Fall Bed Camera- 7-8 year old public land buck

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Re: Fall Bed Camera- 7-8 year old public land buck

Unread postby john1984 » Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:55 pm

Very cool


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Re: Fall Bed Camera- 7-8 year old public land buck

Unread postby Ghost Hunter » Sun Dec 17, 2017 1:08 pm

He don't mind getting comfortable either.
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Re: Fall Bed Camera- 7-8 year old public land buck

Unread postby RidgeGhost » Sun Dec 17, 2017 1:26 pm

Man that's awesome. I'd love to have that concrete knowledge of a bed
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Re: Fall Bed Camera- 7-8 year old public land buck

Unread postby headgear » Sun Dec 17, 2017 1:49 pm

Very cool pics, I know where you will be setup the next Oct SW wind. :lol:
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Re: Fall Bed Camera- 7-8 year old public land buck

Unread postby Scoutking07 » Sun Dec 17, 2017 3:18 pm

mheichelbech wrote:Awesome! Had a couple questions:

- did you get the winds from an online source I presume? Just curious as in some areas I hunt, the wind often doesn’t line up with the forecast.

- did he bed there often enough on that wind to be able predictably hunt him if you wanted to?

- and finally, were you able to locate his beddinig for other winds or situations?

Just curious. I have a bed like you have but I haven’t put a camera over it yet. I plan to do so next time I’m there.


Hey thanks for the questions, as far as wind directions I used weather underground’s historical data feature and although I don’t always believe the data provided seeing as it is an average wind direction, the data collection location was fairly close to the are I had the camera and the wind they had listed for each day he used the bed was the exact wind I would have guessed he used it on based on the terrain. Because of that fact, I took it as close enough.

It appears that the wind was west or WSW five times in this location in the month of October and I have him on camera at the bed 4 of those times. There was also a lack of acorns in this area this season which made me worry that no bucks would be using it but hopefully with a few acorns on nearby ridges this upcoming season he will use this bed on more westerly winds.

I did locate a few other beds in the area. One is very near(within 300) yards and seems to set up great for a S wind and the other is a little further but would be mainly a NNW bed. I did not run cameras at any other locations as I was worried about leaving too much ground scent. This camera was accessible by canoe and then I walked about 80 feet up through some steep rocks which it did not appear the deer were traveling through.

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Re: Fall Bed Camera- 7-8 year old public land buck

Unread postby Scoutking07 » Sun Dec 17, 2017 3:20 pm

headgear wrote:Very cool pics, I know where you will be setup the next Oct SW wind. :lol:


Haha so do I!!! If only it were that easy though. I guess I feel like I have a much better chance knowing for a fact that he was using it the way I had hoped. These public land big woods bucks are not stupid though.
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Re: Fall Bed Camera- 7-8 year old public land buck

Unread postby cameron » Sun Dec 17, 2017 4:13 pm

Right on man, good stuff!
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Re: Fall Bed Camera- 7-8 year old public land buck

Unread postby Lockdown » Sun Dec 17, 2017 5:22 pm

Very cool 8-) I love buck bed cams
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Re: Fall Bed Camera- 7-8 year old public land buck

Unread postby MikePerry » Sun Dec 17, 2017 5:35 pm

Sweet! Great pictures! I did something similar but your experiment makes me think I gave up to soon on mine. Last year in NE Ohio while hunting for a doe during the second gun season I had a buck I’d been after for two seasons I called Roscoe walk by me at 40 yards, he was a 4 1/2 year old 10 mid 150’s. He was jumped and shot at by a group of guys pushing deer before he came by me, I waited a hour then backtracked him to his bed, fast forward to this past June and I put a camera up in a tree facing that bed, I got pictures through summer into late September of several different deer including doe and young bucks in that bed but no Roscoe, i took the camera down when the season began figuring he somehow died after last season was over, maybe I should have kept that camera there longer. I was not getting pictures of anything I wanted to shoot on that farm through late October so I did not hunt there this year. In hindsight maybe I should of let that camera ride out till gun season.
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Re: Fall Bed Camera- 7-8 year old public land buck

Unread postby hunter_mike » Mon Dec 18, 2017 1:24 am

:clap: excellent work. Priceless pics.
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Re: Fall Bed Camera- 7-8 year old public land buck

Unread postby headgear » Mon Dec 18, 2017 3:11 am

Scoutking07 wrote:
Haha so do I!!! If only it were that easy though. I guess I feel like I have a much better chance knowing for a fact that he was using it the way I had hoped. These public land big woods bucks are not stupid though.


No doubt, but you have very specific intel so the odds are upped, that is the best kind of info a beast hunter could hope for. It might not happen your first sit next year but you have to feel good about the bed and your odds of catching a buck there next season and into the future.
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Re: Fall Bed Camera- 7-8 year old public land buck

Unread postby tbunao » Mon Dec 18, 2017 4:39 am

8-) 8-)
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Re: Fall Bed Camera- 7-8 year old public land buck

Unread postby daveynewman » Mon Dec 18, 2017 5:19 am

That's cool. I plan on hanging 5 camsover beds to sit for a year to gain more knowledge.
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Re: Fall Bed Camera- 7-8 year old public land buck

Unread postby cameron » Mon Dec 18, 2017 3:56 pm

Would you mind posting a map image( or even a drawing like some do) of this bed and setup with wind etc.
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Re: Fall Bed Camera- 7-8 year old public land buck

Unread postby Ack » Mon Dec 18, 2017 7:24 pm

Good stuff!


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