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Originally Posted by wdc
I found that if you hand spread the corn over the entire viewing area you can keep the herd in longer and pick up on some interesting behavior. My game cam lost it's screen so I need another but I doubt that I will ever feed again. Last year I had a very healthy herd of fourteen animals that were almost entirely killed off by poachers. Community and neighborhood deer are semi-domesticated and easy pickings for "hunters" who go after easy prey. Two of the young bucks this year attacked my mother-in-laws concrete buck ornament. Man I wish that I had that on video. I chased them off before they could break off the antlers with their hoof strikes. I had a young tom show up this spring. I guess he had heard that there was feed on that hill. I put some of my deer cam photos on my facebook page. I think that stills are easier to manage than the videos for your records.
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I donīt feed anymore, because if I put
anything edible in front of the camera in the forest, there will be hundreds of wild boar pictures in the morning. I prefer to go deeper in the wood and find the deer trail, and put the cam there without bait. Right now I am 5 months deployed, and my bushnell trophy cams are in the woods all the time, I am really curious if they are still working, or damaged, or stolen. Well, they worked for 4 months over the winter without change of batteries or need to dry up, and we got long winter here, so there is a fat chance.