Thanks Bill, we had a wonderful Christmas. Praying that you and your family have a wonderful new year 😉❤️🙏

Bill, first, I would like to wish you and all your followers, family, and friends happy holidays. Second, every since you and midwest show were referred to me back in 2012, I learn something new from you no matter what the content is. Thank you for everything you do for us hunters and outdoorsman. Abdullah

Thanks Bill for the updates. Wishing you, your family and the entire team a Happy and Blessed New Year ! Brandon

Good luck tomorrow. This has been a warm season here in NC. I went with cheap security cameras on my property. They work good as long as you can can get a Wi-Fi signal and power to them. We have had just as much fun watching the wildlife in real time. Look forward to your next update.

Good update Bill, looks like the weather is finally starting to turn a bit so I'm excited to see how your season finishes out!

Good Luck Hunting! As soon as I'm over this stupid sickness I'll be heading out here in Pennsylvania for hopefully a late season buck. I still have 3 shooters around but like your deer the movement is mostly at night. A couple are either moving earlier out towards food in the evening and heading to bed later in the morning so if they can mess up 20 to 30 minutes either way I may get my chance. Thank you for all your helpful information you have shared over the years through your videos and articles written.

Same thing here Bill. I haven’t been there since the end of November. While I’m glad several targets made it through, it seems they move to food at 10pm or so. They have moved to bedding on the southwest slope to stay warm. Covid hit me like a ton of bricks the week before Christmas. All better now but not optimistic about tagging a mature buck this year. It is my favorite time of the year to explore the terrain and learn. Into February

Great video. I'm getting the same night movement on my place in Arkansas. I agree with having two cameras to really understand what is happening on a plot. Last year, I did get daytime pictures in an area that has briars, oak regeneration , and just a high stem count, brushy with some cedars. I will be checking those cameras soon

Hey Bill, well my season is officially done. Went out December 23rd evening after my target buck and decided to pull a nearby camera card while going to the stand. Checked the photos that night at home my target buck was there Dec. 21st and shed his right side.....bummer. Two years of pictures of him, not 1 daylight picture yet, so I will be watching your episodes the next year for tips and tricks on getting these deer into daylight. Merry Christmas and have a safe new year!

Late season has been rough all over IMO; NJ here and it's hit or miss. I would throw nearly every cam into the location with your target and try to see where he is coming and going. Good Luck! We can't wait to see how the last 2wks of the season unfolds

Wishing you and your family all the best in the new year.

Another good video Bill, looking forward to seeing the kids back at it!

We too are seeing the same thing. Not a lot of daylight activity. Mostly doe & fawn but the buck we are seeing are spikes & forks. Glad Jordan has improved. That is good.

Wow what a nice set up ,that's what dream's hunting location look's like ,great video .

same song and dance in tennessee. i am getting some morning and evening activity on a 3 acre corn plot, but no shooters. calling for several days of colder than average temps, hoping to get something traveling through. good luck on the rest of the season, and all your endeavors !!

Happy holiday's, Bill! Your inventory looks alot better than mine! Sure is some weird weather as we close in on January already. Still snow free here in Northern WI. Good luck the rest of the season!

Looks like your dog really enjoyed checking the cameras with you! Enjoyed watching!

Happy New Year!! Hard to tell exactly, but it looks like you have a pretty good buck-to-doe ratio. Depending on the other hunters with food plots in your area, you likely are seeing a 2-3 mile radius of deer drawn to your property. I wonder where all the big bucks are unless they are simply not finding your food plots from surrounding properties. While big bucks tend to be homebodies and can live on the acorns/browse, I would expect to pull some additional bigger bucks from surrounding properties. Wishing you more of what you hope for in 2024 Bill!

Number 8 looked like a heavy 10 plus in there ar night!? Best of luck Bill!

Just goes to show you how nocturnal those deer can be even without pressure. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Bill. 🎄🎉

Happy New Year Bill, appreciate the update. I think it’s weird that there are hardly any daylight photos, with hardly any pressure, makes no sense. Best of luck hunting.

