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Very Nice Bill, I hope he sticks around for you as well. He would be a dandy to hang on the wall.
She told me to walk this wayyyyyyy
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Bill
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Strawhead, Mo,
Thanks! I hope he (they) stick around also.
I've never kept records before but I'm logging when and where these two jokers show up in front of a camera in daylight hours. If one of them keeps doing like they have been for another 6 weeks they're in trouble. :).
My hope is to catch one before the fall pattern sets in. We'll see how that works out.
Thanks! I hope he (they) stick around also.
I've never kept records before but I'm logging when and where these two jokers show up in front of a camera in daylight hours. If one of them keeps doing like they have been for another 6 weeks they're in trouble. :).
My hope is to catch one before the fall pattern sets in. We'll see how that works out.
Bill
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Everyone measures but I'm not a real numbers guy, on my farm the rule is if you think holy $hit! then its ok to shoot. But by the numbers I'm coming up with 159 gross with maybe 2 inches of deductions. Pretty symmetrical.
My 15 year old son names all the deer and he says he can't find a name for him cause he's to much of perfect pretty boy.
By the way $5000/acre will take this place :)
My 15 year old son names all the deer and he says he can't find a name for him cause he's to much of perfect pretty boy.
By the way $5000/acre will take this place :)
I'd say your son had it right- that buck is a "Pretty Boy" if I ever saw one! I'd say your score estimate is not too high, either. Around here, the patterns shift around the beginning of September, so if it's similar there and they're still in the same patterns in a month, you should have a good shot. Great pics!
Bill
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I hear ya Jeff. But I haven't yet figured out the supposed range shift on my place.
The deer around here don't shift, they vacation. Many summer bucks leave sometime in sept/oct but then some are back during periods of the rut, then they vacation, then they come home for Christmas.
We've killed a few summer bucks in Nov when their supposed to be in their fall range. We've also seen summer bucks not return until spring, some come back in early Jan, some never leave.
Tells me if someone is telling you a summer buck won't be on your place to kill in the fall their wrong. A mature buck is just as different as any man. Some stay regardless of the circumstances, some leave when they had it better at home.
Go figure :)
The deer around here don't shift, they vacation. Many summer bucks leave sometime in sept/oct but then some are back during periods of the rut, then they vacation, then they come home for Christmas.
We've killed a few summer bucks in Nov when their supposed to be in their fall range. We've also seen summer bucks not return until spring, some come back in early Jan, some never leave.
Tells me if someone is telling you a summer buck won't be on your place to kill in the fall their wrong. A mature buck is just as different as any man. Some stay regardless of the circumstances, some leave when they had it better at home.
Go figure :)
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I wonder how many of them actually leave, and how many just shift most of their activity to different hours, and often following a different food source for a period of time. For example, in a good acorn year (which this year should be), good luck patterning anything around here. A lot of the timber is oak dominant, and the deer just seem to wander randomly, finding fresh acorns along the way. A buck may still be there, but the patterns that seem so consistent are pretty much worthless for the rest of the fall. I think they just cut the time they are on their feet way down, saving their energy for the rut.
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Good luck bill
Scenttrails
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Hope you get him. Good luck.
Bill
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Cell pics. I'll get pretty ones in the AM. 1 lung and the liver, shot was further back than I thought and he was qtr'ing to more than I thought.
He was done the first time I quit looking. But as a good friend told me, time is your friend.
240 lbs dressed. Score? I'm to tired, tomorrow.
I've never seen a deer head bigger than a pony's head. That's a 1.5 gallon jug of bleach.
I thought he was smaller because his head and body were so big.
He was done the first time I quit looking. But as a good friend told me, time is your friend.
240 lbs dressed. Score? I'm to tired, tomorrow.
I've never seen a deer head bigger than a pony's head. That's a 1.5 gallon jug of bleach.
I thought he was smaller because his head and body were so big.
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