Been trailing deer in the snow the last few days, just to see their trails. Yep, season starts in six months, and I plan on having the first one on ground in six months one day. :D Well maybe!! Due to bad wind, wrong angle, bow malfunctions, arrows crooked, and ect. have been known to miss. 8) Set my camera out today will post pictures in a couple of days.
Deer watching? We usually watch deer come to the fields in April as the snow melts out. No deer around here to watch, not a track since October 2007. A lot died from last winter, but where did they go before the snows? Mystery. :-X
Ya dont have to waite that long. Boys around here season dont end. If they have horns that is. There is a house i drive by in arkansas that has a tall fence in the front yard. I always wonderd why. it looks like a prison fence. There is nice buck in there. Still with its rack on today. the pin is only 30 by 30 ft at the most. I feal sorry for the buck.
took this picture of buck with one horn yet. Hopefully he will lose it in next week. From the size of him will probably pass on him this year and hope he is around next year.
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Sorry, Jeff, will get it figured out yet.
Once I have the photo in my gallery, how to I upload from there?
I gave you instructions in an instant message. You can also read them here:
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Ya lookin' for these little guys?
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Saw a moose yesterday morning wading snow. That's a deer ain't it? ;) Snow's kinda crusty but not firm enough to hold moose, she was breaking through every other step. Didn't look fun, glad I was on the road for my walk. ;D
CCL,is this the picture?
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I saw 7 deer on the woods roads behind the house.I guess they are eating the leaves.
What leaves? :D :D
Deer have been moving around here. When to dogs get to barking I know its deer. But its always late at night. The other night they was going at it so i grabed the spotlight but its not a corless. So i got the battery charger out put the wires on the clamps and taped the all up. Shined the light out in the field and there were 6. Just a little ways out there. Ive seen a few since then out there. I just hope the battery dont go out in the truck and i have to un tape the clamps.
Leaves on the the woods roads or really next to it. The wind don't seem to blow the leaves away there.They seem to gather right at the edge of the road and stay there. Good fodder for the deer,even if they are oak leaves. Usually we see deer all winter here,all around us will be trails where the deer travel.Not this year.There use to be a real good travel path just a little ways from the house.I could see that some was using it,but nothing like in past years.
Went to work yesterday morning and a deer got hit by a car about a mile form my house.Was laying right by his mailbox.Was 5:15,I went around it and kept going,the house was dark.Was below freezing all night,so maybe he got some deer steak.That is too bad.Got through the winter and got hit while crossing the road.
Between the deep snow and a new 4-lane being completed through a wintering area in Charleston, they pretty much wiped them out. Seen dead deer hit by cars down there all last winter. Not a deer track this winter down there.
polly just told me to come look out the back house window 3 deer in back yard you could throw a rock and hit them ::) ::)
N. Michigan deer don't taste good at this time of the year. Gotta wait til the 4th of July before they are any good ;) ;D :)
Thecfarm, thanks for posting the picture, even though Jeff sent me how, I couldn't get it done. Yep thats the picture, I haven't looked at my scout camera in three days as our computer hard drive crashed. Got all our information back, but it was cheaper to buy new one than fix old one.
Here are a couple of bucks in our pasture this Fall. For several weeks when everything was dried out and our irrigated pasture had new alfalfa there were 32 deer on the six acre pasture. Not good.. :( ::)
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Chris,
That's a healthy looking buck. Did you ever see them in the daylight?
Mark
They came in just as it was getting dark and left before it got light in the morning. You could get within about 50 yards at night with a light for a picture. If a person was going to hunt them it may be possible to set up on the path coming into the pasture. We may get tags this year and give it a try with a bow. Otherwise there are too many close houses to use a rifle.
i could see ya stickin one and it running into the next yard. could have some mad neighbors!
nice deer!
Does anybody see any deer like this one?
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Do ya have any milk cows going stray around there? :D
Call 'em piebald, I think. :)
We call them holsteins and the neighbor gets real pithy when we shot at them. :D
Yes, piebald. We see them here occasionally.
Here is a game cam pick of a nice buck wandering around here lately.
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What's in the stump? smiley_headscratch
Use to have a salt block in it. They still come back to that white oak stump, and lick on the wood, and I think eat the dirt around the stump. Been preserved with salt for a good 30 years now.
Another hit on the game cam. This one looks like a keeper too. The one on the left is ok for the freezer too. :)
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Those are the ones you only see at around 3:27 AM :D :D
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The trick is keeping them in the field till the sun comes up. It also solves the problem of the deer running off and dying in the yard next door. ;)
I wondered why I hadn't been seein that big un last couple nites. You've got him caged up already. ;D
Seen a couple doe deer, one each day the last couple of days. They kinda surprise ya. All the sudden you hear them stomp off and they were right there about 20 yards from me. The one today was beside our thinning block. With the saw noises, maybe they thought it was dinner. I know they come to the noise in winter looking for tops. Not many deer here in central NB. They have lots of grains to eat this time of year though. I even found a couple small wild apple trees in the thinning. How on earth they could germinate and grow in that maple thicket is a mystery. It's just like a closet in under the canopy, no lie.
A Bachelor Group.
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Ron, sure would like to borrow that deer stand in the background, seems as every deer season its cold and wet here.
Sure ain't cold and wet now, 90 plus degrees. ;D Nice deer Ron.
I usually see does in groups of 3-5 and bucks either alone or in pairs during the summers provided the herd number is in the upswing. Never any great numbers of deer in a group until spring when you could count the survivors as they migrate to the bare fields in April. Or on harvest blocks where you could count 40-50 deer near wintering grounds or summer forage grounds. It was always nice to find a deer path along the lake shores when fishing for trout. Makes it a lot easier to walk in some of the toughest woods you'll ever walk in. They migrate in the watersheds here in fall and spring. Not a deer track in winter in a particular area, but see deer moving about raising young and chasing mates in the warmer seasons. Had a pair of bucks a few summers in a row that looked almost like twins. Many times the big bucks are nocturnal and move in the oat fields at night. Darn things will leap out of a little grove of woods or a field just before sun up and it's worst when it's foggy. Seems mostly does and younger deer get struck though.
I laughed one day last week. I wasn't really paying attention to this figure grazing in a little hay field over yonder when I was driving along. Thought to myself, looks like a nice horse. Wait a minute! There is no one with a horse around here and there is no one pasturing any critters there either. Darn thing was a cow moose feeling right at home and everyone going about their business as usual. :D :D :D :D
Deer have disappeared on our main hunting plot here. It rained the 120 acre corn field out twice and the farmer didn't replant the third time. I have had as high as four cameras out in the last month and have seen one very small buck. I guess we will go to our backup area, as I'm not going to feed them to get them back. Last year we had seen 5 bucks above 140 by now.
This one isn't bad. Caught by the hunting cabin, 8/09.
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You gotta get that one Ron. A Pink deer would be awesome.
Show this one to Pete, may be results of 'Pete's Grow Them Big".
