Hunting and Fishing ***Picture Warning***

[toyman]

Got my '12 mount back in early January. It turned out pretty nice



Filled my tag on the first day again this year in the same field. Not wall hanger like last year, but it was a pretty cool day. I watched a nice half rack early. He re-appeared an hour later about 100 yards away and decided to bed down. He got up quickly and started double timing back up the hill. When I scanned down with my bino's, another (full racked) buck was chasing. They lowered their heads and engaged. When the full racked buck stepped back, I shot him. He was a young 8. Crazy thing was when I shot, he jumped up and landed on his head and broke off the one side. This is what I found when I got to him.



Since the end of deer season, I've been hunting with my trail cams. It's a lot of fun. Here's a few pics over the past 2 months.

[nikster]

Great photos

Nik

[zippy1]

Great pictures, congrats on the buck

[ACecil]

Originally Posted by toyman

Got my '12 mount back in early January. It turned out pretty nice



Filled my tag on the first day again this year in the same field. Not wall hanger like last year, but it was a pretty cool day. I watched a nice half rack early. He re-appeared an hour later about 100 yards away and decided to bed down. He got up quickly and started double timing back up the hill. When I scanned down with my bino's, another (full racked) buck was chasing. They lowered their heads and engaged. When the full racked buck stepped back, I shot him. He was a young 8. Crazy thing was when I shot, he jumped up and landed on his head and broke off the one side. This is what I found when I got to him.



Since the end of deer season, I've been hunting with my trail cams. It's a lot of fun. Here's a few pics over the past 2 months.

Very nice!

[willyrayc59]

I shot this buck at 3:00 pm on first day. left antler fell off dragging it home. seen 2 half racks before I shot this one. and wife shot what she thought was a doe, but was a buck that had dropped it's antlers. had talked to other hunter's that seen the same thing happen.
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[Cubcrazy]

Nice pics guys!

[toyman]

Willy - we have a bunch (probably 6+) different half racks on game cams. My buddies and I are of the opinion that there are too many buck in our area and they are beating the hell out of each other. The buck I shot had an injured eye from fighting and we think that the antler that broke off was due to an injury from fighting also. The deer in our area are just starting to lose their antlers now. Anyway, nice buck.

[zippy1]

Originally Posted by toyman

Willy - we have a bunch (probably 6+) different half racks on game cams. My buddies and I are of the opinion that there are too many buck in our area and they are beating the hell out of each other. The buck I shot had an injured eye from fighting and we think that the antler that broke off was due to an injury from fighting also. The deer in our area are just starting to lose their antlers now. Anyway, nice buck.

There is something known as "buck competition" and it does come from having more bucks than does or an equal buck to doe ratio. That would be the goal of every hunting establishment. But unlikely.
An possibly you don't have a higher age class of bucks that get most of the breeding rights established during the pre rut. So the subornment bucks are competing for the breeding rights.
I wish we had that problem in our area, we have the opposite here. To many does and not enough bucks to do the breeding, then when rifle season rolls around the majority of the adult bucks are killed and the 1 1/2 year old are left breeding.
Or bucks this year lost their antlers in late December and early January, where the norm is late January into the early month of March.

[ACecil]

Originally Posted by willyrayc59

I shot this buck at 3:00 pm on first day. left antler fell off dragging it home. seen 2 half racks before I shot this one. and wife shot what she thought was a doe, but was a buck that had dropped it's antlers. had talked to other hunter's that seen the same thing happen.
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Congrats on your buck!

[Fireman72737]

My Ohio deer. Biggest one to date for me No big by any means but for a guy from NC it's a nice'n. Ha ha