Filming Summer Bucks

Jake from OHIO asks,



Hi Bill, Hope all is well. My question involves summer scouting and watching velvet bucks. Do you think its a bad idea to film velvet bucks from your box blind in August? How concerned are you about pressuring bucks during summer months? Appreciate you sharing your thoughts. Good luck this fall. -Jake Justus




Bill responds,


Topic: Filming Summer Bucks:

Filming Summer Bucks

I would not be too worried about potentially alerting bucks in the summer when filming on the fields. Definitely do all you can to sneak in and out just like you would when hunting those areas. A certain percentage of the bucks you film in the summer (probably more than half) will disperse to a new fall range anyway prior to hunting season.

Jake,

I don’t worry about it at all if I am not in the box blinds. I would shy away from the blinds though and use alternate filming spots on the ground nearby.  

Though some of the bucks will disperse to a new fall range, some will stay and you don’t want them associating danger with the blind.

As mentioned, many of the bucks you film in August will have dispersed to a new fall range by the end of September anyway and they won’t be at all worried about some spooky event that happened along the edge of a field on the other side of the farm a month ago.  

Try to be as sneaky as you can on your exit.  In fact, pick spots to film from that you can get away from easily without alerting deer.  But I would not worry too much about pressure summer bucks. Good luck. (8/18/22)

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