Oh man, you guys are dancing with the devil with them kind of comments. :D
Checked my cameras today, had the back end of 2 deer, front of 2 does, and back half of rack of what looks like 8 point.
OOOp's batteries where to low to trigger camera.
Different Buck, same place
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Seen five moose beds on a logging trail, two moose trails and 3 moose hunting blinds in trees along with a sign posted near the area that I was working in stating that this was someone's moose hunting spot for 2009. :D
Deer season started here yesterday - archery only - but cool nonetheless.
Got a trip planned for a week from tomorrow! Yeehaw!
That being said, if anyone needs some efficient "deer control" assistance, there's 4 of us that would be more than happy to come help out!
We all appreciate the fine dining provided from nature's bounty, and we're all really good shots with long guns, two of us are real good with the bow too.
Season here opens Sept.15th, have two stands up plus a climbing stand. Deer have eaten most of my tomato crop, so all I can say is paybacks are H***.
Quote from: CLL on August 23, 2009, 11:11:42 PM
Deer have eaten most of my tomato crop, so all I can say is paybacks are H***.
I didn't know deer would eat tomatoes. I put a video survielance system on my mill towatch for another type of critter (thieves) and I got a video of a doe repeatedly coming to my tomato patch. I never got the first tomato. >:(
:D :D
They love beats, carrots and turnip tops to. ;D
My uncle had to put up page wire fencing around the garden. The deer come up from the river and also venture back and forth on the old farm after apples. One gets clipped on the highway once in awhile. He doesn't hunt. Leaves a radio on at night by the garden to keep coons away from the corn.
Just put a little sign up: This is a privately owned garden. Any deer trespassing will be SHOT..... ;D
Different Buck, same property, 8/09
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Buck for season 2011, nice looking buck, I seen his dad last year and wow. Problem was he was at 100 yards and I was bow hunting.
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I bushhogged a pasture yesterday and then walked back and sat a spell later. I only had a pocket camera with me and this 9 pointer was about 150 yards away. His neck came to his brisket and his belly hung, so it was a fairly old deer. Walking back to the cabin, this hawk was sitting in the freshly cut pasture road. Guess he had a dead rat or somthing, because he let me walk to within 10' of him.
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Nothing like sharing!! Actually fawn tried to butt turkey several times.
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I've seen and taken pictures of too many deer to count this summer. Seen a lot of nice ones, unfortunately they're livin on 8000 acres in the middle of the city...no hunting allowed :( These coastal plain deer sure have little bodies compared to the mountain deer I'm used to seeing...
Here's the first one...not an old deer but wow
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Here;s that same deer with two of his buddies...tough to see because of the size of the picture and the fact I had to zoom so far with my camera, but I promise all three are gorgeous wallhangers :)
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Might not be able to hunt them but you can bet I'll be there in the early part of the year lookin for sheds
found a couple more pictures, i tried to edit them so they would be big enough :)
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When a friend of mine and his family were living in the Blacksburgh area and working at VT, he harvested a few of your deer. ;D
Quote from: SwampDonkey on September 02, 2009, 06:10:03 PM
When a friend of mine and his family were living in the Blacksburgh area and working at VT, he harvested a few of your deer. ;D
Yeah those mountain deer are what I'm used to hanging from the wall. These ones down here in Newport News on the coast are smaller bodies but amazing noggins
Got back yesterday from our bowhunt in northern AZ.
Saw about 20 does, but no bucks at all.
I was sitting on a water tank (stock pond for those not in AZ) on the last night of the hunt, and got harassed by two coyotes. Nothing quite like seeing 2 coyotes just out of bow range (50 yards or so - not a shot I am confident with yet), licking themselves and basically giving me the "international peace sign".
But, then, right as the daylight was ending, and I couldn't see my sights anymore, I hear what resembles a freight train coming down the hillside behind me. My heart was pounding, by palms started sweating, and my pulse was racing like Dale Earnhardt at Daytona! From the treeline comes a MONSTER BULL ELK - a 6x7 if my count was accurate! What a glorious animal! World class by any standards!
But, as it isn't elk season, and me not having a tag for bull elk, no shot.
But, at less than 30 yards, a reasonably easy shot on a target that size.
Wow! What a rush!
What a way to end a day! 8)
I took my test yesterday for the NBEF and have to do the Field Day test the 12th of Sept. This is so I can hunt in the Urban Hunt in Bull Shoals. Deer are thick as fleas on a dogs back in town. No limit on how many you can take so long as the first one is a doe. The town is surronded on 3 sides by the lake and the river comes out and cuts back so that there is only about a mile between it and Jimmy's creek. The Corp land around the lake gives the deer a place to lay during the day and they yards feed the deer quite well. Some people feed them and love them and others are so mad becasue they can not have a nice yard because of the deer. Game and Fish is worried they might start getting sick and it leak out and into the rest of the deer population. You can not hardly drive through town early in the day or in the afternoon with out hitting a deer crossing the road. Customer of mine says he can not have any thing in his yard or they will eat it. He said I could just stand in his shop and shoot a dozen about every morning. Said last week he was mowing and had to get a fawn up so he would not run over it with the mower. I need to do my part. ;D
Tell us about the test. Assume it is Nat'l Bowhunters Education Foundation. We don't have such a test in WI, far as I know.
What does it teach? or test? Is it mainly to satisfy the non-hunters/ deer protectors, showing fear that arrows will be flying all around?
Curious here. Sounds like you should get some venison.
Our bow deer season starts week from tomorrow.
I've a cardboard cutout of a deer for targeting the bow, and last night a spike was extremely curious what it was. :) :) Too late to get a decent pic.
My bow test is the heart on my rhinehart target, we even practice from our stands , and one of us move the decoy around so we can get used to shooting in different situations. My Rage broadheads are dead deer down approved digin_2
Yes it is the National Bowhunters Education Foundation and the test is to help steady the nerves of the non hunting public. Also it insures some knowlede of safty and hunting. There is an orintation class and a shooting test that has to be passed. WI does not have a state test but I guess you could take another state test and see if there are any Field days held in that state. There are several around you that have state test.
It is a good thing. For the hunt you also have to be a member of the Arkansas Bowhunters Association. It will provide some liabilty insurance. There are other hoops to jump through but it is a good cause. The deer can be donated to feed the hungry and it will help keep the herd healthy. I get to keep all antlers. 8)
http://www.nbef.org/index.html
http://www.arkansasbowhunters.org
Season starts here tuesday. May not get anything tuesday but will be in the climbing stand looking.
I was out this morning, and a beautiful morning it was. No deer the first two hours, but the squirrels were working over the acorns and a pileated woodpecker was knockin the bejeepers out of a couple dead popple about 20 yards away.
Lots of walnut leaves falling, and the smell of fall is in the air.
Hope you see something next weekend.
And, I picked up a Nikon Archers Choice rangefinder. I like the carryingcase it came in, and find it handy to use. No need to pace off the archery target when I set it up. :) :) It was lock on at 20, 30, and 40 yards of my taped distances yesterday. Thanks for your suggestion.
