That is a nice buck Adam, congrats to your friend. Little 6 pointer came by. Also saw a bigger 8 pointer, I think the one from my earlier trail camera picture posted, make a scrape and wandered by. No shots though as my camera was still in backpack. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Went out this morning and got a large doe. Saw a spike buck and let it walk. I was driving out of the woods and a guy in front of me had a huge buck in his truck. I think he was celebrating because I could smell the marijuana just driving behind him. Kind of mad me made that idiots like that are in the woods with guns in their hands. Can't wait for Archery to be the only choice of weapons to hunt with again.
My best two pics so far on the camera. I'm not going to get to hunt until the first weekend in december, so this will have to do me for now. I'm not great at aging deer on a camera... it's easier for me in real life. What age do you put on these fellas? Actually, might be the same buck at different angles. I'm guessing 3 or 4, hoping it's 3 Lampasas County, Texas in the hill country, so like Rob's location, a 130-150 is a monster. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
here you go - looks to have 3 kickers Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Those are some blood pumping bucks FarmerDave and Gershwin! Here is a cool picture of a little piebald yearling that is in my woods. 20 some years ago I saw one, and now this photo shows that the gene for this is still in the local herd. Image Unavailable, Please Login
wow, that's bigger than anything I've seen on my cams. not sure if you are in an antler restriction county, but he's definitely inside 13"! I'm still learning, but studying all I can. 2nd picture looks like a little belly and thick neck. Not seeing any neck wrinkles. My guess is at least 3.5. He's not 2.5, but maybe 4.5?
I'm real sick to my stomach right now. We had 6" or so of new snow. Started before dawn and has snowed all day. It is beautiful and you can see great in the woods. I took a muzzle loader out to a tree stand at 5:30 am and stayed there until around 10. Got soaking wet so decided to still hunt. Weather was perfect for my route. I moved into a creek bed that has several ravines feeding into it and set up for a call. 2 hits on a grunt call and in 5 minutes 3 bucks had come out from the ravines. One was a massive 12 pointer, then a medium 8 and a fork following them. I watched them circle me for a few minutes the hit the call again and the 12 made a bee line to me. He stopped broadside at 40 yards and I sighted on him with a nice oak tree rest. Pop! Just the cap went off, real light. The buck stared at me while I tried to slip on a new cap, but did not wait long enough. It would have been my best buck by far. Tracked him for 2 hrs but he stayed on the move.
I still haven't filled my Texas tag yet. Have been working hard at it though with over 30 hours of seat time. Right now think we're post rut and moon wasn't good last week so nothing much moving especially during the day. I'm looking forward to last two weeks of December for Texas. That said I have a special trip coming up starting Wednesday. Hopefully it works out.
Came across a doe this afternoon in the snow. I was using white out camo and got within 20 yards. Since I was not in the are that I'm watching for big bucks I put her in the freezer. On Friday am I saw 15 deer. They were very active prior to this new blizzard. 2 were bucks, an 8 pointer and later a 6 pointer being chased by a dog.
A few hunting scene shots. Sorry, no big bucks. Winter wonderland. Also a few (non-snow) photos of some adjacent hunting property I placed an offer on to add to our territory. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Great photos...brings back fond memories of hunting up on Pleasant Pond Mountain in Maine. Got my first deer at 14, 107 lb field dress doe, with a 30/30 Marlin lever action with bead sights and didn't shoot straight, but was light and didn't kick like Grandpa's 30-06. I heard running through the woods and thought it was a hunter getting chased by a bear so I shouldered my rifle and kept it pointed at the ground in case it was game. Soon as I seen the deer I aimed and it stopped right across a stream from me and put it's head down and looked right at me. I missed with the first shot, didn't know much about trajectory then, but when it ran right in front of me I caught in the back knee and everyone joked later on I didn't ruin an ounce of meat. I thought I had missed again but found blood droppings and bone fragments and followed it up the hill and got a clean shot to the back of the head. Gutting my first deer wasn't bad, didn't have eyes rolling back to watch me like some.
So ho did everyone do so far? We got about two more weeks left for deer season here. I am going to go for 4 days straight until the last day. I had little bit of a set back....I smacked up my truck and it's not worth fixing so I am selling it to my brother who will fix it. I am going to buy I think either a late model Dodge Ram 1500 Quad cab 4x4 or a 2500 series Quad or Mega cab 4x4 that can tow some serious poundage and get me out of mud when I need to. I am going to pay cash so if you have any good leads let me know. I saw this one I was interested in. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Adam i have a 4X4 550 that i am not using 2003 with 9' bed. tough rig 65,000. let me know if that interest you.
six speed transmission. 6.0 diesel just spent 3,000 on various things incl. complete lub change. did not include labor. $20,000 with warranty, 6 months, by me