Hilltop
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Great bucks everyone. John, that 9 year old is a pretty cool buck- hope you get a chance at him. Packmule- How old do you put the double drop buck?
Whitetail trail cam
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Got a couple new ones on the camera last week. Acorns are falling like rain and new bucks are coming out of the woodwork to feed. Should make for a decent couple of weeks if the wind is right. Have 8 different shooters across four properties this year. Great year for antler growth, and hopefully I can connect with the bow and save myself having to buy a MN gun tag.
New split G2 buck
New clean 10 with long main beams
The big 8 from a previous post in hard horn
New split G2 buck
New clean 10 with long main beams
The big 8 from a previous post in hard horn
Hilltop
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That's awesome packmule. You going to take him if he comes in or give him another year? The new one looks pretty good...
tdcour
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Finsandtines
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I had 2 deer I was hunting this year and ended up seeing them both last week. Saturday my buddy sat in one of my stands and missed the one in velvet (pic was taken mid August so he was a bit bigger). I saw him an hour later but he hung up 40 yds other side of thicket eating corn the farmer spilled on the ground. The blurred pic deer was shot by the same buddy the next day. Guess I am a good friend!
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Finsandtines
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I seem to be plagued with the upside down pic syndrome in addition to it being "one of those years"!
New one is a stud 4yo buck that I watched quite a bit last year. He Summers on another guys place and Winters with us. I told him he'd better kill him during archery season if he had plans of getting it done. I'm not going to shoot the drop tine deer, my wife can if she wants to and I won't care one way or the other. The wide deer I had my hopes set on seeing this year got shot during bow season by a different neighbor (we have 9 bordering neighbors) and he reverted back to his 2013 frame that wasn't quite as wide, but threw an extra brow tine.
I saw a buck Sunday morning at 1100yds for a few seconds that will haunt my dreams until there's some sort of closure. I hadn't seen the deer since the end of 2013 and he's been living under a rock or something because I don't know anyone who wouldn't have shot him as a 4yo in 2013. Now he's 6 and got over 40" of rain from Jan-June to give his 12pt main frame a boost and throw some extras. I took a slow stroll up that way later that morning hoping to see him cross some of the roads through the thickets after a doe and didn't see him, but took some cameras with me and put them on some ground scrapes I found along the way. Hopefully I can get a better look at everything on him and try to formulate a game plan. The fact I haven't seen him much doesn't give me a lot of hope, but weirder things have happened.
Thank you. Mainly just habitat management and being really picky about what gets shot. I don't worry about culling anything, although I will shoot 1 buck that would fit that definition if I see him. He's too old and rack is too funky to the point he's dangerous to the other bucks that might bow up to him. I liked him back in 2012 & 13 seasons, but something happened to him injury-wise for his rack to go from funky to just plain ugly over the past 2 years.
On the bright side, he always had a can opener with him.
Matthoek21
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I hope so, I have some issues I need to work out.
Sat evening....
Sun when it got daylight
I wish they'd all go extinct.
Matthoek21
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Matthoek21
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Not good. That's how they get in GA to. Hogs are smart critters. They get educated quick. You need a night vision scope and a 30 round magazine or Hawg Dawgs.
Finsandtines
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Let me know when you need some help with those things, I got a lotta ammo to burn to help make em go extinct. That's one great thing about Ohio, for now!