Well I passed the test! 8) Just had to put 3 of 3 arrows in the lung area of a 3D target @ 20 yds and set through the classes and then we went out and did stand safty and trail a fake blood trail. It was no problem. I go in Feb 2010 for a course to become a NBEF instructor. It will allow me to teach bowhunting as most places want you certified. I teach Hunters Ed for the State of Arkansas and have for almost 20 years.
What I have been seeing is adults in their 30's and 40's who have kids in the 10 years and up comming to class with the kids. For the most parts it seems the adults are taking up hunting along with the kids. They really lack basic woodmen skills and have no experiance. They may have shot a rabbit 25 years ago at GrandPa's farm with an old .410 and wanting to pick up the hunting tradiation. I take several out on hunting trips and guess I have taken for granted the fact that I have been on streams and in the woods since I could walk. Learning from my Pa and GrandPa the ways of the critters and creation. So like in the Arkansas Catfish Ass. we have one Tournament that you have to have a child under the age of 16 in the boat or you can not fish the tourny. So look around and take someone new hunting this year even if it is to "pop a tree rat".
V-E-G-E-T-A-R-I-A-N
Old Indian word meaning....."Poor Hunter"
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Arkansas Catfish Ass.
Can't say I've ever seen one of those, but I ain't been to Arkansas for more than a few hours :D
Spend a bit longer time and you will most likly see some. ;D We are having our Classic this week end if the River is not to high. It has rained all week.
Seen 7 deer when going up my drive way tonight that's not unusual however 4 of them were bucks, two 4 point one was a 6 or 8 the other looked much larger than the 6 or 8, my neighbour has been seeing a 10 pointer I think this might be him.
Seen 4 does yesterday in the outback. Hardly see a deer out there with most the wintering areas cut and very deep snow. Sure they have managed deer wintering areas, but way smaller acreages and too far apart than used to exist. Even the moose have a tough go if there is 6 feet of snow, they will hold up in a fir thicket and eat on it and waste away from malnurishment. Seen/smelt some dead young moose this year. Used to see 20-40 in a group 25 years ago, especially along lake shores where the deer had nice paths for us fly fisherman types after brook trout. ;D
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My friend Johnny 2 tankswho lives on my "hill" in tenn just sent me this pix he took last week. Locals have been talking about a nice buck in the area, I guess they wern't BS'sn!
Almost makes me want to take up hunting again.
Nice.......Yup, Nice...... :)
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My friend Johnny 2 tankswho lives on my "hill" in tenn just sent me this pix he took last week. Locals have been talking about a nice buck in the area, I guess they wern't BS'sn!
Almost makes me want to take up hunting again.
Bill-can I pop that buck if I see him when I'm there?
Seen bunches of deer the last two weeks, but most of them have all the horns knocked off :D. Had 11 does in one bunch and not one with horns, but the bucks are starting to follow them some. Where we live we have a rule that a buck must have at least 4 points on one side to be a shooter. The does are safe through the first bow season and gun season, thats until the 27th of november, then its jerky season,does aren't safe then.
I am glad we dont have your point restriction down here like you do there CLL. I am going up to boonville in the next couple of weeks and i am taking my bow. My inlaws have 20 acres there. But their neighbors have a few hundred joining them. They row crop it every year and last year i seen a buck that makes the one that Raider Bill put on here look like a baby. I Plan on hunting all weekend long. Last year i seen around 20 out in the field at one time. I have my fingers crossed.
Deer are coming out now late morning and early evening. No big deal to let the dog out and see 3-4 in the lower field or out behind the house. I see them coming home in the fields by my house. I have seen no horns yet.The bucks are around just don't see them.Saw one with horns a few years ago.First one I've seen with horns for years.
This mornings woods walk along the gravel road revealed 3 cow moose being pursued by a bull. The cows were walking up from the beaver pond through the aspen trees toward me until I hollered at them to get going. Darn things are too friendly.
Went over to my tree farm this morning. There were 3 good bucks and 3 long beard turkeys 250 yards behind the cabin. I planted about 1/4 acre of wheat/oats, and they have found it for sure. If they mow it down too heavily, I'll have to increase the size of the plot. Good problem..... :)
Hunted three days from same stand, lots of does just a couple of small bucks, switched stands tonight, guess what, yep looked across field and there stands a nice 8 point 10 yards from my stand. Stupid hunter!!!!
All I seen was a spike horn and a couple does all week. The spike horn was a good sized deer though.
Not a great picture but he's a 10 pointer that showed up on the face of the dam early this morning.
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Not a great picture but he's a 10 pointer that showed up on the face of the dam early this morning.
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375 yards...light wind left to right...two clicks up, one click right....venison in the freezer!
375 yards ? The buck is on the dam, not by those farm buildings in the background. ;D ;D ;D
:D :D
He was about 100 yards from the house when he stopped. The sun was just coming up and the clouds had parted just enough for that picture. Patty was playing the piano and he was perked up listening to her. I stepped out to the deck got the picture and he was gone.
Earlier this fall I saw two huge bucks feeding along the waterway south of the house. Even though they were 300 yards off I could see the huge racks. One was an easy 12 pointer and the other much bigger. What do you suppose the odds are I'll see them during deer season. :D
It is deer season. :D
I was out in the stand at JDTuttle's place today, and all I can say is WOW!
Jim's got an amazing place, way back in the hills, tons of creativity, and a wonderful family whom I got the pleasure to meet this evening after the hunt.
Yes, Jim, raincheck on that scrumptious smelling pot roast, and I do hope I get the opportunity to smoke up a deer ham soon!
Didn't see a thing until I was on the way home, and there were 8 deer on the side of the road, munching to their hearts content, just after dark.
DAGNABBIT!
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The squirrels are quite tasty.
Looks like all the zoo animals are fairing well. :D ;)
It's that time of the year again. Bow season starts October 1st.
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I've got a few from here at work...some of the pictures aren;t the best quality since I had to zoom so far in, but you get the idea :)
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VT,
For all the years that I was in the shipyard there in Newport News, I NEVER saw any deer that big. Nor, with such nice racks. Was this out that the park on the west side of the airport?
Bruce
Quote from: submarinesailor on September 23, 2010, 04:52:53 PM
VT,
For all the years that I was in the shipyard there in Newport News, I NEVER saw any deer that big. Nor, with such nice racks. Was this out that the park on the west side of the airport?
Bruce
Bruce,
Yeah, they are in Newport News Park, right by the Lee Hall Reservoir. These are just a few out of a herd of a dozen or more that are all wall hangers. That's all Waterworks property, which unfortunately means that since it's city-owned these deer will die of old age or a Buick. Silver lining is that I walk those 8,000+ acres on a regular basis and have stumbled across some nice sheds and skulls.
James
Those are fine looking deer, their antlers are almost as long as elk's. Must be eating real good. ;D
Playful deer group.
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Those deer look like they are having fun :) I'm pretty jealous of the fact that it was 55 degrees at 8:30am. I was out getting a logger started on a pine stand and at 8:30am I'm pretty sure it was somewhere north of 80 haha
One of the group.
