Tracers Deer Zone

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2017-07-01T06:00:00.001-07:00

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Discovering - Predator calling

2016-01-20T19:18:00.001-08:00

SPYPOINT INTRODUCES TWO NEW CAMERAS FOR 2016

2016-01-09T20:15:00.001-08:00

GREAT NEWS FROM THE ATA SHOW 2016

This week at the ATA show, SPYPOINT introduced two new trail cameras to their lineup for 2016.
The SPYPOINT SOLAR CAM and the FORCE-10. They will be available for purchase this April
from my store at : https://whitetailscrossing.com . Check back here for more details, reviews and videos on these two great new trail cameras next week.

Steve Mitchell

More than a dozen deer are dead and several people arrested in S - Beckley, Bluefield

2015-11-28T09:38:00.001-08:00

More than a dozen deer are dead and several people arrested in S - Beckley, Bluefield

This crime is a disgrace.

Poachers, they should have dragged their sorry assess to jail.

The Warden said that illegal deer camps are a real problem in West Virginia.

It's time for the people of that State to wake up and eradicate this poaching crime.

Steve Mitchell

Ontario, Canada

New Game Camera Store Now Open

2014-12-28T05:15:00.000-08:00

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Boxing Week Sale Now On.

This is my new web store and I welcome everyone to take a minute
and have a look around.

Steven Mitchell - Store Owner
Tracer

2014-11-09T09:29:00.002-08:00

You all need to get in your tree stand now !

Sunday, Nov.9,2014

Driving through Wasaga Beach Provincial Park, Power Line Rd, three does crossed the road in front of me. I drove a little further
down the road to turn around and return back to the spot where the does crossed to see a beauty mature 10pt buck standing there.
He was a bull, chocolate rack, nose to the ground. He continued across the road on the does trail, wind at his back.

The next three days or so you should try for all day sits in your stands.
GOOD LUCK !

Barrie,ON Cabela's Grand Opening - July 12, 2014

2014-07-12T19:22:00.000-07:00

I dropped into Cabela's new store in Barrie, ON for the Grand Opening . It's a really nice store with a great layout. Checked out the Spypoint and Xcel camera displays.

Mostly Night Time Deer Visits

2014-06-16T03:17:00.000-07:00

Regular deer visits to my ground blind/mineral station, mostly at night. I will be setting up a feeder and planting some rye grain next week. Camera type: Spypoint 3G Live cellular.

SpyPoint 3G Live On Deer

2014-06-01T05:04:00.003-07:00

My Spypoint 3G Live has been out at my ground blind/mineral site for the past two months working flawlessly. The deer are loving the RackStacker Blaze mineral that I have placed in rotted logs. I have the camera hooked up to a SpyPoint solar panel charging a 12v battery which has maintained a 100% charge.

Dark Anler Buck At the Oak Flats

2014-01-18T05:08:00.000-08:00

Brought in my Moultrie cam which had been out all Fall and it revealed this nice buck. They like this deer trail, lots of oak trees.

The Oaks Buck

2013-10-30T04:35:00.000-07:00

This guy is always showing up in the oak tree flats so I gave him the name " The Oaks Buck". I will be relocating a tree stand today and hopefully connect with this buck.

The Early Season Ten Point Buck

2013-08-25T08:26:00.001-07:00

    It all started in January of 2006 in Southern Ontario when I began scouting a new hunting area of 200 plus acres of public forest land. This area provided the ideal habitat for deer to thrive with lots of dense cover including hardwoods, cedars, hemlocks, pine reforestation areas, oak flats, swamps, wild apple orchards, creeks and ponds. It was easy to map the deer travel patterns with a foot of snow on the ground and logging trails throughout the property.This public land tract was bordered by crop fields of corn or soya beans, wheat, grain and alfalfa. I made a special note of a deer funnel that passses through the inside corner of a wild apple orchard leading to a wheat field.
     I continued to pattern deer right up to the Spring turkey hunt and set up my first trail game camera. By the first week of June, I had three tree stands in place. Throughout the summer I would move the trail cam around to different sites, where ever there was good sign. Some nice does and fawns showed up at the mineral site but no bucks. By July 1, I was cruising the backroads boarding the hunting property. The summer evenings where warm and it was the perfect time to glass the fields for bucks. On July 11, at 8:30pm, I observed two nice bucks in full velvet feeding in a wheat field with two does and two fawns. This field was a mile west of my hunting property. The following evening at 9:00 pm I observed the same two bucks feeding in the same field. With a better view this time, I noted that the one buck's rack was larger ,wider spread with eight to ten points.

