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Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
14 points and about a 2-foot spread ....... I don't know Baker. Might want to pass on him ...........
WOW!!!
Feelslikefar.
5 year old buck +
These pictures are nothing special, and I don't know if it's going to be noticeable just looking at two of them. I only saw it clicking through a few of them. The "super moon" last night was so bright the shadows of trees show up on the ground.
Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
I’m going for a record. It’s so unfathomable that I think I may have already achieved it, I’m just putting it out of touch for future generations. I’m on day 53 over a feeder without a single buck visiting. Not a spike, 4 pt, anything. It’s pretty remarkable and at this point I want to see if I can make it the whole season
356
5 year old buck +
They will show up eventually. Last year I went nearly 100 hours without seeing a deer. Over half of that was during deer camp (no scent control practiced). I am sure they were close by, but wow, so seeing deer (or bucks) can be frustrating.
I have a feeder that runs year round. I know for sure there hasnt been a buck to it since at least last winter - and probably before that.
Brian662
5 year old buck +
Are those fawns? They're looking pretty slender for this time of year.
If it were easy killing a mature buck at a feeder - we wouldnt have a buck left. The days of consistently killing mature bucks over feeders with a crossbow during early season are gone - at least in this neck of the woods. I have more mature bucks this year than I ever have had. I have yet to see one.
Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
Definitely easy in our neck of the woods. My observation is there literally no bucks on this side of my farm. Not that they made a conscious effort to avoid feeders. Our buck harvest would be low single digits if you excluded feeders/bait
BenA
5 year old buck +
My observation from hunting deer in various parts of the country: baiting can be the easy button, or it can be an exercise in futility depending on the area deer herd. And, there are various levels of effectiveness between the two depending on population size, habitat, and pressure type and frequency.
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Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
This one must have found all the acorns and then some. Guessing she is pushing 1,200 lbs. 
Son and I were discussing this buck - trying to put an age on him and finally decided he needed one more year. He is a really nice deer for our neck of the woods - probably right at 140. Our deer dont ever have mass
Then the deer below showed up. The deer on the left is the deer above
Feelslikefar.
5 year old buck +
It's been one year since I got a picture of a mature buck.
Probably 20 years since I've seen one hunting.
Probably 20 years since I've seen one hunting.
25 years ago, when I bought our place, The hogs on our place were easy day time targets. They gradually became more and more nocturnal until ten years ago, we would go all year without seeing a hog in the day time.
Up until ten years ago, I had never baited. Folks I know had started baiting about 15 years ago. Grand daughter came along and we started baiting to improve their chances. They killed some nice three year olds on spin feeders. Today, we rarely have a buck older than a 1.5 feed at a spin feeder. We then started spreading feed on the ground and that improved success on older deer again. Now, the bucks will still feed on bait spread on the ground, but rarely in shooting light. I just think it is a learned habit - when you have a feeder in every little ten acre piece if private ground - animals adapt. I have 15 adjacent land owners. Some acreage as small as 5 acres. Almost all of it is hunted and almost all if it is baited. I have more mature bucks than I ever have. I had a buck last year that was a 6.5 yr old eleven pt. He lived here for years. I live on my property. I never saw him.
Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
Ark deer are smarter I reckon. I could send thousands of daylight pics at a feeder the last four year. This one is 300 yards from a property line where they only hunt bait piles. Every single deer that has been killed on my neighboring properties has been killed over bait I would bet my pinky on it.
We have hunted this deer pretty hard this year, starting with the velvet season early sept. When we were not there, he would show up just at that time you would think MAYBE you had enough light to shoot - maybe. When you hunt him, he shows up an hour later.
He did the exact same thing last year.
BenA
5 year old buck +
Just educated differently. Kentucky has a short gun season.
They may be more pressured. Even a catfish responds to pressure. I can throw a bait in a seething mass of feeding catfish at the fish feeder and immediately hook up. I might catch one more - then they leave. It might be 45 min before we catch another. If catfish and hogs and ducks respond to excessive pressure - it is fair to say deer would also
Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
Respectfully disagree. We have well over a month of gun season. There’s no difference in ml and rifle. We have an extremely long bow/xbow season. Early season brings in tons of people to hunt velvet where 99.9% of bucks are shot over bait. I think the reality is bait is the most attractive feature any property can offer and with enough time spent hunting over it, an any buck can eventually be killed.
