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Careful use of trail camera data can allow hunters to determine when bucks are more likely to be on the move.

Buck movement quantified

July 23, 2012 Bill Garbo

In last month’s column we looked at some of the methods I typically use to convert my personal trail camera photo archives into meaningful and usable “deer statistics” or “intelligence.” […]

Controlled hunting can help maintain a balance of deer in cities and towns.

Taking up residence

July 9, 2012 John J. Woods

It’s no longer a surprise to see deer in town.

“When I drove up Interstate 55 just north of Jackson where the highway merges with I-220, I saw four bucks standing beside the road,” James Bennett said. “This is right in Madison County. It was just a miracle that the deer I saw were not hit on the highway. […]

Bucks with tight narrow racks and a gritty disposition are famous for wreaking havoc on older mature bucks with wide spread antlers.

Dominance dilemma

July 1, 2012 Tommy Kirkland

In today’s age of whitetail management the understanding and practice of mandatory antler restrictions is under way. This approach primarily allows yearling bucks protection so the animals can reach whitetail maturity with sizeable racks, as well as sound age structures and buck-to-doe ratios.

Hunters afield are also starting to pass on legally harvestable bucks — giving these deer the opportunity to reach full antler growth. […]

By using the computer speadsheet format, you can easily sort and graph trail cam photo data.

Developing “deer statistics”

June 1, 2012 Bill Garbo

Common definitions of the word “statistics” are: 1) the mathematics of the collection, organization and interpretation of numerical data, or 2) the science that deals with the analysis and interpretation of numerical data. […]

Managing the data — Part 3

May 1, 2012 Bill Garbo

The pursuit by a hunter of trail-camera photo information regarding whitetail buck activity can be a labor intensive project and, as a result, the end product is absolutely what you make it to be.

My personal trail-camera goals revolve primarily around monitoring and documenting buck presence and movement activity on my hunting property before, during and after each deer-hunting season. […]

Managing the data — Part 2

April 1, 2012 Bill Garbo

Over the past several years, I have, through trial and error, developed a system that allows me to efficiently deal with multiple trail cameras and memory cards as I use them to monitor deer movement on my farm in west central Mississippi. […]

Managing the data — Part 1

March 1, 2012 Bill Garbo

My farm in west-central Mississippi is my personal field laboratory for experimentation with trail camera techniques and practices, as I continue to study and learn about local buck patterns.

When used fully and properly, trail camera data can become one of the most effective tools in a hunter or property manager’s toolbox. This is true not only from an overall deer population survey standpoint, but also from the hunter’s standpoint as one learns how to convert piles of trail camera photos into predictions about deer movement. […]

Ricky Sullivan killed this big buck, which green scored more than 200 inches Buckmaster and could be the largest deer killed in Lauderdale County, last Wednesday (Jan. 18). Pictured with him is his wife Becky

Another possible Lauderdale County record buck taken

January 23, 2012 Otha Barham

Last Wednesday (Jan. 18) was the final day of Mississippi’s Deer Management Zone 1 modern-rifle season, and Ricky Sullivan was in his shooting house as he had been countless times during the long season.

He had lived in that stand the previous week, missing only that Tuesday because of work, because bucks were running does seemingly everywhere across East Mississippi. […]

West Point's Robert Lott took this 150-class 8-point in mid December during a hunt on the family farm in Clay County.

Family farm gives up 155-inch Clay County 8-point

January 14, 2012 Glynn Harris

West Point’s Robert Lott was practically born into a deer hunter’s paradise. The 2,500-acre timber farm in Clay County on which he lives has been in his family for four generations and is loaded with deer.

Soon after Lott, his dad and younger brother, headed for their deer stands on Dec. 15, one of the farm’s monarchs stepped into the crosshairs of his scope. That buck, a product of careful management, later scored in the mid 150s Boone & Crockett. […]

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