nemodeerhuntersneighbor

Yeah but i didn't have a basket. I had to carry all 15 over half a mile back to my pickup. I had all the little ones stuffed in the back pockets of my jeans

Found 15 in 2 hours yesterday. Found them all in my bean plot and within a few hundred yards of it. Oddly all of the ones in it were the tiny ones. I didn't find the bigger ones till i started searching surrounding timber edges. The most I had ever found in a day was 7 in the same spot last year. I think we wound up finding bout 10 more there by the end of the year, so I am pretty confident I am gonna find several more there when I go back in a couple weeks. If I can wait that long. Heres a couple pics of the bigger ones.

Better late than never. I guess.

Well, i found him, 3 months after I shot him. I was hunting on a big ridge on the morning of november 7 when this big guy chased a doe by me about half hour after daylight. When I let the arrow go I thought it felt good but when I saw him run off I saw the arrow sticking out about 3/4 of the way. My heart sank. He ran about 100yds and I could see glimpses of him walking through the woods a couple minutes later. I had low hope of finding him. I came back about 2pm that afternoon. I quickly found the blood trail and followed it a little ways. I found my arrow where i first saw him stop. It had solid blood about 1/4 way up and less up to bout 1/2. I followed the blood trail aways longer. It got weaker and eventually i lost it. I searched around where i lost blood for about and hour for more. Nothing. I walked farther south where i thought he probably had went and looked for sign along the fence to neighbors property. There was only one small draw on the neighbors property and I started to climb the fence, but I stopped myself. I thought to myself, ' I dont think he is dead, and if he isnt and he went in this draw I might have a chance at him coming back for the doe he lost.' So i stopped and returned to my stand to see if he would come back. He didnt. I went the last 3 months convinced he was dead. Fast forward to yesterday Feb 16. I took off walking toward this draw to look for sheds and i wanted to know for sure that he wasnt in there. Well i walked down one side and find a small shed, got to the end and started back. Thats when I saw him about 250 yds from where i lost blood in november. I took off at a dead run. I was so excited and disappointed in myself at the same time. I had let this buck (my biggest ever) lay there for over 3 months without really searching hard. But I was excited to recover him. After a go ahead from our game warden I recovered the head. He will take his place on my wall. I am proud to have killed him, but humbled by the fact that I lost the meat and cape. I have learned my lesson. Sometimes it looks like you made a perfect hit and they get away, and sometimes it looks bleek and they still die. I won't let this happen again. Bowhunting is good about teaching you a lesson, isn't it? Put the tape on him. 153" gross. My best by 7" My big buck and little buck(thats what i call him)

I believe he is a 5 yr old maybe 6. This is the 3rd year I have had pics of him. His rack looks the most normal this year. He must've had an injury before the first year I had pics of him. He had about a 15 inch spike on his right that year with a perfectly normal 4 point side on his left side. Last year it grew too about 18 inch spike but had more of a beam form and a low brow tine. And this year it looks even more normal but you can tell from the pic that is still alot higher off his head than his left. I will post the pics of him the last couple years.

He goes in for the smooch. He gets shot down!!

too bad the last one isnt legal

I dont put a camera out in the summer unless its on salt. I try to establish at least one good lick per farm

age: old enough score: big enough Let him have it.

I made sure last time i checked it that the pic setting was on high. And yes I always have a memory card in it.

I have a D-40. It takes very poor grainy pics and the flash range isn't very good. Other than that though the camera functions great. Trigger is not exceptional, but plenty fast. Battery life is excellent. It will last at least 2 months(but it uses D cells which cost more). Overall i like the camera for the price. Never had any trouble with it. So if you can live with lower quality pics, by 2 of these instead of an M-40 (don't have any experience with those, so I cant compare) and get twice as many pics. But my brother-in-law bought one a d-40 this summer (mine I bought last year and could have been previous year model) and its pics are considerably better quality than mine. There still not good, but very decent. So take that as you will.

Plain old wheat works good for deer. Seems like they'll eat it hard until the first killing frost(when it goes dormant) and then they kinda slow down.

Definitely either turnips or rape. Hard to tell because their almost the same thing. Pulling one up will tell you.

We have some of the biggest most advanced farming equipment known to man. Automatic shutoffs, GPS driven autosteering, etc. Problem is their to big to get to most of my food plots. So I use 40 yr old 12' disk. I usually have to make about 5 trips cause its not heavy enough to turn the ground over when i'm startin a new plot. And it doesn't have a harrow so I have to make several trips to chop the chunks up. Then I use a fourwheeler spreader. And the last step is pray mother nature takes care of the rest. Primitive:)

Boy hes hard to judge. He doesn't have much for brow tines and his tines aren't overly long. But he does have a ton of mass. I would say not very confidently around 130"