In the Fall of October, 2006, the first four days of my deer hunting proved to be quite
eventful. I had three treestands set up. Stand number one was located near a water source. Stand two was located in the deep woods near a transition zone to a soybean field and stand three was set up near a series of large oak trees loaded with acorns.      Going into stand two on a Tuesday morning, the first week of bow season, I spooked a doe and her two fawns. At noon, while eating my lunch sitting in my tree stand, two coyotes walked slowly passed me. They where just five yards from me when they stopped for a moment and had no idea I was there. My crossbow was unloaded and hanging on a bow hook in the interest of safety of course, lol. The two coyotes then wandered off and I quickly finnished my lunch and got back to hunting with a loaded crossbow. Later that evening, just as I had climbed down, two fawns ran right up to me and stopped just a few yards from my feet. It was just as well. My unloaded crossbow was leaning against a tree and besides, I did not want to harvest a fawn, even though I had a doe tag. I sure wished, however, that I had the camera in hand to record the day's events.
     The next day a cold front with rain came through, so I only hunted a couple of hours at stand two with no action.
      Thursday morning I hunted at stand number one until noon, but nothing was happening. In the afternoon I moved a mile south to stand number three, which was setup fifty yards from a large oak tree. The stand was eighteen feet up and had good conifer cover. All was quite until 6:15p.m. I spotted two does coming in behind me from from the right. I watched them circle around in front of me along the edge of a field just out of range.
      The first doe continued past me and then headed toward the acorns. The other doe stopped and looked straight at me. I was thinking she was going to pick me off when suddenly she bolted and ran towards the large oak tree. I figured the game was over, so I gave a couple of grunts, as the two goofy does ran in circles.
       Then I heard a rubbing tree sound close behind me to the left. I looked over my shouldler and saw what had excited the does. A large antlered buck was slowly approaching and walked right into the middle of my shooting lane.I called out " MEE " to stop him, which he did.
       I picked a spot behind the right-shoulder and then slowly squeezed the trigger of my crossbow. I watched from just ten yards away as the arrow disappeared into the buck's rib cage, it did and donkey kicked and then took off, diappearing into the thick bush.
       That's when the adrenaline rush hit me ! I began to shake and my chest was thumping. A few seconds later I heard the buck drop.
       A total of four does crashed through the brush as they scattered in every direction and all was quite. I waited half and hour before I climbed down from my stand. I found my arrow right away. It was fully intact and covered with bright red blood. It had been a complete pass-through. Next I followed and marked the blood trail for about fifty yards. It was getting dark really fast and I was starting to lose the blood trail in the darkness, so I stopped the search and headed home.
       I resumed the search at first light, after a sleepless night. I found the buck just fifty yards from where I had stopped looking the night before. I field dressed the animal and began the long drag out to the trailer which took me three hours. I did not have a scale at the time but my buddies and I came to a consensus that the buck weighted over 200 plus pounds and was three-four years old.
       Harvesting this trophy was the result of a lot of time invested in scouting and in studing deer. To take this fine animal with a crossbow, after all the practise, made it extra special to me.

Steven Mitchell ( aka Tracer )

The Causes of Dark Deer Antlers

2013-06-30T06:44:00.000-07:00

There are six factors that are responsible for " chocolate " antlers.

1. Buck age. The older more dominant bucks make many more rubs on trees than younger bucks, therefore their antlers tend to be darker.