Hi Bill, unfortunately my season ends on the 31st. Not sure I an going to even go out. The lack of does, heavy hunting pressure from the neighbors and lack of bucks makes me believe they could use a break. Besides almost all of my pictures are at night. I am worried because my brassica plot has began to rot from the temps being so warm. Not sure when winter actually comes if the plots will offer them any food between now and spring green up. Thanks for the update and have a safe and happy new.

Spots 7&8 look amazing!!!I have finicky cameras too. When they don't like a card, it will show error. If I keep pulling the card out and putting it back in until the error isn't showing, and it's showing the date and time, they work great. It took a while to learn that though.

Very well produced and edited video. I really loved the aerials showing the camera locations and plus the photos of the bucks with the moon in the background was awesome. If you do another similar video, can you show what direction the cameras are facing. Always remember that just because they didn't come in front of your cameras doesn't mean they weren't 10 feet from their view. Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year.

Hi Bill, Always enjoy your videos. My guess is the day time activity is close to the acorns. Good luck for the rest of the season.

Hey hey Bill,Merry Christmas and hopefully a Good New Year.Its been one heck of a strange fall and winter up here.Rain rain rain,up in the 40s and no snow on ground.I got that Covid virous for over 5 weeks during our major rut and I couldn’t hunt.

Happy new year bill , good luck

Spot 7 and 8 definitely looks the best , that one buck looks good to me, good luck

Hunting my last 2 days in Nebraska, daylight is tuff just hope to get lucky. Good luck to you!!

Hey Bill, thanks for posting. This was very educational and definitely confirms the behavior I assumed was occurring based on what I've seen afield over the past couple weeks. I did want to call your attention to camera 8. There is a huge 8 point that was captured on 11/26 at 9:46 pm

Deer season ended for us weeks ago and my season was short as tagged out quickly. Living thru your videos now 😂 shed season next

That's why the good Lord invented the Flintlock. Happy New Year Bill! 🦌

Been really strange season this year in the northeast As well bill In my particular area there has been no pressure for over a month And the deer are still mainly nocturnal Don't fully understand it But still wholeful to punch my last tag Happy New Year and good luck

What a beautiful farm Bill, dreaming Big one day to have one similar. I almost wonder if some more edge feathering would go along way on your place for cleaner less visual access. Those hills are tough, i see the same where i hunt in big hill country. They almost always have the birds eye view. Have a wonderful New Year

Merry Christmas and a blessed healthy new year Bill for you and your family Really enjoyed your reading a Christmas story from the Bible Watching all your videos of your new farm hopefully teaches a great many deer hunters even Iowa arguably the best big WT buck state on earth has only so many big bucks and they are not living on or in every block of timber in Iowa You have my admiration for being so persistent best of luck To be absolutely honest I am significantly shocked so few of your deer are showing up in daylight you obviously have a good deer density on your farm but unless there is significant hunt pressure in your area I can not imagine why they are feeding only at night and even if they're is significant pressure in your area its not so on your land I have considerable experience hunting late season private land and the farms I hunted (3 over 5 years) were all under 200 acres and surrounded by heavily hunted farms but I was one of only 3 hunters on the farm and he hunted very smart and carefully to minimize our impact and always saw good daylight deer movement and we has no food plots only left over harvested crops or good acorn crops Very perplexing

you are doing a lot better than me, my knee has really been hurting so i took 15 days off hunting during muzzleloader. i got back out and checked my cam yesterday morning, not one single deer went by in 15 days.....very depressing.

All that nighttime activity on good food sources seems like a good testament for cold snowy late season conditions. I gotta believe you’d have much more daytime activity if it were cold and snowy. Around my area in Wisconsin anyway this winter has been as mild as I can ever remember.

Good luck.

I had my big 10 show up last night that has been gone for a month, and before that he was gone all of November, was good to see him, and I got another giant that has been showing up a lot on another place, bad thing is I have no stands hung, but there all middle of night pictures tho, other than a couple days he was in there right at daylight but it's thick mountain country so there is no way to hunt off the ground without out getting busted, I got busted twice in an hr trying to watch a big thick holler so I just left, I was thinking about taking my climber in there but it's so noisy it makes me nervous, lord knows they won't put up with much this time of yr, great video as always bill!!!

