Is this the same buck? NEW STEALTH CAM PICS!!!!
 

Hey guys,

I checked the Stealth cam on my property today and it was at 17 pictures so I decided to take it down. Season is getting close and I don' t want to mess up that area as it is where I got the pictures of the 12 point. Well, I got the film developed and for the first time, I got mostly doe pictures. I did get a cool picture of a raccoon hanging in a tree and a fox walking in the background. I did get a few small bucks, but, I also got this picture.

This buck looks like the one that I got on camera last week, but, this one appears to be only an 11 point and the other is a 12 point. My dad thinks that they are the same deer as the character is practically identical. I just wanted to see what you guys thought?

Here is the buck from tonight.........



And here is the one from last week..........

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same

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looks like the same deer BUT loook at the g4 on the right main beam, looks different in the two ics, may be just the angle or its another buck, left side looks to be missing a tine this week. I dont know, looks to be 2 seperate but related bucks.

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same deer

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I' d say same deer!

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Yep........same buck.

I hope for your sake he isn' t totally nocturnal already. I do know that if I was hunting your areas I think would rather go without a buck for this season than take anything less than those 2 big ones you showed us. I' d be living in a tree for the first 2 weeks of November I can tell ya that much.

Good luck Jason I hope you nail one of em' !

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they look identical to me.....even the number of points i get....i like his rack...all he lacks is mass but heck...this is PA not sascatewan...thats a REALLY good PA buck.....i cant wait to see him upclose in a pic from all the angles....hesa beaut....good luck on getting that guy......

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Thanks guy,

I just took that picture and scanned it at 4800 dpi and I could see that he is the same buck. He is angled perfectly to hide his other point. Ath 4800 dpi, I could see the tip of it sticking out behind his other point! He just looks different in the picture, due to his different angle!

Matt,

I am hoping that he isn' t noc-turnal. His first picture was at 11:50 P.M. and the second one was at 8:28 P.M., plus, I have seen this buck twice in the day, and both times he was bedded in the same funnel area as these pics were taken! The other two pics I have of him were at 4:02 a.m. and 9:32 a.m. So, one out of the 4, he was in legal shooting light!

When I went and got my camera, I looked around and found the perfect tree for my climber. The trail that leads from this camera goes down the edge of the woods and goes into a clearing, which, the tree I will be in is at the edge of. I think that this is the trail that the buck uses as it is a heavily used rub-line, practically every tree is rubbed. If he follows that trail, he would walk out into the clearing and give me a perfect 18 yards broadside shot straight in front of me. To my left is where that trail branches off and goes behind that tree, if he were to walk there, he would give me a 22 yard shot!

The big 11 point pics were both at night. I probablly won' t hunt that buck as much as this one. That one is on the land behind my best friends house, and he will probablly hunt that buck. He has never shot a big buck, actually, the past two or three years, he has passed up more small to medium size bucks than any one person should, just waiting for a big boy. So, as it is now, I will be focusing on the 12 point in the pics above, and he will be focusing on that big 11 point.

Friday, I will be checking the camera that is located where that huge 11 point is running around. I am REALLY anxious to see what all passed by that camera.

Friday, I will be taking that camera down though. Since these two areas are going to be the main focus areas for our hunting, we don' t want anything to disturb the deers habits. But, on a good note, I will not be leaving the cameras down. I have another area that might just be good and I will be setting both cameras up in that area. The cameras will be in the middle of the woods, located about 225 yards apart. One camera will be on a trail that is a heavy rub-line. I havn' t seen it this year, but, in all the past years that I have been hunting, this trails has been littered with rubs. The other is on a hillside above a thick creek bottom. The hill-side is a bunch of scattered oak trees and is always a good scrape area. So, the pictures won' t stop comming :D

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Yeah it' s gotta be the same deer.................but.........geez there are some differences that I can' t tell if they are just angles.
If it IS the same deer then the left G4 is either EXACTLY in line with the G3 or it' s GONE?
But the splits on the back tines match up?Even the body looks the same.

You should have set that camera to take a pic every 10 seconds........we could have made him a Star! Or blind from the flash one of the two!:D

The more I look at it Jason......I' m not really SURE anymore?

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I am certain there difrent deer.

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Matt,

Yeah, when I looked at it at 4800 dpi, which makes the picture about real life size :D, it looks like the G-3 and G-4 are perfectly lined up. If you look closely in the top picture at the G-3 (straight across from the split on the G-2), you can just barely see a little nub. When the picture is blown up, you can see a darker line between that nub and the G-3. It leads me to believe that it is another point as it would just blend together.

If it isn' t the same buck, then those two have to be brothers, and that would mean I would have a better chance at putting an arrow through a nice PA buck this year.

I will be putting all my time in on that buck. Well, unless a bigger one walks by :D I have seen WAY WAY WAY too many big bucks this year to shoot a small one. The amount of nice young bucks is incredible. I have seen so many nice basket rack 8 points that are young deer. These bucks are gonna be nice next year. Alot of people said that the signs of antler restrictions wouldn' t show up for a few years, but, after just one year, I am seeing the results :D

Oct. 4th can' t come soon enough. It is so close now that I can taste it. :D I am hoping we have a nice cool morning, a light frost on the ground (wishful thinking), partly cloudy sky, and a west wind at about 4-6 mph, with a front moving in on the 5th. I know, I know, wishful thinking, but it could happen :D

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BM, you sure are getting some good pictures with your camera! I think it is the same buck.

I know you don`t want to hear this, but here goes.......I hope you don`t get him!

I really think that buck is only 2 1/2 years old. He will be approaching JUMBO status next year. Then I hope you get him. Unless you could hold out for one more year![:o]

From 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 is the biggest jump in rack size ya know. 18-21% more horn from 3 1/2 to 4 1/2.

Anyway, good luck, and maybe this winter you can make it to some of our indoor 3-d shoots. Me and BTBowhunter could show you some NEW, fresh racks from Pike Co.!:D

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It does look like the same deer to me as well though I am no expert on such things. :)

It looks like you have some really good spots to hunt this year BM. I am jealous...:D

On a related note, I took my cam down yesterday afternoon and had seven pictures to get developed. More buck pics and not of the same deer as before. I will try to post them soon.

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Same Deer if you ask me.

I would take that camera down and put it away for good:D

Your gonna get busted before the season even starts:D

Sometimes to much of a good thing......................................:)

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Same buck and we expect to see him with your bow across his chest!;)

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no picture of the coon???

oh, and that is the same deer...of course you have alredy admitted that though. so.....the pic of the coon...

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looks like the same buck to me !

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same deer!:)