Deer season 2025

[Jimmyjames]

Greetings gents!

Last year i put a few zumimall wifi cams out in the field. I basically hunted from my kitchen. I would watch the cams while enjoying chili and hard ciders, then roll out carefully and take my shot at the deer of my choice. My plan worked perfectly. I Brought home 3 last season. 3 shots, 3 kills.


This season i decided to ditch the wifi zumimalls (the cold temperatures were killing the battery life). I instead ran cables to 2 hikvision ECI-B14F2 bullet cams.

Had a decent buck roll in a few nights ago:



Also tons of of do’s on the regular:



Anyone else using cams for hunting?

 

[David L]

I have my dogs retrieve them for me, lol

Post in thread 'OMG Thermal!'

Oct 20, 2025

Here is our one year old Boxer in pursuit of Deer this morning, normally she would chase them off our property
the wife called her back and she came this time, Good Girl, she has been listening more lately:
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Keep in mind it is pitch black dark still at 5 in the morning...our house lights stop around the pool area.

We have Deer daily now, during the day and of course at night. Deer Season starts here Nov. 1st

This Young Buck was in our front yard yesterday:

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Happy Huntin'

 

[Jimmyjames]

Looks like a decent 6 to 8 pointer walking in right now….

 

[Jimmyjames]

There’s been a big boy that has rolled through twice over the past several weeks.

Serious rack. Probably 12-14 points. I watched him walk another smaller buck off the the corn pile.

He’ll be back.

 

[David L]

Patience...

Yeah, this year has been the year that many of our Oaks have dropped Acorns. We are heavily wooded so we have been seeing full herds of Deer daily here...less feed needed for the feeders this year...

Here are some this morning, resting...we have noticed they are becoming more comfortable on our property...our young dog still chases them but she is not running them off our property like she use to. Funny but just a few minutes ago I let out our older dog to do her business and came back in to the PC and see the Deer has not moved.

It is pitch black outside, the Thermal CAM is great, those deer are about 50 yards from the CAM...

Still there even after I went and did my business, lol, no not outside, haha, it is 40 degrees here...


What do you have to drop one with? Thermal scope? just curious...

Bag a Big one!!!

 

[David L]

Still there, one is on the move:

 

[David L]

They will leave at daybreak...

 

[David L]

Here are some pics from my wife's phone yesterday in our front/side and backyard...

 

[David L]

They get real close now, this is from our backyard window a few days ago..


Prior to this cold snap which just happened about a week ago, we have an outdoor shower that I use, mornings were high 50s, low 60s, I was still showering, haha, but keeping the towel close. Anyway, they would be out there watching me, as long as I did not make any loud noise or sudden movements they will still hang around...

 

[David L]

Wow, went back to look at footage and they have been out there bedding since around 1am, got up at 5am, when I did but they went back to bed, lol and just moved on about 7:30am



Haha, they got up for a snack at 5am, haha, kinda like some of us do...lol

 

[David L]

In watching the 7am on footage the 4 or so got up and moved on, then the rest of the heard came from the South (right):



Guessing about a dozen in this heard...think we counted close to 15 one time...

 

[David L]

Saw another Deer, well my Dear...Wife


Our Older Boxer watching the show...(About 50 foot from the Deer, by our 40 foot Shipping Container), she does not run after them like our 1 year old does...

 

[David L]

Haven't heard any shots today, start of Huntin' season...patience

Be vewy, vewy quiet, haha

 

[Jimmyjames]

What do you have to drop one with? Thermal scope? just curious...

I wish I could afford a nice thermal scope. Unfortunately that’s a quite a bit beyond my price budget at this point. Currently running a Ruger 350 Legend, suppressed with Hornady 250 grain subsonic rounds. Threw a relatively cheap Sig Buckmaster scope on it and it does the job quite well without bothering the neighbors:

 

[David L]

I know, crazy, they are as much as a firearm...

Heard a couple of shots today. Guessing it is the weekend out of town Hunters.

 

[Jimmyjames]

Regular firearm doesn’t start here until the 15th. I’ve still got a little bit of trimming to do to open up my planned shooting lanes.

Looks like the same 8 pointer from last night is back:

 

[David L]

With all of these acorns this year, the deer are not going to starve this Winter...heard one rancher say when they stopped feeding them he found a couple dead one year. Guess they get dependent on their feeding spots...

Our County:

 

[David L]

Last month, well Oct., we saw alot of people trailering new Stands, ATV/UTVs, etc. out to their leases/properties getting ready for the season...our small town was busy, it will be busy every weekend till end of season...

 

[David L]

If you haven't already, check out the 2nd Amendment Thread here, some good interesting post there:

Thread '2nd Amendment thread'

Feb 15, 2021

I figured we might as well dedicate a thread to 2A issues as the imbicile puppet in the White House along with the Nazi liberal "progressive" Democrats are going to make a run at cancelling it much like they have the 1st Amendment.

This has been planned for some time and now that they know they can blatantly lie to the American people and get away with it, and being the morally corrupt and ethically bankrupt Democrats they are, they use tragedies such as the Parkland school shooting to prey on emotions of the mentally weak and naive.

Low information soccer mom's and most all stupid...

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