Haven't checked my cards yet... shop has got me busy! Maybe we'll get a little late season magic Bill - dreaming til the end! :)

Your dog is having a good time.lol

I was in Waukon yesterday during the snow, hopeful it would turn something on at home, only the strong wind turned on at home. Only two sits left for me to wrap up my season, this afternoon I’m going against all odds and heading into the woods very close to a bedding area. 40degrees 😳 with the best wind for that spot. Tomorrow it’s a stand stuffed in a big old cedar right on the edge of the food plot with the most promise. Thanks for your updates, if nothing else you’re not alone with the end of the season blues. Happy New Year

Try a panoramic camera over a smaller food plot or edge they are perfect for inventory. Any hidey hole plots hooked up to a solar battery!

Bill, do you have other cameras spread throughout the timber? I leave my cameras out for an entire season and typically go get them at some point in early to mid-January depending on snow depth. I don’t check them during the season unless I’m walking relatively close to one on the way to one of my sits. I’ve got a few cell cams that I use, but primarily they’re regular cameras. The cell cams are in key high traffic areas or key bedding so I can have an idea of what bucks are in the area during the season. However, I learn more from the cameras that I leave out all season. Those areas are typically undisturbed all season and I get to see when the deer like to use certain areas over others. It doesn’t help you that season, but historically it’s great intel and surprisingly reliable in future years. There’s just certain areas that the deer tend to use heavily for about a week or so and then it’s very sparse. I’ve noticed a ton of consistency throughout the years often times to the day. What I have noticed is that some years the “whole cycle”, if you will, starts sooner or later than other years. But generally the timelines after become fairly predictable. Obviously, each year is different- heavy mast crop years change things but if you compare each heavy mast crop year you’ll notice similar trends between those years that differ from other years. I’ve learned a lot since I started doing this with my cameras. The cell cams let me know when they actually show up, but the historical data is pretty darn close and I know more about how they use the property once they’re here from that. Before I used to find the sign which is good, but I felt like I was always a few days behind the “burst” of activity in a specific area. Since I started doing this I can have an idea when that activity is going to start and have increased the amount of nice bucks I see in small parcels that don’t handle a lot of pressure well.

I hear ya on the other brand cams not liking certain SD cards … I’m sticking w/ exodus only going forward. Had an Exd. for 3 seasons now & not 1 issue. Best of luck in next 2 weeks… we need a brutal cold front to blow in & last a few days after NY, no such thing as a nocturnal buck then!

oh man my heart just relaxed when i was watching photos of your property, wow outstanding, good for you, i did see a mature i believe 10 pt on camera 8, definitely a shooter, but hard to tell , took me a while to rewind and capure him , but the nicest buck i saw on the film, anyway i saw the Golden retriever making his own scrape lol , what beautiful property, can you say how much acreage your hunting on that farm, ? i totally understand if not, Thank you for inspiring me to keep my dream alive , hopefully one day i can own and take care of a farm like your,!! Great job, good luck, Deer hunting for me , expectations are alwsys a let down , but being inspired is what keeps me alive! Happy New year, God bless!

Don Higgins would have a stroke riding around checking cams like that lol. You check out the thermal regs yet. I think in that hill and valley layout it is so easy for unseen deer to pattern you.

Bill, I have noticed the same thing on the nocturnal bucks here in western IL. I haven’t had but one day with daylight buck pictures in two weeks. Very little hunting presssure. I did take a doe during our late antlerless season opener, and have had somewhat frequent pictures of does and button heads during daylight, but even younger antlered deer stayed on nights. 12 different bucks since Dec 15th. I can only wonder if it’s weather related as we haven’t had those extreme cold temps that make them want to get midday sun? Weird late season for sure. It will be interesting to see what the next couple of weeks bring weather wise and how the bucks change patterns.

Seein same thing here in mich. Lots of night movement. Does and sml bks. 3 days left to get some does. Good luck.

