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Message: <blockquote data-quote="retrieverman" data-source="post: 4388554" data-attributes="member: 24452">Even with deer season over for me, I still can’t stop thinking about it, and this is the kind of random stuff I ponder.I’ve observed an interesting phenomenon over the years of hunting on the Salt Fork, and that is there are some bucks that don’t seem to want to cross the big river.  I’m sure they all do when they’re looking for loving, but it’s only rarely that I’ll see the same buck on my northern most camera and on my southern most camera which is on the south side of the river.The buck I killed last month was one of those river crossers.  I know from camera activity and actually “seeing” him that he made the round to every feeder I have, and I have little doubt to the neighbor’s too.The buck I killed in October only visited the two feeders I have in what I call “the middle” which is about 150 acres between the big river and the smaller wet weather river channel, but I know for a fact that he was visiting the neighbor’s place.These are things you learn from cameras that you would only know otherwise by sitting in the stand and in my opinion what makes them an invaluable scouting tool.</blockquote>