Man I had a deer a couple of years ago that was a damn camera hero as a 3.5 year old. Daylight pics out of the ying-yang. I do like I always do and kept most of them....

Enter the next year. He is now 4.5 years old. A little more secretive, not as prone to daylight pictures, etc. I had a daughter that was going to be born on Jan 2nd (c-section), so I knew that I had to make him roll over and play dead before rut. Fun fun fun. So, I start pouring over all of the daylight pictures from the year before. I'm talking everything from the wind direction, speed, barometric pressure, moon phase, weather frontal conditions, you name it. I had like 300 pictures with which to try to do my analysis with from the year before..and then a hundred or so pictures of him from the current year (I was starting this in like December of that year)...and I came up with nothing. Nada. Zero.

No rhyme or reason...other than he got up on his feet alot more in the month of January (which we all know anyway) in the daylight.

Like someone else said...I think that SOB came when he got hungry.

I even went as far as to put 4 cameras on a single tree in the middle of the field to try to determine a predominant direction that the deer came into the field from...and came up with: The SOB came from where he wanted to, when he wanted to. North, South, East, and West.

I got very lucky and very blessed to be able to take that deer in mid December before my daughter was born.

My point is: I don't really think that you can "patten" some deer. Conversely, you can pattern some deer very well. It all depends on the deer, in my opinion.

I know that lots of guys disagree with this...but I run my trail cameras during season. A lot. They will show you when they want to die. I promise.

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