Brett/IL

Jenna-Hope one of those big boys comes by and gives you a shot.

I posted this in the bowhunting forum, but thought I would throw it up here as well. We found this one dead on our lease yesterday. These dry/hot conditions are sure taking their toll. It's cooler today and we are supposed to get rain the rest of the week, we need it!

KYDeerHunter03

That is a shame about that buck. I have been seeing a lot of skinny unhealthy looking deer and I hope we get some rain soon. If we end up having a hard winter I think a lot of animals are gonna die. They just dont seem like they have had the right amount of nutrients they needed to store up fat for the winter. This drought is killing everything!

treehunter

My dad and cousin said they have been seeing all kinds of deer lately. Hopefully the dry conditions havent hurt things too much but it sounds like it has. I hate to hear that.

5575gb

Man I just had typed a nice long play by play of the season so far and the site lost its marbles or something!
Anyhow so far I've had shots at about 12 bucks with 4-5 in that 135-145 mark. I'm after a very large buck that should go 165-175 but he got big for a reason and I'm haveing one heck of a time patterning him!
I got this guy on camera yesterday so I knelt in an ant pile up by that brush in the upper right for two hours till first light this morning and then he and 4 does and two smaller bucks walked on thru. It felt good to hunt on the ground one on one again, haven't done that for a while! But the ants drove me nuts crawling all over me but at least they didn't bite!
I hope he can make it another year or two, he's got allot of potential. Maybe his daddy will show up soon!
Almost got me an antelope this morning thou, got to within 65 yds and he busted me. I swear they have eyes in the back of their heads!!

Good luck team!

peakrut

Sweet go get him man

Brett/IL

That's awesome! I hope you connect.

treehunter

Thats a big'un. Looking at these pics of the bucks everyone is getting on camera, looks like we will have a good season if everyone can connect. I'm really looking forward to it.

peakrut

Going to check cams shortly be back in a few hours to post.

5575gb

This is kind of cool, I have my son hunting this high racked buck, the other evening he came through but it was to dark for a shot.
He told me last night that he thought it was the buck he had passed up last year so I got some photos out. What do you guys think, I say it's the same deer. Here he is in 05,06 and 07 "bottom photo".

gutshot

Jenna Congrats on the turkey. Now get out there and get us on the bone board.