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Buck pictures on your game cameras yet????


Meat-Run

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THE WEEK OF HARD HORN.... historically this is the toughest week or so to get pictures, FOR ME, of deer in general especially a good buck. Anyone else notice this?

Once that velvet comes off its a new animal out there. Once they get get actively rubbing and scraping the cameras get fun again! laugh

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and to top it off.... they found out White Oak acorns are beginning to fall. They abandom our little mineral sites or lttl corn pile to capture pics.

We pull all cameras around labor day from their summer sites and let those sites go cold and begin to move them to bottle necks and major trails to get pics of bucks on the move.

Good Luck!

Ken

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Thats true Labs4me.... I suppose hard horn & acorn drop kind of coincide so thats a good explanation of why its tough to put a finger on them. That and I think now they are just wandering around polishing up that fancy new crown theyve got on any random sapling they can find grin

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After viewing about 200 of 205 pic's on my cam after sitting one week, this little guy showed up still in Velvet. Had tons of Does and spikes. Hopefully he will stick around after the Velvet comes off? smile

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Hope he is there for you leech. Nice buck for sure.

Thanks MA, it looks like you have a few nice ones on your cam to pick from also. Good luck! wink

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Hi Leech - How are you doing? I hope you guys meet up this fall!! Good Luck!!

I've been waiting for a call to go back up to Winni ice fishing! grin Thanks for the Good luck on the buck! smile

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Not sure if I'd stick him given the chance or not. What is he maybe 120"?

Two year-old or three year-old?

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bigbucks probley should send you a message on where your hunting is by long prairie since i have some land out there. I've seen some nice ones this year. i hope that guy is somewhere close to co rd 36!!!

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i agree with bear 55, a stud 2 year old. if you look at his belly, its not saging at all. and the skin around his face and neck, there isnt any extra hanging skin. i know i would have one heck of a time passing him up, but the best thing to do would be to let him go another year or two. nice lookin buck though.

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This is the buck I want to see this year I call him "shadow" cuz he's only came in in the shadows of the night.

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solid 9 pointer what do you guys think?

wish I would have remembered to reset the date and time, came in on the 5th of sept but I have no idea the time besides after dark...

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Midwest Whitetails,Bill Winke states, that some bucks are just knockturnal deer and don't show themselves until the peak rut. He goes onto stating to find a killable buck you need to find ones that move consistently during shooting hours and proven on your cameras. This deer got big for being smart and only moving at dark but maybe his habits will change now that we have some cold weather, good luck!

Meat-Run

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In MN we hunt the toughest deer in the midwest. Highest pressure and few mature animals. I somewhat agree with Mr. Winke but if I only hunted big bucks which i got "daylight" photos of.... I may as well hang up the bow!

There are a few animals I believe which are special and nearly unkillable. But usually its us, the hunter is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Mr. Big is on his feet somewhere.

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Slimgrizzly,

I agree and it's like comparing apples to oranges between the two states plus he's got allot of land to work with vs. most of us "average-joes" in MN. In the past 4-5 years I've got many big buck images all at night, never have I gotten even one during shooting times and they maybe a little pressured but if they're on there feet during the day it's more likely unreachable (bedding).

mr

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No such thing as an unkillable buck, just a matter of being in the right place at the right time. That's the tricky part!

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Well SNS you've proven that from last year... grin And I was lucky to harvest a good buck (for my 1st by bow) for never seeing this deer before I shot him.

Just like fishing, there's always fish eating you just need to be there when they do eat. On that note I've been a huge believer in the moon/feeding windows on my In-Fish calendar and the last 3 years starting around the end of September its very consistent but only see young deer in those feeding windows.

mr

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