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Here are a couple caught on my trail camera a few weeks back.
An 8 pt with good brow tines.
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A 10 pt
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Composit of the two.
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Good to see they got their headlights on. :D :D
Nice. I've noticed the more southern deer have a different form to their antlers and the deer themselves look different. When I see a photo I can tell by it's appearance that it's not our local white tails. Ron's and beenthere's deer look like ours. With our deer they migrated in here as this was caribou and moose country in my great grandfather's time. Still lots of moose.
Great looking Wisconsin bucks!
Awesome looking deer...that one in the front looks like a bruiser for sure
around here you have to be careful at night. if a game warden catches you letting your headlights shine out across a field even if there is no deer or other animals to be seen he might give you a ticket for disturbing wildlife.
Your not allowed to shine lights on fields here either. Likely will land you a poaching fine. I do believe they have something penned in the Wildlife Act, something about harassing wildlife. But, those deer are being photographed in those night pictures with game cams.
The old "Tobique" guides discovered natural salt licks in the forest of central New Brunswick. This place is known as the Rocky Brook salt lick where some naturalists of the early 20th century took photos and film of wildlife.
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Photo taken by Don Dickey, 1920. Moose and deer share the lick. Some of Don's photos show more moose than deer at times at the lick. Don had a blind set up on the bank of the brook. The blind was moved back away from the lick as the animals eroded the banks by pawing. In 1922 the blind was removed. US congressman George Shiras III was the first to photograph wildlife here in 1905. ["Beyond the Trodden Path", Gerry Parker]
There is a George Shiras photography collection at the Northern Michigan University in the DeVos Art Museum. Photos of Northern Michigan and Canadian wildlife, one of the first flash photographers. He was buried in Marquette, MI at Park Cemetery on March 24, 1942. Some of his works were in his 1935 publication of "Hunting Wild Life with Camera and Flashlight : a Record of Sixty Five years' Visits to the Woods and Waters of North America", a two volume set of over 960 of his wildlife photographs including some of the earliest 'flash' photography. [Wikipedia and Sean Stimac]
Here, it's legal to shine fields, as long as you are not in possession of a gun or bow, and your lights don't shine within 500 ft of someones house.
My home town of Red Lick, Ms. was named for a natural salt lick. I guess that it was red. Anyway, that is what the "old folks" told me, so now I'm the "old folks" so I just pass it along.
A Grandson and I only watched this evening. A seven point came out at about 75 yards, but we never considered shooting. We've got a lot more season left.
I often get young fellow deer coming down to the house they seem to like to hang out with the horses One trick I play is to rattle the horse feed bucket and call out to the horses and they come running the deer being herd animials just go with the flow next thing they know is they are a couple of feet away from me They look a little startled but beacause the horses arn't bothered they just back off a little but still hang around
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I have always told my daughters that if they see a deer on the road or beside the road don't try to swerve around, just hit the brakes hard.
I had a chance to follow my own advice tonight. I was traveling to town at about 50 mph when I saw three deer crossing in front of me. I hit the brakes and locked up all four wheels. The first two made it past me but the third was closer to me and I guess my bumper knocked it down and I felt the rear wheel run over its leg. In the rear-view mirror I saw it get up and limp off to the side of the road. No damage to my car, but I'm pretty sure the deer has a broken leg.
I feel bad because I hate to know an animal is suffering and I suspect that deer will die a painful death. :(
Doug, you'd be surprised how many 3-legged deer are running around, and I do mean running. :D If this deer had no other internal injuries, it will probably survive.
Mark
We had a three legged doe named "Tripod" on our place. She always raised a fawn. Never two, just one. Of course when she walked, she limped, but when she ran you could not tell that she only had one front leg.
I took this picture in April 2007 (missing part of rear leg) then seen the same deer in the summer 2010 trying to walk on a rocky lake shore a mile or two from where the pic was taken it did much better in the field than the lake shore.
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I never thought a three legged deer would last long in the north. Cold and coyotes I would think weed them out quick.
Deer are pretty tough animals.
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I shot this one a few years back and had no idea it was crippled until I field dressed it.
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I haven't hunted for several years but may start again next year as these two should be keepers by than. They should loose there headgear in the next two weeks and maybe I can find the sheds. Picture is a bit blurry cause I took it through the screen door.
This time of year the pickin's are a lot slimmer for the deer and they show up pretty regular around Kathy's bird feeders. Searching for a few seeds that the birds knock on the ground and I think Kathy may spill a little extra also.
The does are around just about all the time. One little doe has jumped over the hood of the Honda as we drove up our drive...twice this month.
Oh, I think that they can smell the groceries. They will also remember where those extra seeds were too. ;)
A nice pair, back in their bachelor group.
One summer there was a couple bucks hanging out on the farm together. One was redder than the other. One must've been older I guess. They were both big ten pointers though. I almost hit one on the road coming home from work. It ran down off a ridge and leaped onto the road. I never go fast on our road like some do. Good thing or it would have been game over the hood.
Most times, a deer is more likely to survive when missing the front leg than the back leg!
If they have the back legs, they can still jump fences, creeks, etc!
3 Legged Deer: I shot one with a bow in 1986 in Augusta County, VA, an old doe, missing the lower part of her front left leg. The farmer said she had gotten it twisted off in a barbed wire fence when she was a yearling. That was in 1979. He said most every year she'd have twin fawns and they all made it just fine.
Here's a shot of the buck that's been hangin' around all year.
Good to see he made it through the season....I guess I should check the camera more often
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That the deer feeding station? ;D Looks like a keeper. ;)
Nice! One to look forward to during the next season.
Yea right, :D Can you say JILL'S PET? ;)
Right, da burlkraft can't shoot 'em. :'( :'( :'(
Here is a picture of a few bucks on our property in the U.P. :)
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Welcome Freedom6178, to the Forestry Forum.
Tell us a little more about yourself. :)
Pen-raised deer at work :D Actually, these are the resident herd that are inside the fence of one of the water treatment plants.
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Pretty much like clock-work when they show up too...these pictures are from two different days and are about a half hour apart
Quote from: Freedom6178 on April 05, 2011, 04:22:16 AM
Here is a picture of a few bucks on our property in the U.P. :) ...........
Looks like spring and new antler growth are way ahead of us, here in southern WI. :) :)
Must have been a lean year for snow up der, eh?
;D
Welcome to the forum.
VT_Forestry
Is the high fence to keep them in, or was it to keep them out? Appears there is more food for them outside the fence. ??
Quote from: beenthere on April 05, 2011, 10:35:36 AM
VT_Forestry
Is the high fence to keep them in, or was it to keep them out? Appears there is more food for them outside the fence. ??
The fence is a 10ft security fence erected after 9/11 since our water treatment plants are considered a high-risk target. It encloses an area of approximately 120 acres that varies from parking lots to forested areas. The biggest forested area, about 30 acres, is mostly hardwood (oak/beech/hickory) The deer are pretty content inside the fence...they are especially content with eating all the landscaping shrubs and rubbing anters on the landscaping trees. I am currently trying to figure out just how many are inside the fence and what we can do about them...I've counted 75 at one time in the more open, turf areas of the complex ::)
Quote from: Magicman on April 05, 2011, 07:47:34 AM
Welcome Freedom6178, to the Forestry Forum.
