Last weekend was Youth Gun Deer Season. This was the day my daughter and I have been waiting for since mid summer. We got up at 5:00 am and put on our scent free clothes. We ate breakfast at the gas station. We started our walk to the deer stand as soon as we could barely make out the trail.
We didn't see anything after sitting in the stand for 3 hours. When we decided to get out of the stand we scouted up the hillside to the southwest of us. I've been wanting to put a stand up there but hadn't gotten around to looking around up there for a while. We found rubs. We found tracks. We found poop. We found every indication that deer are up there. We just didn't see deer.
We did put a motor and timer on the manual "on-demand" feeder that was broken by the racoon earlier this summer. We placed it up the hollow and on the opposite side of the creek from the cabin site about 200 yards. We filled it with corn and acorn rage deer attractant.
I then replaced the batteries in the camera and set it up to oversee the feeder operations.
The camera got rained on real good for the first time on October 10 and I believe it I have a problem with it. The LCD screen wouldn't let me change any settings. I won't know if it's working until I get up there again to swap out SD cards. Maybe I can make it up this coming weekend. We'll see. If the camera fails, I'll definately do a review on it. Granted, it was the cheapest one I could find....and it has taken decent picture up to now, but if it fails after only a few months of service...that just won't work.
