Join nationally acclaimed wildlife consultant and WO’s Director of Field Operations Neil Dougherty for some trail camera scouting. Neil has rigged 3 hunting locations with remote BuckEye Cams at WO’s 200 acre Deer Hunting and Research Property in Southwestern NY. The BuckEye Cams are downloading pictures 24-7 to this website putting you in the middle of the action at the click of a mouse!
Join the “WO Nation” by “weighing in” with some whitetail watching of your own. Tell us what you are seeing out there and what your cameras are recording. Post your reports here and give Neil some help with his bi-weekly blog and check it every day for important updates.
Here is a sample entry of Neil's Into the Rut blog:
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The cameras have been telling an interesting tale over the past week. Things are starting to heat up and the fall hunting season in quickly becoming very interesting. For those of you following the WOW cameras online you may have noticed a few new bucks showing up on camera over the past couple of days. Good news for those of us following the rut, great news if you’re lucky enough to be hunting.
So what’s happening? Biologically speaking, bucks experience a testosterone increase as the fall approaches. Around the first of September the boys of the woods start to experience meaningful increases in testosterone. It takes about forty-five days for the testosterone level to peak. How much of an increase you may wonder? The testosterone level doubles between September and mid October. Let that sink in for a moment, could you imaging what it would be like to double your testosterone level, let alone double it in a forty-five day period, talk about inducing full blown “road rage.” Not only are bucks becoming more aggressive but they will often gain about thirty percent body weight during the same forty-five day period.
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