Tell us a little more about yourself. :)
Thanks for the welcome. Live and work in SE WI, bought 18+ acres in the UP a few yrs ago. Stumbled on this site and found it very informative and a lot of people with the same mindset as us. Like a lot of the creative ideas you all have.
Quote from: beenthere on April 05, 2011, 10:35:36 AM
Quote from: Freedom6178 on April 05, 2011, 04:22:16 AM
Here is a picture of a few bucks on our property in the U.P. :) ...........
Looks like spring and new antler growth are way ahead of us, here in southern WI. :) :)
Must have been a lean year for snow up der, eh?
Oh Ya der, eh :D ... That picture was from Aug 2010 was kind of surprised that morning to see so many bucks in the yard at one time :-*
Freedom6178
Oh and as you can see I'm still learning how to post on the fourm :-\
I think that we are all still learning something. ;)
Here is a link to a photo/story about the now famous GIANT mule deer that calls CO Springs his home. His sheds were very sought after.
This is about the sheds, but also about the interest that he caused during this past year.
http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/gallery/hunting/2011/04/huge-mule-deer-record-goliath-sheds-found?cmpid=enews041311
Put the trail cam out the other night, and caught these two hangin around. Lookin good for this year, if'n they will start moving around during the daytime hours.
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Those are nice deer. All I see is does and fawns on the roads, just about killed two fawns in the past week. The bucks all seem to hide in the bush. It's buck only hunting here, can't blame them for hiding. Can't see them little #$#@ in the tree shadows. ;D
Very nice indeed. I am beginning to see antlers in velvet.
Wow! Great racks.
Mama and a little one
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These two look like they could be brothers...
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Nice!
I haven't seen a buck deer around here in months. Just does and fawns. Those look like some nice well fed deer. ;D
Kathy fills the bird bath twice a day. Starting last week the bird bath would be completely dry every morning and sometimes it would go dry during the day.
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Now we know. It's not like they don't have water...they have a 40,000 acre lake about a 100 yards away. They just don't have the little holes and seeps every few feet since the drought started.
If your feeding the birds, they might be at that to. :D Take advantage of every opportunity when your a browser (deer) or hunter/gatherer (bear). ;D
Why do the moose come up to the yard to feed on my trees with millions in the forest? :D
Every once in awhile I get a stupid grouse around the back yard. The old orchard used to have 3-6 grouse from fall through winter. It's only on an acre in the middle of farm fields. ;D Not much of that in summer with all the hawks.
The deer have really been moving around here the last couple of weeks. I am gooing to have to get the trail cmera out. The other night right before dark i had one nice buck chaseing 3 does around one half of the field and 2 mommas with 3 liilte ones with them. My field is around 25 acres or so And i have 4 older elecric pole around 14 foot long i am going to try and put up a club house slash deer stand. Be a nice plase to go sit with out the phone ringing and drink a cold beer once in awhile and relax. Just waiting for the ground to soften up to dig the holes.
Put the trail camera out at work just over top of a scrape that is developing...enjoy!
Pretty nice 6-pointer and a piebald
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Looks to be the same 6-pointer coming through
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Big 8 coming through
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IR of the Big 8
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Closer look at that piebald
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Great deer! I think I saw that 8 one night last year when I was headed East on 64 near the reservoir. He was standing on the shoulder, looking over the guardrail towards the roadway. I was waiting for him to jump over it right in front of my truck.
Quote from: clww on September 19, 2011, 08:41:51 PM
Great deer! I think I saw that 8 one night last year when I was headed East on 64 near the reservoir. He was standing on the shoulder, looking over the guardrail towards the roadway. I was waiting for him to jump over it right in front of my truck.
That wouldn't surprise me one bit. Newport News Park is slam packed full of trophy deer....deer that will never make it (legally) onto someone's wall ::)
I am finally seeing bucks at my place. One really nice eye popper. :o
I'll try to get my trail camera out soon.
Quote from: beenthere on July 21, 2011, 11:10:24 PM
Put the trail cam out the other night, and caught these two hangin around. Lookin good for this year, if'n they will start moving around during the daytime hours.
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I think these two are still hangin around, as last night they were in a discussion as to who would stay.
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The only deer I get to watch with any frequency is moose. This morning was one across the field 150 yards feeding on some birch like nothing was happening of concern. I went off in my own direction with saw and gas for some more bush whack'n. ;D
nice big deer in here they got my two on the wall beat thats for sure. i have two 140 class on the wall ones a 10 point the other is a 13. two years in a row hopeing to keep the streak going this year.
Looking Good!
Hmmmmm
http://www.northamericanwhitetail.com/2011/11/01/video-alberta-hunter-grabs-bucks-rack/
That's a cool video Bill, but in reality, the guy wasn't the brightest color in the box for grabbing the deer by the antler in the first place.
That video could have gotten ugly real quick. :o
Quote from: Chuck White on November 11, 2011, 10:04:41 AM
That's a cool video Bill, but in reality, the guy wasn't the brightest color in the box for grabbing the deer by the antler in the first place.
That video could have gotten ugly real quick. :o
Chuck I agree and wondered if that wasn't a pet deer as I can't see a wild one even blind and lame allowing that.
We saw this guy many times in the velvet and a couple of afternoons within 40 yards of our back door. He is a 9 point with kickers on both sides.
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I got another trail cam picture of him.
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That feeder is set to run about 2 seconds each day at 4:00PM. It is legally placed out of sight from the food plot.
Here is a "side" view of him.
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Very nice, and it looks like he found himself a girlfreind, hope he passes on those genetics before you name him supper :D.
Magic-
What would you estimate the weight of that buck to be? He's a broad shouldered guy!
160-175 lbs. He could be on the upper end right now before the rut. Afterwards, he will be on the lower end. Our deer rarely top 200 lbs.
I suspect that he is 3 1/2 years old. When we were seeing him during the late Summer, he was always alone which indicates some maturity.
Actually the above buck is not the one that I am looking for this year, but I would take him. I just hope that the other presents a shot first.
"He" is still around.
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Our "Primitive Weapon" season is now open.
Is your "primitive" season bow, muzzleloader, or both? He is a very nice deer, think I'd be buying some primitive weapons :D
Spears, would be primitive. :D
Bow/arrows, muzzleloaders, licensed XBows, 45-70 & 35 in certain approved firearms.
Youth have no restrictions.
Was thinking stones, just drop one of good weight from up a tree. ;)
Works with whistle pigs. ;D
Good news! It looks like the sticker horn buck will make it through the season. :)
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Grandson Ben saw him but just could not get a shot.
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Strawfield food plot.
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Another Strawfield picture.
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Sticker buck. :)
Cool pictures its been years sence we seen deer in a feild like that. I miss those days nothing more enjoyable then seeing wildlife like that.
