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Pressure on Whitetail Deer on Small Property
Most hunters don't understand how big a deal pressure is on daylight movement on SMALL properties. Also most game camera user don't understand the wealth of information they are missing by only having cameras out part of the year and not keeping records.
11 Years worth of data on this property alone.
Little Game Camera History at the Turkey Buzzard Ranch
Bought property in spring of 2007.
2007 - 632 photos
2008 - 8,746 photos
2009 - 24,064 photos
2010 - 14,692 photos
2011 - 159,115 photos
2012 - 172,446 photos
2013 - 229,290 photos
2014 - 303,572 photos
2015 - 391,008 photos
2016 - 327,093 photos
2017 – 414,477 photos
2018 – 141,883 photos and counting * Feed and Mineral Ban implemented in July*
After reviewing 300,000 game camera photos from 2015 season and breaking them down to individual deer and also understanding the Activity on my property and how the changes deer to night time movement. Also understanding the data from previous years trends float to the surface. Deer Movement is circled in RED.
Activity - Calendar
Activity
Jan - Trapping running ATV and shooting going on everyday.
Feb - Chainsaw and Management Activities going on.
March - Chainsaw and Management Activities going on.
April - Management Activities increase before Turkey Season then turkey season hunting on property.
May - Turkey First half of of May
June - Very little Activity trying to keep stress low for antler growth and fawning.
July - Very little Activity trying to keep stress low for antler growth and fawning.
August - Activity is very low other than population survey
September - Bow season no ATV or shooting guns allowed
October - Bow season
November - Bow Season - Gun Season Opens for youth and fall
December Trapping running ATV and shooting going on everyday.
August Population Survey - Before and After Mineral and Feed Ban
August Only Photos
2011 - 52,000
2012 - 91,000
2013 - 82,000
2014 - 132,000
2015 - 188,000
2016 - 137,000
2017 - 188,000
Ban on Minerals and Feed in place in July.
2018 - 28,700