Bill enjoy all your videos been following you a long time all my pictures are between midnight and 3 am also but like you said it's hopeful when you see a target buck still on his feet

Agreed late season is sucking. Been way too warm

Ruts just startin to tickle here, jan 18th here is equivalent to your nov 7th, 10th or so being halloween, weather good, took a nice 4 year old yesterday workin a mock scrape on a baby turnip killplot clearly feeling very very randy 😮 , if i were a man of more means, i swear id be hunting ruttin whitetail from nov 1 to feb 10, standard rut plus something leased or outfitter over towards the Mississippi river for the dec rutting or north georgia dec as well I think, and if not we actually have a section in bama that ruts dec ..restocked deer in 70s from all over i think is why..especially the ones that came from barrier islands off southern coasts..Then north bama for first 2 weeks of jan, im in the blackbelt, i get peak conception here yearly on jan 20ish, mostly couple days later if any difference. But lockdown starts late 19th to 20ish, then last few days of jan and all way to feb 10th is sweet hunting, last day is feb 10th 😂 , i like the downhill side of peak breeding more than the front side cuzz i think i see more visitors ive never seen and sometimes almost frantic movement as the hot does run out and the party is over, But brother you need you a lil spot down here in the blackbelt, we put on plenty of inches to, if they make it to 5, just not as heavy, 230 lbs yesterday , no booner, but rut aint even here yet and i got a pefect 8 with footlong or better 2s rightly dubbed "footlong" i fully intend on gettin schooled by the rest of the year...and get 3 buck tags... All the does you want. Gotta getcha some brother ! And i see 160 and ups fall every year here, i know not one single person thats ever reported to record books..but they are here ifthey get old enough. Thx for the content, we go back a looooooòoong time. Still good to hear your thoughts on this stuff, killed alotta good bucks incorporating topics youve wrote on over the "decades" 😂.. glad your still with us brother

for the ridge where there wasn't any daylight activity, could it be that it is too far from good bedding. creating some cover cover closer to the corn in future years would get them bedding closer, make them feel more secure and move during daylight?

Have you done any hunting around the apple trees?

Just another thought watching this,you have all your stands in the field or on the edge. I have 28 ladder stands and ALL of them are a minimum of 20 yds in the timber, is there a reason most are not in the timber ? Just curious.

Interesting, I wonder it there would be an opportunity to hunt back in the timber and try to catch that shooter on his way to the field? I did that once and set up a 1/4 mile in and got a buck that never came to the food before dark. I just followed the trail back to where it started branching in the snow and hung a stand. Took a couple days but he gave me a 20 yrd shot.

That card error is always a punch in the guts after having it out forever

Great video Thanks for posting. Man thats a lot of cameras. I upgraded to Spypoint cell cameras. Hated making the trips to the woods. Couldn't help but notice that you ran into the same problem as me. Most pics were at night. I ran into the same thing her in Eastern MN. Most all my pics were at night from the beginning of Nov through end of Dec. (MN). I hunt public so leaving the cameras out can be risky. I put the cameras about 10 ft in the trees so its not reachable. I get really good pics. (see my most recent video). Have you considered mounting the cams on the blinds? Get them up in the air? You should get a reach of 80 ft or so depending on your cameras? Good luck on rest of your season.

I thought there were 2 good bucks but maybe they were the same ones! Man this video didn't give me a lot of inspiration to go hunt michigan public land😂. Hopefully, something shows up for you yet! Have a blessed New Year!

Nice video Bill, I enjoy trailcam pictures just as much as hunting videos! Thanks bub

Generally speaking as biologist love to say, matures don't move much in late season. They can live, lay and feed in just a few acres.

I did find out that your state tree nursery does sell to out of state folks .Virginia seems to have the cheapest price when buying 1000 bare root shrubs .Most 30 something cents .

Same here nocturnal and/or nothing to get excited about on corn

Dream Big brother 🙏

Try cellular trail cameras. SPYPOINT is a great option.

Mine have been nocturnal since 1st week of gun. Not sure why. Minimal hunting pressure here and we ve been keeping away.

Try Sandisk Ultra 32 GB cards, I sell a ton of Cuddeback cameras and those cards seem to work the best in them. I’m in your area so if you ever need some or have questions on the Cuddebacks I’m more than happy to help👍🏻

Happy New Year question for you is proper entrance and exits to stand location’s you would like to hunt been challenging on this property

What is the electric vehicle Bill is using?

Late season is pretty tough. Seems like the deer at your place are traveling far to feed. I've been gun hunting wis late hunt on public. Seen nothing. I will continue this weekend to end my season. Maybe get lucky.

