The first couple days of the season were like this last year. Fortunately I scored on the 2nd like 20 minutes after shooting light in the morning. I think it was 80 in saginaw county by noon that day. It wasn't too bad but I made preparations. Wore my wife's gardening hat with the mesh screening around my head. One layer top and bottom. Wore goretex sneakers instead of boots. Thermacell. Both days there was a cloud of skeeters set up like a wall just outside of the thermacell range waiting to pounce. Gutting was a little miserable but I think I field dressed it in like 4 minutes and got to moving again to get em off of me.
I can't imagine running that many cams on public lol. I just run 2 cheapies and move em around. Never had one stolen but probably just a matter of time. Down here I always just assume there's a couple other people hunting the area and a couple more that will mosey through scouting even though I prioritize getting away from other hunters. Like I just did I put them out Sunday afternoon and will try to grab them Saturday afternoon. I never intend to leave them up over a whole weekend although sometimes life gets in the way of retrieval and reset. Also try not to place the cams in too obvious of a spot or anywhere they can be seen from more then like 10 yards away unless someone gets a lucky glance.
I will be out all weekend until I kill a deer. Gonna be a climber and crossbow style weekend extravaganza. If I kill a deer early enough in the weekend I will be out after that too. I will be in Saginaw county Saturday AM in a very good area to pop a early season doe. Done it 3 of the last 4 years. Only year I didn't I was hunting a buck that early season that I killed. I will be in saginaw county until I can put a deer down. If/when that happens I will be switching to lapeer county to grab my cam, check it and if nothing better on it go try to get a better look at what I think is a 2 year old 8 I got a couple crappy pictures of in the afternoons traveling with what I think is a couple sparkies....a spike and a 6. Really hard to see in the pics but I think that's what they are. Some does too I might be tempted to shoot there.
It's not really crazy at all imo. Especially if you have an idea where their bedding is.
I think she either ran into a tree on the death run or from dragging her back to the 2 track. She had a little bald spot on her head also. She was also like a weird spot where she was half summer coat but the winter hairs were coming in in areas also. Didn't seem unhealthy in any way. She was milking also shot her out of a group of 4.
I've got a pic of right when I walked up on her and that's not on her shoulder in the 1st pic so must've been from the drag.
