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Post by Dutch on Jul 6, 2018 10:16:31 GMT -5
I refrained from posting cam pics last year because all the crap I took from the experts on here that know my land better than me, but, hey, I'm gonna post one. I hung this camera early April. It was neat to see the woods go from winter to summer over the past 3 months. from no grasses, to grasses now up to the top of a does back. From bears walking past, to now, just a black shape in the distance. Anyway, I saw the first bulbs forming on pics the first week of May. This pic was June 10th. some potential there. That lighter area across the swale is where the buck stood that I missed last year. The new growth in the timbercut is coming in nicely, and I better kill a buck here before you can no longer see a deer in it. LOL
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Post by rem700 on Jul 6, 2018 10:21:00 GMT -5
Nice group for sure dutch!!
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Post by Dutch on Jul 6, 2018 10:25:48 GMT -5
One of our bucks has a notch cut out of his ear. He survived last season. He might be the one in the back. He'll be maybe 6.5 years old this year. his best rack, IMO, was in 2015 tho, so, not sure this is him. We'll see later in the year
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Post by dougell on Jul 6, 2018 10:55:21 GMT -5
They are sneaky buggers.
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Post by 3212 on Jul 6, 2018 13:27:30 GMT -5
I haven't seen a group of bucks like that in years.I don't run cameras and don't get out to my favorite area like I used to.Nice.
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Post by davet on Jul 6, 2018 14:10:06 GMT -5
He'll be maybe 6.5 years old this year. Should be fitting to take with a 6.5 Creedmore?
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Post by dennyf on Jul 6, 2018 15:25:41 GMT -5
The "bachelor group" is down the valley a bit from camp again this summer. Third year in a row there's been quite a bunch of bucks gathered in the same area, feeding out in the chopped clover from the creek bottom. Hope that farmer keeps that field in clover for a few more years and regularly chops it, to feed his dairy.
Years ago he worked a big field above the road that was in alfalfa for several years and really drew deer, but he no longer has use of that field. Changed hands, someone else takes the hay. He owns the field below the road where the bucks hang, the brushy creek bottom and the partially wooded hillside pasture above it.
Only a half dozen bucks out Tuesday evening when we drove around about 8:30, but I bet there will be more by Labor Day?
Last two years it ran around a dozen or more down there feeding at dusk by Labor Day weekend. One year saw 15, three quarters of which were shooters, several way nicer than that. One this year is already looking like it's gonna be at least an 18" ten point.
They'll all be spread out come fall, but like Dutch's pic, nice to know there are some decent bucks around again.
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Post by Dutch on Jul 6, 2018 15:58:39 GMT -5
He'll be maybe 6.5 years old this year. Should be fitting to take with a 6.5 Creedmore? Might take the trust 260 this year. I'll give Mike the Creedmoor. Lol
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Post by Dutch on Jul 6, 2018 16:02:47 GMT -5
The first year of AR, I watched 11 bucks walk out into an alfalfa field where I used to hunt in 2G. They came out single file.
Only ONE wasn't legal.
In 2000, I walked the perimeters of those fields one evening, saw 22 bucks. Not kidding. Couple of them 20 inchers.
By 2007 you were hard pressed to see a deer on that farm.
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Post by dougell on Jul 6, 2018 16:38:11 GMT -5
Bachelor herd don't excite me.It's been my experience that that hang around til early October and then they disperse.
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Post by Dutch on Jul 6, 2018 17:23:39 GMT -5
Actually, they don't. They keep their home range then make forays for does.
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Post by cspot on Jul 6, 2018 17:33:49 GMT -5
Actually, they don't. They keep their home range then make forays for does. Are you sure about that? Always been my experience that their home ranges change in the fall. Some don't at all, but they seem to disperse out a little in my experience. Some of that may be influence by food sources as well.
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Post by cspot on Jul 6, 2018 17:36:31 GMT -5
I should add by change I am not talking about big movements. It maybe could be considered just spending more time in a different part of their home range.
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Post by Dutch on Jul 6, 2018 19:08:49 GMT -5
I should add by change I am not talking about big movements. It maybe could be considered just spending more time in a different part of their home range. That is what it is. Core area can be 75-150 acres. Home range larger tho.
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Post by twofortythree on Jul 20, 2018 11:45:42 GMT -5
Bachelor groups get me excited! They dont all leave and when the rut hits who knows who will show up! Let's you know what's in the area.
Nice pic!
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