Bill , if i recall from the old mw days , you were super attentive on scent control while checking cameras. If u remember rubber boots , hip waders , gloves , airpak and respirator. Ok not the last one . Has that opinion changed? Couldn’t tell if you had waders but for sure no gloves.

Bill what do ya say about mornin set at this point in the year?

Everything is so different after gun season, my cameras drop right off after getting photos in the same spots all summer and fall right up through about the first week of gun. The deer change their patterns, I get some on camera but fewer and far between. Obviously many of the buck have been shot realize that, but even doe numbers drop way off. In my county approx 4000 deer die during all seasons in a given year so just give you a little perspective on numbers.

Is there a reason why you don’t use like a Spartan Camera or a digital camera?

Nice..Im surprised you didn't get coyotes on the cams ,unless you decided not to post them...Wishin you all good fortune...

What is the name or brand of the 4 wheel electric bike you're using ? Thank you

Curious as to what the electric vehicle is your riding? Looks like a very good back country rig.

Most of my pictures are middle of the night on nice corn and turnip plots with no pressure Since middle of November...has been that way all season..😔

Time for tactacam cell cameras. After all the man who owns the company lives up that way.

What is that electric buggy. Are you happy with it?

have you walked the perimeter of your property to see if they are leaving or coming

Do your neighbors have the same problem with deer not daylighting? I have to believe that the amount of intrusion and traffic even to just check cameras has to have an impact on the deer behavior, bedding, overall activity. Would be a great study next season to do one half of the farm the same as you are doing this year and the other half with cell cameras and no intrusion other than to hunt and see if anything changes.

Any more pictures of the one big buck off limits? Or did someone else kill it already

Bill I remember you saying the placed you leased prior to owning this farm wasn't very far. What do you see as far as mature buck from that lease to your farm? Seems from pictures there are very few mature bucks on your farm compared to that lease. Why do you think that is?

@7:24 looks good to me!

Why would you not run the Cudde link cameras or cell cameras?

Talk about food plots 😂😂😂 I will stick to the NE and actually have to hunt!!

Do you think your deer are maybe nocturnal because of your camera checking pressure ? I assume if you ran cells that would mean less impact or more daylight movement. I’m sure you’ve thought of that already. It’s hard to believe you have so little daytime activity with such great food. What’s missing ?

Need cameras back in timber. Might be time to install a bedding cut closer to that corn field you all hunted so much that had only nighttime photos?

I never seen so much nocturnal activity this time of year.

Any reason you dont use cell cams?

How do you explain why the deer become nocturnal even on land that has no pressure, plenty of cover, and plenty of food. This year seems to be a strange year for deer movement over a lot of the country. I hunt public land only but this year we aren't even seeing deer in the fields or crossing the roads before daylight and after dark. There seems to be way less hunters this year also. There are lots of well used trails, plenty of rubs and scrapes, and a bumper crop of acorns this year. No matter who you talk to, they are also saying all their pics on trail cams are all after dark and no pics during shooting hours. I have every other weekend and sometimes days in a row in consecutive weeks and jave only seen maybe a dozen deer all year and haven't seen a buck (not even a spike) all year. It's always hard hunting public land and late season but this year something has really changed. It's like the deer have evolved into a higher intelligent species. Everyone thinks the deer just aren't there. I beg the differ with all the sign I see in the woods. Any ideas or tips that may be helpful as you mentioned you have seen this before during your hunting career.

nice. thank you. Deer cams on public land here show basically nothing. They're gone.

How come no cameras deep in the woods. All the cameras are in the open ,in the woods you wood get more deer during daylight hours.

Any predator action on camera...yotes or cats? I still think the deer are working on establishing their patterns due to the new food sources and 2024 will be a banner year for you.

god i h8 it when for no apparent reason a cam will not put pics on the sd card. ive had the cam red flash me like its working and then find out it hasnt stored a pic for months. its 2023 unreal how horrible this shit works.

no cameras around any of your better apple trees? some should be holding good apples.

card error , the worst thing to see happens to me more than it should. i have a bad habit of using sd cards too long

At 8:50 on the video, was that an albino do standing there?

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