You can still see it here. But all them deer, are all there are for miles in our situation. It used to be, you went out in the deep woods and those 40-60 deer or more were on the edge of every fresh cut. The lakes had beat down paths, which made it a pleasure to walk and fish. Two and a half decades ago that all changed with mechanization and accelerated harvesting that removed most of the stands with the structure that allowed the deer to survive the winter in norther regions. We used to have and estimated half a million deer in this little province, maybe 100,000 now. And that's a liberal figure I would say. Where I live however, the moose always out numbered the deer even as far back as father can remember. The Tobique River watershed, Charleston and Howard Brook-Becaquimac region near here where the deer areas. Plus many others across the province. They just seemed to congregate in certain areas of the forest and they migrated to. They say now, there is half a million moose.
That's a good looking buck, Magicman.
I like Ben already, and I've never met him. Around here almost anybody would take a "poke n hope" shot at a deer like that. Keep teaching those grandkids well, they're growing up right. ;)
Took this shot out the back door last night. He acted lost.
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Quote from: beenthere on January 26, 2012, 01:26:34 AM
Took this shot out the back door last night. He acted lost.
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He is lost. He's supposed to be on my wall.
Nice animals beenthere. You should have left the shed door open with a pale of oats. ;)
I looked out at dusk last night and there were 20 some in the alfalfa field on our top terraces. Only a couple of small bucks though, the big ones are pretty solitary.
We saw a couple of very nice bucks today, and one looked larger than the "sticker horn" buck. They are still worrying the does.
Peek-a-boo I see you
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Now get back to your job guarding my wood pile and quit eating the Dang bird seed under the tree.
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Buck guarding the firewood pile. That's neat! :)
Laughed the other day, doe was in the thicket clearing her nostrils "blowing" at me. :D
Sorry I didn't have a video camera let alone a regular camera but I got to watch something really funny last night. I'd gone to a field to shut off an irrigation pivot just before dark and when I pulled over a hill to see if it was out of the corn, there was a doe and fawn in the bottom below me so I shut the engine off quick (pivot wasn't there yet anyway) and sat there and watched. The doe was nibbling on the grass and the little fawn was playing just like a little kid in a sprinkler, it would watch the end gun (which shoots about 60' or so) and run into it, then buck up, jump around and run out to mamma, then repeat. It was obvious the fawn was having a blast, momma never even looked up, I watched for ten minutes or so before I had to drive in to shut the well down and ruin their fun. Funny what kind of things can turn a bad day into a good one.
Sandhills, nice to have seen that I'm sure. Mother Nature has a way to enlighten us each day IF we let her....!
I had a similar experience not with deer but horses. I backed up a pivot irrigation system against a fence by a horse pasture and turned it on. The end gun shot out a large stream of water lapping back and forth across the dried grass and weeds. The old horses came up and just turned their rears to the water and stood side by side loving the cool fresh water beating down on their hides.
Had 4 deer out in front of my place a few days ago. 3 bucks and one doe. One huge 10 pointer, absolutely perfectly symmetrical, wider than his ears and just as high as he was wide. Beautiful deer. Then right behind him was another deer that was dark brown even though the others were still bright red. The brown deer was a non-typical, points going everywhere, he has a double main beam on the left side, and nice and wide. Not as high as the 10 pointer. Going to put the game camera up and try to get some pictures to show you guys. The non-typical is the buck of a lifetime and the 10 pointer is one of the finest typicals I've ever seen in the wild. Going to be a good deer season this year. They had a little 5 or 6 point with them too. :)
first pic on the new trail camera, not much but the first. Like catching the first fish on a new pole, more to come,
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i got to watch a doe run straight into the front of my truck. She did 2800 dollars worth. But i hit it and knocked it into the other lane and a mini cooper traveling torwards me. hit it then about half a second after i did It totaled out her car. Nobody but the deer was hurt.
This is getting closer to what I am trying to get in view, wiley he is,
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Couple of young bucks having a shoving match in my yard on a frosty morning. Taken Oct 25 2012
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Nice photo!
Yup, calendar quality. ;)
Thanks, I'm not sure it counts as a real photo, but I like the image just the same.
You see I did take a bunch of photos but was having a tough time with the low light and lots of subject movement, I had taken some video as well so as I watched the video I noticed that there may be a better image in the video and managed to grab this from it. I will try to put the video together an upload to youtube in a few days if it works out.
I hung the camera on a few well-traveled trails out on the property...got a few interesting ones.
I was hoping for some better pictures of this one, but he's a nice wide one - in the background you'll see a 3 year old loblolly stand that he's been wearing out
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Hard to see, but this one looks to be a nice symmetrical 8-pointer, possibly a 9 with a crab claw - I'm guessing he's the one that's tearing up the woods around the camera
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Huge 3-pointer - thinking he needs to be in the freezer
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Curious little guy :D
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I'm just happy as all get out to get a picture of some does on my property. If I have does, hopefully some bucks will come a courtin.
Had one early evening photo with 5 at one time. That is a first since I bought the property. Hopefully the deer population here is rebounding.
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I picked up the card from my trail cam yesterday. Got this good pose of a nice buck. Also his butt moving away. I got him again Thursday night.
I also got pictures of a couple of does a couple of times. Also coyotes and foxes.
Camera is set about 100 yards from the house.
Jeff-Is there a big impact on your deer population due to the harsh winters you have up there?
That is initially what happened to our deer population in the mid 90's was a winter that killed almost everything, then, having a healthy population of several predators here that eats fawns, the herd has had a hard time, locally, coming back. This year really shows some promise though as we are seeing more deer, and actually seeing some in the daylight. Here are a couple photos from this week from my place. The buck has scruffy antlers, but at least it is a buck. The doe looks good.
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I can't get over how health your Deer are.
I'm hoping to 'run into' this guy (or an offspring ;D) this week. The first pic is from last week the second from one year ago. He doesn't appear to have changed much though likely is heavier. I don't think he is a 200lb'er (dressed) but maybe.
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I took this guy in the bucket 3yrs ago (188lb dressed) and put the camera on the gut pile and got the eagles. ALL daytime pics, not a single nighttime visitor, at least not that the cam picked up. And the pile was gone 3 days later.
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Think I'm going to spend a little more $ on my next trail camera, the stuff you can see is just too cool!
JM
PS I tucked my coat behind the deers head to make sure not to scratch my bucket. ;) ;D
Great pictures! Can't be too careful with that bucket finish. ;)
Couple more from the camera
This one is coming through less than a minute after a doe cruised by....I guess he's got his priorities straight :)
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No daylight photos, deer are moving right at dawn or at night
Nice!
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Got this picture on November 15 about 11:00 am.
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Must be his little brother. Got his picture today (Nov 17) at 11:00 am.
The card had 30 pictures in all - mostly does. All probably the same 6 or so deer.
