victor3ranger

Thank you very much for the link, that actually answered some other questions I had as well about them.

I have used pears before, deer will go crazy

I have a Barnett Buck Commander crossbow and was wondering if the swhacker broadheads will work with a crossbow that shoots 365fps?

We had someone drive thru our place last year and put up a tripod stand in the middle of our half section. I took pics of the track (snow on the ground) all the way in to the stand and pics of the stand itself. After that I disassembled it and moved it to another farm. The jerkwad opened our gates, left them open and drove over another pasture fence getting to the stand location.

Look at the Marlin XL7 270. You can get them with the scope combo for around $330-$360, depends on where you buy. I have a couple of them and I can tell you right now that these rifles are shooters. They also come with adjustable trigger and use a savage barrel. For the money they are hard to beat.

Due to combat injuries I can't shoot my compound anymore, so this year I bought a Barnett Buck Commander. For those of you who have been shooting for a while what broadheads are you using? I would like to stick with a fixed 3 blade if possible since I still have several new ones. Does it help to line up the blades with the fletch on these? Or does it really matter? Do the fixed blade broadheads fly pretty close to the field points??

Three rifles come to mind right off the bat. Howa 1500, excellent rifle for around $450-$500. Marlin XL7 or XS7 for around $350 with the scope, excellent rifle if you float the barrel. Next is thte TC Venture, another excellent rifle.

Already have a few that lost velvet about 10 days ago but most all the others still have it.

I think I read this wrong the first time. If you heard that the guy is no longer doing taxidermy then I would be on his door step finding out it that were true, if so where is my deer.

What I have always heard was as long as the deer were free ranging they would eat natural food sources and feeding corn would have no ill effect since they would not really eat enough to cause any kind of imbalance in thier diet.

If I take mine to be mounted in Nov I usually don't get it back until June at the earliest. A lot of these guys send the cape off to have it tanned. Hope this helps.

That 10 is a nice buck, I think he should be in the mid to high 150's or low 160's. For sure a shooter if I were to see him on my place. Good luck, hope you get a shot at that big boy. Might want to start setting out a feeder or something to keep him hanging around.

What I have seen so far with the drought is if you still have a water source fairly close then the deer will flock to your feeder. I haven't stopped my feeders since last season, seems like the food sources are slim so I would say help them out, start running your corn.

I am hoping the one big 8 point in the first 2 pics is in the high 140's to 150's.

I would give him one more year.

These are a few nice bucks where my wife hunts. What do you think the one on the far right and the 8 with the bent G3 will score?

I was thinking the same, it isn't a texas deer but not too far from there. I can post a couple other bucks from a different feeder that are great bucks coming up.

The big deer is one I pasted maybe 8 different times last year, figured then he was around 3.5 and scored 130 gross and would have dressed around 160lbs, this year he has put on a lot of inches so I'm not sure how big. I have two 8's that I have gotten in the past 10 years that score 140 net and they don't look as big as this guy. The forked G2 buck is a 2.5 this year, he is a regular to the feeder for a long time now.

Here is another pic of him under the feeder, a little blurry but you get the idea of the size from the side.

The deer looking at the camera is the one I am wondering about, any idea how old and how big?

270 with a 150gr partitian or accubond will do the trick. If you reload bump them hot for extra range.

This is the first year I have run them year round with 7 different cameras going. Wanted to see if there were deer that don't show up during the hunting season or move after they shed the velvet.

If that was the your email on the first message you sent then I sent another one from my other email address to see if it went thru.

I know how you feel, I go thru withdrawl waiting to go see what is on them. I usually check mine at least two weeks apart, sometimes up to a month depending on where they are set up at. If they are at one of my feeders I have to pull them at two weeks, if not I will have over 12,000 pics on a single set which takes forever to download.