Tactics
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- Tactics · Scouting and camerasBucks check many scrapes once each, and most visits come at nightCameras on 107 Tennessee scrapes logged 3,063 visits. Bucks made 73% of them and a median of 4.5 scrapes each, most buck and scrape pairings were one visit, and 67% of all visits came at night.
- Tactics · Scouting and camerasDeer notice the flash and keep coming, and card checks may cost photosGerman red and roe deer reacted more to 850 nm infrared than 940 nm black flash, yet photo rates held. In North Carolina, unmasked camera checks came with fewer whitetail photos at one of two sites.
- Tactics · Scouting and camerasRubs clump on small smooth stems, and fresh ones drew far more doe checksMaine rubs clumped on stems no thicker than 3.3 inches. Three tame Georgia does responded to rubs under 2 days old in 17 of 29 meetings and to older rubs in 1 of 24.
- Tactics · Scouting and camerasA photo model aged 4.5 bucks too old before the rut and too young afterTested on wild known-age bucks, a photo ratio model got 0 of 7 four-and-a-half-year-olds right before breeding and 2 of 14 after. Splitting yearlings from older bucks held up far better.
- Tactics · Scouting and camerasDeer Eyes Lose Small Details While Their Ears Favor Higher PitchesTests measured visual acuity at 4 to 6 cycles for each degree, with peak hearing sensitivity within 4 to 8 kHz. These limits describe what deer eyes and ears can detect. Testing involved no garments, detergents or field distances.4 to 8 kHzrange of peak hearing sensitivity in deer
- Tactics · Scouting and camerasWhy Camera Photos Can Mislead a Deer SurveyThe usual survey estimates the rest of the herd from bucks recognizable as individuals. Accuracy requires females and males to trigger pictures equally often per deer. Equipment varies too: manufacturers list trigger delays of 0.1 to 1.0 seconds.142herd estimate a worked camera calculation gets from 4,891 images
- Tactics · Scouting and camerasA Zero Is Data. Keep Sightings, Sign, Camera Effort, and Weather Apart.Keep a scouting log with separate columns for weather, camera-nights, sign, and live deer sightings. Save walks that turn up nothing, and never convert counts into an invented probability of occupancy.703Tennessee plots searched in a pellet group study the guide cites