I was not able to hunt this afternoon. The wind was out of the NE, which is a killer for any of our deer stands. Since our prevailing wind is from the SW, all of our stands are NE of the normal deer activity. I just worked on the Cabin Addition and came home early for a hot bowl of chili. digin1
Good pics Bib. Looks like he's carrying candy and flowers. :)
Yep, he is looking for love.
Had what I thought were perfect conditions, light N winds since Wed and a new moon. Jumped a deer going to the stand yesterday morning (still pitch black out) and had a coyote cut in front of me but couldn't get the gun up quick enough (I'm starting to dislike yotes as much as MM does sweetgum or thecfarm g...s! :o) I debate if I like the fact that Maine does not allow Sunday hunting but it is nice to have a day where I don't have to worry about what I smell like. ;D ;) :D
JM
Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on November 17, 2012, 09:12:54 PM
Good pics Bib. Looks like he's carrying candy and flowers. :)
They had romantic in mind. The pictures preceding these were does keeping ahead of them.
Is the no Sunday hunting a religious thing, or is it to relieve some weekend hunting pressure?
Quote from: terry f on November 18, 2012, 12:38:40 PM
Is the no Sunday hunting a religious thing, or is it to relieve some weekend hunting pressure?
You can hunt private land in S.C. on Sunday, but you can't hunt on Wildlife Management Land (Public Hunting ). The no Sunday hunt on public lands gives ALL a break.
Yeah Terry, it has a religious background (can't sell cars on Sundays either ???). Sportsman's groups have tried to change it over the years but there's a lot of resistance across the state, even from quite a few hunters. We have a month long gun season (give or take a day or two) so it's not 'that' big a deal but with hunter numbers going down (especially out of state hunters) it's one more thing that makes it less attractive for someone looking to start hunting or come up here to hunt (IMHO ;D). Deer numbers aren't great either so that doesn't help either. :(
JM
Neighbor got a buck just before dark. My flash didn't go off so I don't have a good picture of it. He called it an 8 pointer. I'd say 6. The guard points were pretty short. It was in full rut with swollen neck and stunk something awful.
Anyway he's happy.
Camera shy. ;D
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Taken Friday night and Saturday was the last day of rifle season. I've got a week and a half left to find him with my muzzleloader. :-\
JM
A short explanation of these photos - this will make it to deer watching, I promise. I was expecting one thing, and then unexpectedly got some great pictures of deer. I'd found a dead deer at work, a tiny little doe that had probably snapped it's neck on a fence. It's a shame, but it happens sometimes. Anyway, I decided to set it (as well as the trail camera)out and see what showed up to munch on it. I'd heard coyotes in the area so that was about what I expected...
Setting the deer out. This area is an open field with some cell phone towers in it.
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Doesn't take long for the buzzards to show up...
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Doesn't take much longer for what I was expecting to show up...Success!
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Certainly wasn't expecting a nice buck to stroll through an hour after the coyote dragged the carcass off
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DEFINITELY wasn't expecting that :-*
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Nice buck again, it looks like the same one from before
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Next 3 pics are a super nice buck, looks like he has some years on him
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One of the joys of trail cameras is showing us what goes on the we never expect or suspect.
Now the presence of deer on your property is pretty common like watching cattle in some states to the south. But up here, deer need wintering ground for water, food, warmth and to yard (trails) in because we have cold and snow and usually lots of both.
So anyway, I have softwood land with hardwoods mixed in and a little aspen to. I was just taking a nice stroll through the woods to look for some fir in an area I knew about that should be big enough to prune up. While making a circular sweep to take in this area I found lots of new signs of deer milling around, lying in moss in one spot and some droppings in different places. To the south a couple lots down they will be cutting this winter. I was figuring a handful of deer may hold up in my softwoods this winter and make their way back and forth to the area being cut to nibble tops. Time will tell. I would say I saw signs of 3 deer in a 25 acre weep. The thing is though, I have coyotes to and lots of rabbits. The bear was around this summer with a carcass of a cow or moose, all I seen was a couple leg bones near a tree I have marked for measurements every so often. He spied the little pill bottle and had a good chew, but did not tear it down. It's definitely not water proof now. Wish I had a trail cam. ;D
Thankfully, our weather pattern has finally changed.
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So PatD and I spent a couple of hours in the "Straw House" yesterday.
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And the bucks have started chasing does. ;D
I didn't know moose traveled that far south :D
Wow that guy looks like a shooter! :rifle:
Video of deer in my yard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYnK8NXCC5c
cool stuff hilltop! always a blast to watch that action, thanks
Playfull one!
I intend to go with Marty and the Grandguys tonight and spend some time "watching" with them tomorrow. 'Spose to rain, so we may end up in a shooting house.
Sunday brunch. There were five boys but they left the girls at home with the fawns, so maybe it was just boys morning out.
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Think this one had the biggest hat.
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Yup, same as around here. The bucks are now together, the does with fawns, and last year fawns are out bumming on their own. Saw a group of bucks with horn development similar to the pics Larry posted, about a week ago.
Time to get the cameras up.
7 am this morning I saw the red back of a deer in the far corner of a field, when returning home from the woodlot. Was nice and cool this morning, not a single biting bug out. ;D Now rain. ::) Light here at 5 am ya know, birds singing by 4:30 am. ;) Saw a red fox on down the road from the deer. His tail was as big as the front half of'm. ;D
Have not been seeing many deer.But i know they are around.The dog will bark at one lone deer in the field across the road.
I just hates it when the DanG squirrel gets in the bird feeder. I should shoot it. ;D
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Most of the fawns are up and running now so I noticed the does are back to associating with the bucks. Towards the middle of July it will be time for the fawns to start moving with the rest of the clan and the whole family will be together.
That is a very nice red oak :).
Well it woulda been without the screws holding that DanG feeder. Things like that attracts squirrels, deer, and sawblades.
Quote from: Larry on June 26, 2013, 09:36:07 PM
I just hates it when the DanG squirrel gets in the bird feeder. I should shoot it. ;D
30-06 is the weapon of choice for squirrel, correct? ??? ;) ;D
Nice looking herd, they are a joy to watch, so long as they stay out of the garden, ours has been showing up through the night, working on the beans a little bit, david
One of the neatest pics I've ever seen.
Yes, I told you it was a nice red oak :).
you need to get him one of those rotating ear corn squirrel feeders, that'll learn him :).
The way that gray squirrel is hugging that tree, I think he's trying to defend his food source from them deer. :D :D Selfish little bugger. ;)
The other day I saw birds, a coon, squirrels, and deer all eating within a few feet of each other. None of them like our house cat ???.
That nice red oak probably only has about 2 years left. The borer is bad here and taking a lot of the mature red oaks. I've lost two that size this spring and another two last year. Once they kill one tree I guess they move to the next one in line. Or at least that's how it seems.
Came home from town, and about 3 miles from home a fawn comes out onto the road up ahead a couple 100 yards. Was raining to. He trots up the middle of the road like it's a deer path for quite a piece. I laid on the horn and he left the road and back to the woods. ;D
The other day I was trying to finish up knocking down a field of rye and a doe kept running back in and out of the last bit I had left, I know she had a fawn in there and I hate that feeling, can't see 3' into it. Luckily had to stop to move the irrigation pivot and had trouble with that, by the time that was done it was raining, finished yesterday and never saw either of them :).