2. Bark colouration of the predominant rubbing trees in the region, ie pine tree sap.

3. Genetics. Some strains of bucks have light coloured racks in their DNA while others have dark.

4. Time of year. Early in the fall, "new" antlers are darker and later in the season. Antlers that have been exposed to the sun and light longer are bleached out, especially in open habitats.

5. Habitat has a lot to do with it. Bucks that live in the thick dark timber as against open areas with ample sunlight.

6. Velvet shedding. When the bucks velvet peels off the antlers, blood stains the antlers.

Ground Blind Within a Natural Blind.

2013-06-16T09:23:00.000-07:00

I've completed the setup of my ground blind for the Ontario fall bow season. The shooting lanes are cut and the blinds brushed in. Three and a half months until opening day, lots of time for the deer to get use to the blind.

Setting Up A Ground Blind For The Fall Bow Deer Hunt

2013-06-02T07:03:00.000-07:00

I recently purchased a new Ameristep Backstrap hub blind. Features are rugged hub wall design, 9 shoot through mesh window openings, quiet toggle window closures, carbon enhanced Shadowguard interior, covered in Realtree AP camouflage. Dimensions 65"H x 63" W X 65" D. I am going to set it up today( 06/2/13) in my deer hunting area in order for the deer to get accustom to it.

I found this site for the blind in March and marked it with the GPS. There is a well traveled deer trail just 20 yards to the north and several rubs in the surrounding area. This spot is in heavy cover and I had to clear an area to set up the blind. The next job is to clear some shooting lanes and clear a path to enter and exit the site.

White Deer almost hit by its own antlers

2013-02-17T05:49:00.001-08:00

http://huntervids.com/?videos=wisconsin-white-deer-surprised-by-shed-1613

This Years Target Buck

2012-09-17T19:07:00.000-07:00

Showing some decent antler growth

2012-07-07T18:59:00.001-07:00

This pic is from my Moultrie D55 cam. Setup in the woods of southern Ontario.

Positive sign at last

2012-04-15T17:44:00.000-07:00

Checked a trail cam that I had setup last week and low and behold Mr. Tom turkey made a visit. The spring turkey hunt in Ontario opens April 25.

How old is this buck ?

2012-03-27T19:25:00.001-07:00

A request to all followers to submit a guess as to how old this eight point buck is ? Hint, this is a southern Ontario whitetail deer.

Coyote passing through

2012-03-10T13:42:00.002-08:00

The One I'm After

2011-08-27T19:16:00.000-07:00

Now if I can just get him to make regular visits to my food plot in daylight hours from Oct. 1 to Dec.31 ( Ontario archery season). Preferably when I'm there in the tree stand with my crossbow.

Food Plot Visitor

2011-08-04T18:09:00.000-07:00

Duel

2011-03-12T13:07:00.000-08:00

2009 Seven Pointer

2011-01-23T11:21:00.000-08:00

This was the second young buck to come in real close to me this season and with hunting opportunities down to a few remaining weekends, I decided to take him. He walked in from the north, picked up the doe trail and headed towards me on my left about 30 yards out, lots of trees obstructing a shot(S wind,10km). He walk over to where my foot prints had crossed the doe trail and stopped to sniff. I had coon urine scent on my boots, and I had placed some Code Blue buck urine on one tree limb beside me and some doe in estrus on another limb. The buck followed my foot prints to within 10 yards of the stand slightly quartering to me. I had just one lane to get a clear shot through some fallen tree limbs,so I stopped him with a meee... and realized I had forgoten to take the safety off, the deer looked to the north turning more broadside, I squeezed off the shot, looked like a good hit. I watched his departure to the north and he disappeared into the cedars but I didn't here him crash. I waited an hour before climbing down to check my arrow which was covered with bright red blood and a lot of white hair. I waited another 1/2 hr before taking up the blood trail that was very easy to follow in the snow. I found the buck about 70 yards out just about where I had last seen him. You could tell by the melted snow that he had bedded down right there.

Recently got my 7point mount back from the taxidermist.