Deer hunting BS thread

Hmm, I like this idea.

 

I was looking at pictures from last season and was wondering, do y’all think these are the same two deer from last year? The first one, last year was a double split brow tine 11 pt, this year a 9 pt. They look similar to me. The second one is an 8 that I shot with a bow in September.

The first one, his main beam on his left side has that little hook and the second one has them short brow tines.

 

i dunno if this helps you make your mind up but i under exposed and heightened the contrast to help define them antlers

 

Mine stuck his tongue out at me too!

 

Same buck with my boy

 

I'm thinking it's the same deer but really hard to tell.

 

That's a good one!

 

Very nice deer

 

Thank you Maner! It's my best to date and the only I have, worth showing off! lol

 

Well show it off cause it’s a good one

 

Thank you Bob! I know it looks like I gut shot him, but he was quartered away pretty hard. I was actually aiming for his right armpit. The whole front left shoulder was blown to bits and that 480 grain bullet scrambled his vitals pretty good.

A blood trail even Ray Charles could follow! The blood trail was that thick for about 70-80 yards. I think he bled everything out in that time!

 

I probably won't ever kill another one of this caliber, so this one is my buck of a lifetime!

 

Funny thing is, I've been hunting this place for about 6 or 7 years now and have only seen spikes, some forks and some basket rack bucks. Still to this day, I wonder where this big giant came from!

'm mainly a meat hunter, so I'll just shoot the first big nanny doe I see and call it a day. 7 or 8 does will last my family of 5, until the next hunting season comes around. Rinse and repeat!

 

nice!congrats!

 

I have 3 tascos and they are the main cameras I put in public land along with a stealthcam I got on sale for like 15$ at academy that won't keep the date and time after a year. They don't take good pics but I haven't had one stolen and if I do it is like 40 bucks lost including batteries and SD card. The pics are also good enough for me to tell what it is, but the exposure changes if I do picture bursts for some reason. One of them crapped out after only a year but the other two are still running.
First picture looks like this:

Second and third look like this:


It does well at night though in my opinion


And I'll throw in my own pic of a hawk for fun. Wonder how many have pics like this?

 

Is the night time photo deer still around? He looks good!

 

Public land so it is anyone's guess but I talked with a USFS guy in charge of the national Forest and he said he would know if one like that was killed and he hasn't heard anything. I had pictures of him 5-10 different nights last year on a mock scrape but all an hour after shooting light. Stopped getting pictures of him when a dozer came through over winter break and passes about a foot in front of the tree my cam was on cutting a fire road. I need to get back to figure out where he is this year, he always came from the same direction in pics I had of him and that is a hell of a deer for public land in Mississippi.

I'll try to find pics of the dozer

 

Been using Browning Command Ops Pros for last 2 years. Battery life is excellent. Attached is a typical night Trail Mode pic. Also has Time Lapse and Video Mode.

 

SNP is minutes from the house,you cant remove anything there,not even mushrooms or ginseng

 

Thats a real nice deer,congrats