over trails and in tall grass and buck brush so it lasts longer.
I also use commercial scent with good results.
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Think of deer food content, it is very easy right now with a high water content, gaining like crazy, feeding fawns, it all takes more salt to make it work. Later, mid July to fall rain things get a little tough, gain and body condition decrease. Fall, fawns are really getting with the growth program and food quality is on the rise, salt need increases. The selenium is simply filling a need not present in the PNW environment. Other trace minerals and vitamins could be added to your mix but salt is the draw and determining consumption. Moving your cameras to where the action is will keep your cards busy. Having little bits of your chosen mix will give an advantage, great posts, thanks
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Also in the fall once the rains arrive, it literally reconstitutes vegetation which through most of the summer has been parched unpalatable browse.
I liken it to putting milk on your shredded wheat.
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Big bear and 3 total bears showed up.not many deer. 5 spike elk, 4 branch antlered bulls .
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Moose calf is hours on the ground, elk calf has some experience, thanks
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Great pics. Love seeing those babies each year.
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Would love to see more babies
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Yeah that calf looks wobbly. I’m up to 8 different bears on cam now in a 7 sq mile area. Not good when I have more bear pics than deer.
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That big buck looks like a 6 point to be. Would love to kill a bear, Aug 1st can't come soon enough!
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Good to see babies
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That big buck looks like a 6 point to be. Would love to kill a bear, Aug 1st can't come soon enough!
I will know for sure when I get him on cam next time. He should have g5 starts if he’s going to be a 6
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Thanks for sharing :tup:
I'm thinking I'll have to take a few hikes in August and try and help with the bear problems.
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Packing it on now . Moved cam always coming in butt to cam
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That thing is an absolute BEAST! Hope we get to see him grow over the next 6 to 8 weeks :tup:
Thank you for sharing the pics!!
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May of figured what buck this is. Been trying to figure out who he is. Think it’s a small 5pt last year that has exploded this year.
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1 shed I got
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Ok, now let’s get a better pic of the pile!
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Ok, now let’s get a better pic of the pile!
Haha! Couple hundred in that pile
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Went and pulled a cam down. Hung 10 days and I got pretty much every 4 legged animal in the woods on cam.
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Wow, cool spot!
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sadly this spot was to see what whitetails I had here and I had 1 spike buck in 16 days.
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Dropped a cam in a new spot. Got this old guy. Missing a eye.
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I love those predator pictures. Makes me want to go out and kill a few
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Looks like some nice bases on old one eye there. Thanks for sharing
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Mining for minerals, thanks
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Oh he’s nice
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A bear took cam down and got 1 pic of him. He was on cam in late may and early June, but has been gone since, I did glass him up 3-4 mi away feeding. He grew allot more than I thought he would .
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A bear took cam down and got 1 pic of him. He was on cam in late may and early June, but has been gone since, I did glass him up 3-4 mi away feeding. He grew allot more than I thought he would .
Wow that one's a beast!
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Showed up again.
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I’ll leave this here :chuckle: won’t post any others until I take him
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Monster!...Well half of one anyway. Good luck!
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If this is your normal bachelor pair I want to see the loner that must be about
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Great deer. Good luck next month
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Nice buck! Good luck and hopefully you got him coming in on the right side of the fence this time. :rolleyes:
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Ole 1 eye showed up at a different cam
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hard horned bull. date/time is accurate. last pic looks like 2 bulls feeling their oats
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Very nice that cut looks familiar :chuckle:
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There was 6 bulls in this field and 5 cows. Best part they were on a buddies property. Hopefully 1 will be around come muzzy. The 1 6x6 is pretty nice. 310 ish bull. He was raking wheat to get velvet off. He pretty much stripped it all in 2 hours on wheat .
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video of some of the bulls, no idea why it posted sideways
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I had bulls hard horned on the 6th of August
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Saw a big bull moose on Monday morning, he wasn't hard horned, but the velvet was starting to look a bit ratty. Hopefully I will get some trail cam pics of him soon.
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not sure if this is the same bull in the upper pics or not...i've seen 3 other bulls in this same cut that are much bigger than this one but some stupid a$$ (me) somehow has my trail cam set to take pics every 5 minutes...will go in tomorrow evening and change the settings. the cams i have out are about 15 years old so they are pretty finicky and difficult to set...not to mention they take a butt load of D and C cell batteries. Hunting partner says i need to upgrade but i'm old school so i'm rolling with what i have.
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Ole 1 eye is out of velvet . First one I have seen this year.
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The 3.5 yr old mule deer bucks at my place rubbed clean on the 27th too. Was hoping they'd hold on for a couple more days
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Lotta wolves
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That’s not good. That’s what it looks like in my Teanaway areas. Have completely moved the elk out of two different drainages. Sad to see
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Big bear and only bear pic out of 7k pics between 2 cam is what’s called a high density bear area in Idaho.
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That’s not good. That’s what it looks like in my Teanaway areas. Have completely moved the elk out of two different drainages. Sad to see
Elk here dont seem to care. Tons of elk pics same day as wolves
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Big bear and only bear pic out of 7k pics between 2 cam is what’s called a high density bear area in Idaho.
Woulda been a dozen bears in wa. I hunted 4,6,7 a bit this spring to work on my reduced 2nd bear tag and didnt see a bear, hardly even saw any sign, in areas of killer habitat. I think all the baiting and hounds really makes for poor bear hunting, but the 2nd bear tags are only valid in the bait / hound units.. All i managed to do over there was call in a coyote. I may go try a bit more this month, but im not optimistic. In the future i wont even buy the 2nd idaho bear tags, just stick with the full price tag thats valid in unit 1 where theres no bait or hounds allowed.
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Us WA guys are spoiled to what a actual high bear density is. If they call this area high bear area then its a joke. I have countless hours behind glass here scouting, trail cams and I have seen 1 bear in person and 1 on cam and see very little bear sign. I can take 1 bag of COB up 10 min from spokane and have 2-5 bears on it 24-48 hours
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Lotta wolves
Grenade!! :chuckle:
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are the wolf pictures of a cam in Idaho or WA?
How long was the cam set for?
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Probably the fattest bear I’ve gotten on cam.
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Wow that’s a BIG bear. :yike:
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Good lord... :o
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Somebodies got to lay off the little debbies.
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It looks like sniffing the log tuckered him out and he needed to sit and rest lol. It's probably tough lugging all that weight around :chuckle:
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That color, high temps, a layer of fat, slow roll all the time
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That thing is literally a hawg
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Wolves? Are you sure those aren't large coyotes in their summer "plummage" Sure look like coyote major to me
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These pics were taken 15 minutes after I left this meadow, 20 minutes before sunset. My stand was precisely 30 yards from these animals.
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hard horned bull. date/time is accurate. last pic looks like 2 bulls feeling their oats
Hell yeah
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Wolves? Are you sure those aren't large coyotes in their summer "plummage" Sure look like coyote major to me
hopefully sarcastic? those are 100% wolves not even debatable
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New bull, damn elk tweaked cam.
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How'd the early season treat you, or are you waiting to go into these spots for the late season?
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Only bow hunted whitetails, no sighting of the buck I’m after. Start WA muzzy elk Saturday then to Idaho for elk for 9 days
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That bear is a HOG! Bait, garbage, berries, or what?!
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You have yourself a nice spot!!
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Boy that bull was making a mess of himself wasn’t he!
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Boy that bull was making a mess of himself wasn’t he!
He’s now dead :chuckle:
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Better off to hunt the Methow :chuckle:
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