Ok to help get everyone pumped up for the start of bow season lets see your BEST 10 bucks you have ever got on camera.
I don't have a top ten but here's a couple that are memorable. The first one is a huge 8 that I began getting pics of in late April. I had him about 25 times and on three or four different cams. I thought for sure I would be able to kill him, and I did see him once from the stand the first week of bow season. He ended up getting shot by a neighbor during the gun season. He is still one I regret not getting. This guy, I captured only about 3x on camera from June 30th until July 4th. I ended up killing him out of the same tree I had the camera in. This is him right after I arrowed him. Here is how he looks today. Blessings..........Pastorjim
I'll dig through my old pics but I lost a butt load of my oldest pics some years back so most of mine will be fairly recent. A lot of the best bucks I've seen and killed here over the years...I never got on cam...they just showed up out of nowhere. I'm still holding one back from this year too, lol.
This was a lot harder than I thought it would be, had trouble picking out ten so I had to include five honorable mentions. One of these from last year (#2, Crossbow) is this years top buck that I'm holding out current pics of. OMG Crossbow Un-named Bone-afied Un-named Un-named Un-named Maverick Syxbyfive Whitey Honorable mentions: Slonch Splits Shorty, Jaws, Maverick, un-named Un-named Un-named
No, I just edited it. Honestly I couldn't tell from the post editor box which pic was which with just lines of code for each pic and I couldn't recall where I placed his pic from last year in the order so I generic'ed it, He almost doesn't even look like the same deer this year he changed so much, I'm not sure overall that he wasn't prettier last year but he's bigger and has some pretty neat character with a split drop tine this year.
You cant describe a buck like that and then keep the pic to yourself. Fitz doesn't this call for a couple day vacation
He's not 'that' special, especially compared to many of yours like Rocky. His split drop is teeny, like 5" long with a little split on the end that barely score-able as a point. He's also lop-sided, the side opposite the drop tine, his left G3 is about five inches longer than his right side G3 and his left G4 is kind of silly looking because the main portion of it matches his right G4 but it's split and the split tine is as long as the rest of his left main beam so it gives the impression that his left main beam is asymmetrical but the actual main beam matches his right side perfectly much like last year. He's not that special compared to many posted here before, I don't mean to over-hype what he really is just because I've held his pic out. He's really neat but it's not like he's a 200"er, I don't know what he'll score but his net probably isn't going to be all that great being lop-sided like he is. I'm not sure he'll net a lot more than he was last year. I think he'll gross about 25" better but his character makes him cooler than last year. (maybe)
No I was saying it, because there was only one pic from last year in your top 10 Some nice deer you have there though!
Thanks, haha yeah, well technically there are two bucks in there from 2014 but one is dated 2012 (date is just wrong) but no one knew that but me. Yeah I knew you were saying that jokingly, it's good. I kid you about your monsters all the time, turn about is fair play. Truth is I hate that I committed to holding back pics of that buck but since I did commit to it I am trying to see it through. If I show them and I don't get him (and someone else does) I'll be kicking my own posterior for years. I just had a thought after you said that...that if I wasn't careful everyone may think he's some great beast of epic proportion then if I get him expectations would be so high everyone may think he's completely meh because of some false expectations from the drama centered around me keeping the pics back. He's a great deer probably on par with OMG but most of what makes him really special to me is the history I have with him. When I get to show him folks are going to wonder what all the hype was about. Cause yours (Rocky) and several others (Anthony Zink, etal) posted are bigger bucks than this one.
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