How are your trail cams looking this year?

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We've got a lot more hogs coming in this year than last... my buddy and I that share a lease plan on trying to hammer them hard in Sept and early October and hopefully run them off before they start to impact our deer herds...

As usual we have an abundance of does (we really need to cull the population down a bit this year).. and only a handful of bucks coming in... We're surrounded by a much larger lease that honestly is over manned, and they dont appear to have any rules in place.. I get the impression they are an "if its brown, its down" sort of club.. which makes hunting nice bucks at our place a bit of a challenge..

We do have 2 pretty nice, older, large rack, bucks that are unafraid of daylight coming to the feeders on a fairly regular schedule this year.. Im hoping we can take one (or both) during bow season, before our neighbor lease starts shooting up the place and knocking down everything that moves while the sun is up...

This one in particular keeps a very consistent schedule, and always travels alone (the other big boy has a smaller, younger buck in tow with him most of the time)...

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We have to take ours down by July 31-which blows because the best pix come later in the season. There are lots of elk this year and some nice mule deer bucks, fingers crossed for a good season
 
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I need to get mine going. It is fun but a job for me here at the ranch. Plenty of culling to do this year as always.
 
I let my feeders run out of corn this year as I had to move one feeder. I just refilled and the cameras are back on. The deer are just starting to come back. I’ve only seen a couple of small bucks and a ton of hogs at the feeder I had to move, because of the hogs. I have no clue how to get rid on those damn things.
 

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