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Post by Dutch on Sept 2, 2013 18:01:43 GMT -5
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Post by davet on Sept 2, 2013 18:14:02 GMT -5
Yeah....you could get your drag line around those horns and prolly not have 'em slip off.
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Post by bushmaster on Sept 2, 2013 18:31:44 GMT -5
He's too big to fit on Gal's cart! Nice buck, let him go so he can grow!
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Post by Dutch on Sept 2, 2013 18:41:09 GMT -5
He's too big to fit on Gal's cart! Nice buck, let him go so he can grow! I gotta get her a cart for him! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2013 18:57:00 GMT -5
Niiiiice!
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He'll do
Sept 2, 2013 19:18:33 GMT -5
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Post by bake545 on Sept 2, 2013 19:18:33 GMT -5
Nice one, now ya just have to kill him. That's the easy part, right?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2013 19:19:32 GMT -5
Bruiser!
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Post by Dutch on Sept 2, 2013 19:20:09 GMT -5
Piece a cake.  |
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Post by ridgecommander on Sept 3, 2013 18:22:27 GMT -5
I like the age of some of the bucks you have been posting. That does for me as much as the antlers.
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Post by Dutch on Sept 3, 2013 18:31:55 GMT -5
Ridge, I'm guessing he's 4.5, maybe 5.5. I'm like you, more interested in the age. Age determines trophy status. his antlers are just a result of WHERE he was born.
Had he been born in Iowa, with all the groceries out there, his antlers would have been much larger, but, he's still an older, wiser deer, and that is what makes him special.
My brother killed one up there that after we sent the tooth away turned out to be 6.5 years old. Scored 125. Put him in Iowa/Illinois/Ohio and I bet he would have been 145-160.
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Post by bushmaster on Sept 3, 2013 18:40:19 GMT -5
I'm a rack man myself, the older they are the tougher the meat!
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Post by bowbum on Sept 3, 2013 18:45:56 GMT -5
Very nice mature PA buck. Good luck.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2013 18:48:39 GMT -5
What's in the middle of the picture in the back ground? A stump or some other animal?
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Post by Dutch on Sept 3, 2013 19:46:37 GMT -5
Stump, altho a number of porkies like that spot. Often get deer and porky pics.
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Post by bake545 on Sept 3, 2013 20:23:52 GMT -5
I'd say 4.5 with that gut starting to sag a bit. Could be 5.5 too, plenty old enough though. Hopefully you get some pics later in the year of him before the rut and hopefully you're in the pics!
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Post by Dutch on Sept 3, 2013 20:36:42 GMT -5
I'd say 4.5 with that gut starting to sag a bit. Could be 5.5 too, plenty old enough though. Hopefully you get some pics later in the year of him before the rut and hopefully you're in the pics! I'd actually prefer that an 11 year old be in the pics! |
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Post by bake545 on Sept 3, 2013 20:41:53 GMT -5
I'd say 4.5 with that gut starting to sag a bit. Could be 5.5 too, plenty old enough though. Hopefully you get some pics later in the year of him before the rut and hopefully you're in the pics! I'd actually prefer that an 11 year old be in the pics! That would do too! |
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Post by dougell on Sept 4, 2013 11:56:38 GMT -5
For the best several years,I've been getting huge bucks on camera.The pictures are almost always at night and I rarely ever see any of those deer.If it ween't for trail cameras,I wouldn't even believe we had deer like that around here.Twice in the past 10 years I've killed decent bucks that I've gotten pictures of and both times I shot the deer more than a mile from where I got the picture.They get old for a reason.Last year I got 4 pictures of a nice main frame 10 point with a third main beam on my property.The first picture was on thanksgiving day during daylight and the other three were the next day.I never saw that deer before and never heard anybody talking about him.I ended up killing him the first afternoon of rifle season close to 2 miles from where I got pictures of him.I love seeing the pictures but it rarely gets my hopes up.Most of those deer won't be around in a couple of months and the one's that do stick around rarely show themselves during daylight hours.
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Post by Dutch on Sept 4, 2013 12:21:41 GMT -5
Shot a nice 8 pt in 2009, had a pic of him a half mile away.
Gal shot a nice buck the other year, had him on a trail cam 3 hours earlier. His last photo op. LOL He was a resident deer.
I figure when you get pics of a buck in summer, regularly, then he's living within the area of the trail cam. Those bucks we get pics of during the fall are those searching to spread their genes, and could live 2-3 miles away.
Add a little pressure to them and almost every pic is at night.
I am actually surprised how many times, even in the rut, I get pics of the resident deer.
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Post by dougell on Sept 4, 2013 12:57:17 GMT -5
That may be because you have a more stable diet for them.They cover a large territory around here and most of the bigs bucks seem to dissapear this time of year and eventually show up several miles away.Three year ago,I was getting almost daily pictures of 4 slammer bucks from August through Sept.I would have laid money on it that I would kill the biggest of them because they were so routine in the pattern.I had a stand set up but didn't get the right wind until the first friday of archery season.I hunted before work that day and all 4 came right past me.They were within range but borderline so I passed.I figured I'd move a little closer and get them the next time the wind was right.Well,they disapeared and I ended up killing a 15 inch 8 point before work on the last week of October.My old neighbor stopped in to my office a few days later and he told me that he saw the bigger of the 4 several miles away in Treasure lake.I hunted near that area the last day to fill a dmap tag and that buck came past me at 12 yards.Two days later a guy killed him and it was several miles from where I got the pictures.
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