A big Congrats BH( on the one that didnt get away) Nice picts.
I dont go to that many forums myself( use to go much more to others first few yrs here)
Looks like that first guy spotted the camara...( was thinking of getting one of those for the house) ( when they take a pic they dont flash right?)
Saw a large group of deer outback yesterday morn( a lot of mulies,WT, lopes etc at times very closeby)
Not a lot of woods real nearby here(to my house) but a lot of open area
( i get to missing the heavy woods , timbers sometimes)
( these ones where checking out my house & backyard- i think there up to something
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Wow Knightia, very cool pictures. Alot of big woods around me in Michigan.
There are two different types of camera. The pictures I posted are with a camera that has a flash, very simliar to a point and shoot handheld digital camera. I personally think the deer do notice the camera and it does have an affect on them. I don't have the money right now for the second option.
The other option are the newer infrared models in which there is not flash, it simply shoots an infrared (nearly) invisible red beam and is able to retrieve high quality pictures. I don't have any pictures from that camera on this computer, but they are also of good quality.
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Thanks much BH & for the info on the camaras also- dont know much about those things - i will check into those infared models.
Dont have many picts on this pc as its pretty new.
The trees grow strange in this part of Wy- heavy pines spruce forest higher up( like the low 8000 +ft mtns behind my house in the pics below( snowpack/ moisture)- not to many in that pict though its to steep in that spot & a forest fire got a lot a trees that where in that area of the mtn behind my house a few yrs back( but on top theres a bit still).
And lower where theres moisture( pretty dry here red deserts down the road just a bit)- in the stream beds( those in the one pict i think ( seasonal stream) gullys areas other type trees grow ok .
A short distance away in diffent direction *& elevation- redrock canyons ridges junipers etc( no shortage of rock, dust etc here in this part of wy at all)
Not a very good pict of these deer here blurry etc( pict taken thew back windows)- but they where looking for greener grass( dont think they found much) over my septic system i think( they lika my tomatos to) - ya want to grow something non native to here it needs a lot of added water(and care)( desert like in the summer,cold in the winter) in this part of Wy.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.-- Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 18)
Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~Will Rogers
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
"Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's 'bold new imaginative program' with its proper age?" "Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago.
There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother to us all. R.Reagan-1960
Nice dude! I also hope you get a shot at that first buck, whether with the bow or the rifle! Our season (rifle) opens next weekend. Doubt I will get a chance to go until I go home for Thanksgiving. I don't have anywhere to hunt in North AL.
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The night picture was last year, the day picture is the same deer this year. A little longer, a little thicker, but not by much. He's a 3.5-4.5 year old deer and I don't want to take him before his prime, but I'm thinking if he has only gotten marginally larger, maybe I should....not sure. Our heavy drought this year prolly affected his antler growth, but I dont know. Hopefully he pushes a doe my way and I don't have to worry about debating that subject and I can fill the freezer with doe.
Would ya'll take him given the oppurtunity, or let him slide in hopes he gets larger? I highly doubt he will get larger, but I hate to take him before he has had a chance to fully mature.
I'm not sure about antler growth in your area of Texas, or Texas in general. I would take this deer in a majority of my hunting locations because it would be a pretty decent rack for the properties I have. Very interesting how little antler growth he had in a year.
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