Here are my 2 big guys from last year glad to see they made it through the Orange vests and the winter, one of them is "Buckaneer" cause he is blind in his right eye.
I don't even have my cams out yet. I pull them Jan 1st or the last day I hunt and don't put them back out until 2 months before the season starts. So normally not until August 1st.
I don't know who this is to be honest. The one I named Bone-afide has had the best growth so far but I can't identify this one from this angle for certain. I think it may be Maverick: This is Bone-afied:
Man if you had gotten him last year we would have taken second:-) this year he is gonna be a brute!!!!
Now that I look at it compared with the old one from last season I think it probably is Bone-afide based on the shape of those brows. Yeah he was a dandy last year, I had him walk past me at 50 yards one evening there late in the season and I refused to take a shot at him. I really thought he'd come back in closer that evening but he turned north and that was the last time I saw him in person. The one I really wanted was Crossbow and I spent most of my stand time looking for him over on the other property. I think he would have scored better than Bone-afide.
This is my mystery buck. I had pics of him after he shed but not sure if I had early season pics of him with a rack.
Fuzzy photo but I'm pretty sure this is my lucky 13 from last year. Found his sheds and now waiting on him to grow some more.
Nothing too crazy on my cameras yet but my bucks dropped their antlers really really late this year so I'm hoping they get a jump start with with the mineral sites and feeder filled with alfalfa pellet/corn mix. Pump them full of protein, calcium, and phosphorus!! The last picture here shows a buck still holding antlers on April 18th...!?
Yep, I believe it's the same as well. I must be doing something right for him to be on the same 9 acres 3 hours apart. These are two different spots on my property too. I'm having a hard time figuring out how old he is though. He seems like he might be old because of his dark nose and weathered eyes but in some picture angles his body just doesn't seem to match up. What do you think?
I meant the hard horned buck and the last velvet, but you could be right about the last 2 velvets also.
It's really hard to tell right now, I'll just have to wait and see when his antlers grow in. Either way, I'm gonna get me a buck this year, getting skunked 2 years in a row is no bueno.
