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Totally new in hunting, just pass my test and ready for my first gun season.
For personal reasons I don't have time to scout 'til mid october maybe.
But since I live very close to a Reservation and having access to free apples then I decided why not to try
to scout for deer close to me, I think if I am able to find and pattern deer here I will be able to find them in my hunting zone.
I usually take my children for a walk in the reservation and we see some deer, last time a nice one jump about 10 yards from my child,
there were about 8 deer about 20 yards far from us, and we were loud ! I usually see deer when I drive by the zone and see footprints
in my walks, but when I look for them I don't see nothing !
To the point:
I took some pounds of apples and put them far from hiking trails, marked the place of course. That was Thursday about 5 pm.
I came back Sunday noon, and... I found NONE of them, they just dissapeared, no track of them, no footprints... no signs of leftovers,
looks like something came and just pick them up, ALL of them, I found nothing, zero, nada ! I took pictures when I left and I can say some stones or branches
were moved, just that.
I was testing "GPS Essentials" android app in my cel. for waypoints and try to find the "bait place"... problems with signal from satellites and unable to mark
my waypoints due that. free version and battery eater. btw somebody here use it, some feedback?
So now I am really curious and thinking to get some affordable cam in order to know wtf is going on!
any idea? I have no experience so I don't know if this is what I should expect.
For personal reasons I don't have time to scout 'til mid october maybe.
But since I live very close to a Reservation and having access to free apples then I decided why not to try
to scout for deer close to me, I think if I am able to find and pattern deer here I will be able to find them in my hunting zone.
I usually take my children for a walk in the reservation and we see some deer, last time a nice one jump about 10 yards from my child,
there were about 8 deer about 20 yards far from us, and we were loud ! I usually see deer when I drive by the zone and see footprints
in my walks, but when I look for them I don't see nothing !
To the point:
I took some pounds of apples and put them far from hiking trails, marked the place of course. That was Thursday about 5 pm.
I came back Sunday noon, and... I found NONE of them, they just dissapeared, no track of them, no footprints... no signs of leftovers,
looks like something came and just pick them up, ALL of them, I found nothing, zero, nada ! I took pictures when I left and I can say some stones or branches
were moved, just that.
I was testing "GPS Essentials" android app in my cel. for waypoints and try to find the "bait place"... problems with signal from satellites and unable to mark
my waypoints due that. free version and battery eater. btw somebody here use it, some feedback?
So now I am really curious and thinking to get some affordable cam in order to know wtf is going on!
any idea? I have no experience so I don't know if this is what I should expect.