Originally Posted by
Bocajnala
That big seven is a great looking deer
Do you hunt on your homestead property? Good bucks for next year
-Jake
Yes I do. I only have 91 acres so not much control over what happens to the local deer herd. I just happen to have some good travel lanes between river bottom bedding and ridgetop ag fields. Some of the neighbors lease their fields to a local farmer and he has yet to harvest corn that was planted last summer. Crazy but good for the local wildlife. Lots of both red and white oak acorns last fall as well.
That big seven doesn't look quite as impressive from the side. His rack is not very deep at all and looks like a big fork horn from the side. I haven't seen any trail cam photos of him since about the middle of the regular firearms season but I also never heard of anyone getting him either. He was pretty nocturnal by that time.
The wide eight is one of the bucks that I know for sure survived all of the recent hunting seasons. I've been watching him for at least two years. The last photos I have of him with his antlers were taken on the night of 2/6/24 when he followed two does across my gas well road.