Quote from: Larry on June 26, 2013, 09:36:07 PM
I just hates it when the DanG squirrel gets in the bird feeder. I should shoot it. ;D
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Most of the fawns are up and running now so I noticed the does are back to associating with the bucks. Towards the middle of July it will be time for the fawns to start moving with the rest of the clan and the whole family will be together.
they got the animals hugging the trees now great :D :)
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The gang of five are still growing there racks. There is a sixth buck but he always lags behind anywhere from 50 to a hundred yards. A lot of times he will be in the brush looking out at his buddies. He has the biggest rack with 12 points. Musta got that rack by being a bit on the shy side. At sunrise the other morning he was standing with the sun glistening off his antlers but I didn't have the camera.
Yup, he knows what he is doing. Old is not dumb. ;D
An impressive gang!
We were hauling cattle to a pasture the other day and it's sandy so I had to drive a ways further north to turn the semi around, just across the fence from where we dumped the cattle is a pivot corner that the landlord had planted trees in. Anyway while I was headed back that direction a doe and fawn crossed the road in front of me and the doe scared up 2 bucks in the corner, almost clobbered one of them, they took off, dad and my nephew were on the other side of the trees putting up a fencer, I knew it was gonna be close. The 2 bucks broke through the trees, cleared the fence and missed dad and his pickup by a couple of feet (he was outside on the fenceline) he said he heard something coming but sure was surprised to see them :D, and they were honkin', DanG Detroit diesels anyway.
Put out a new trail cam this year, and after a week of seeing doe and fawns, finally picked up a shot of a buck.
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Been seeing a lot of big whitetails this year, mostly going down the hill on the Reservation, which is surprising since whitetails are open year round there. They are really taking over and mule deer are getting harder to find, especially with any size.
Are there no Sitka deer that far inland? They are little deer. They were introduced onto Haida Gwaii and I think they hunt them most of the year. Hard on the cedar regen.
An odd rack on this one.
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Couple pics from last night.
Not sure why the mottled look to the neck hair.
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Not that mottled to me, looks like a good stump lick, I'm figuring a young one for your area with good genes,, real good genes, this one would be hard to pass around here, at least near the end of the season, david
Both are nice to find on your camera. ;D
This one on camera last evening.
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YES IT TIME TO GET STARTED
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Rice Brand and yellow acorns {grits}
Nice bucks. I gotta dust my cameras off and get them out. :-\
If these latest picks don't get one all stirred up and ready to hunt nothing will, getting mine out in just a minute,
Wow, and grits, too.
Trying to learn to post videos. If I did it correct Boss Buck 7 pt that the 10 pt ran from.
http://youtu.be/ghff7Mki8_4
Bennie C
Nice video elk42! that's some cool stuff to see, david
It is interesting how they know who is boss.
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It is interesting how they know who is boss.
Sort of like WIVES. ::)
When you feed lady deer yellow acorns {grits } they dance like this.
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BEAR
The bear has become a real problem on the deer lease. This year they have
wrecked three deer feeders already.
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He been around since back in 2008? Or is the Primos new and date not set yet?
I see Mama Bear is teaching her little guys bad habits, too. :)
Beenthere
That was my friends cam and he did not reset the date. The photo was taken
about two weeks ago. The middle one was taken this morning and I was on my
stand an saw him.
The 10 point on Boss buck got murdered on the lease next to us.
That leaves the 7 for you. ;D
Hello All
Another grandson got a young buck on my stand.
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Elk, it looks as though you may have lost YOUR stand. :D
That is a nice one.
THAT'S what it's all about! :) :) :)
POSTONLT40HD
I don't mind if they hunt with me in the stand it is a good time to bond. I have three grandson that likes to hunt with me. Also I owe them because they help me build a shed over my LT15.
Congrats to another Grandson. There is nothing like watching your Children and Grandchildren becoming responsible hunters.
I've found a couple nice ones here at work...
Very symmetrical 8-pointer
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And what I believe to be a huge 9-pointer
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Nice bucks.
Can you hunt them there? (not while at work, but at another time in season).
Quote from: beenthere on November 21, 2013, 01:45:35 PM
Nice bucks.
Can you hunt them there? (not while at work, but at another time in season).
Unfortunately, at this point, no. That's not to say that people aren't out there after them every day, a large piece of land in an otherwise developed area is a draw for all kinds of shady activities, poaching being a big one this time of year. I am actively trying to get at least an archery lottery established, but since it's city-owned property, it would have to go through the downtown minded city council. It's a shame - I am essentially the caretaker for an 8100 acre game preserve. At least I know where to go looking for sheds in the early spring! :D
Urban seasons seem to be on the increase, maybe this would work in your area, it does help reduce the vehicle incidents and in breeding issues, but on the other hand its nice to see how big deer can become when allowed to get some age, david
Quote from: drobertson on November 22, 2013, 08:47:07 AM
Urban seasons seem to be on the increase, maybe this would work in your area, it does help reduce the vehicle incidents and in breeding issues, but on the other hand its nice to see how big deer can become when allowed to get some age, david
I agree - There's a lot of politickin' involved, and since some of this property is claimed as city park (although we maintain ownership/management of it), that means that the Parks folks have a say in what goes on. That being said, the head of Parks is not a fan of hunting/wildlife management of any kind, and according to my records, has successfully maintained that opinion for the past 30 years ::)
Hunting in east Texas, we are getting bigger and better deer with better management.
http://www.polkcountytoday.com/deerpics102713.html
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Ron, is that a spring, salt lick, or ??
That same spot gets a lot of business, Ron. ???
An old mineral site from previous years still gets activity.
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Mom, pop, and the twins taking care of my grass. No charge.
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Picture out of the kitchen window.
B-I-L is a university wildlife biologist that specializes in deer. We have discussed several times what is going on in the picture. We believe the buck is the does previous year fawn that just stuck around. In most cases the doe runs off the fawns from the previous year (at least the buck fawns) right before dropping new fawns. I've only seen this happen a few times in the last 50 years.
I've been seeing this foursome almost daily for the last month. This was the first time they were close enough together to get em all in the picture.
That is a mighty nice picture.
I didn't get a picture but this morning on my way to work I had 3 buck run across the road in front of me. biggest in front smallest in back. all in velvet. was really kool to see. Happy I saw them before they decided they wanted a closeup of the truck grill.
The lighting was perfect to really show off the velvet covered antlers. would have been a great shot.
A special picture!
I've been seeing one deer. Or so I thought,until I saw the one with another one. ;D Both bucks,but not much for horns. :( Take two sticks,about 6 inches long,with lobes, and you have it on top on thier heads.
Monday night we were driving back from one of my wife's favorite places, Charles Town Races and Slots, and I counted 31 deer in the road or on the side. This was in 66 miles. In one group there was eleven. I know because I had to slow WAY DOWN to keep from hitting SEVERAL of them.