Been seeing any racks???
 

Has anyone been seeing any bucks with racks? I haven't been back to my hunting spots to scout them out. My buddy has some good footage of a nice buck with about a 10" droptine already and about the same for browtines. But his main-beams are just starting to curl forward. Anxious to see what he grows up to be.

He has about 10 pictures of this buck(game-cam) from last year when it had about a 10" droptine, looks to be even bigger this year, maybe pushing B&C. Hopefully my buddy can tag him with the bow this year. Anybody been seeing any other nice bucks?

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I've seen a couple so far this year. The racks aren't that big here yet so they tend to hide behind the ears and are difficult to see without binos. I saw a nice bull moose a couple of weeks ago that had better than a foot on each side of his head.

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:):) I've seen a couple mossies so far but I always carry my binocs. It sure helps this time of year. When they are just starting to sprout a new battle gear it's hard for my eyes to pick up without my 2nd. specs.. Sure is fun to see them early on in the new cycle. I find myself paying real particular attention to the entire buck. Once I get to really observe the entire animal it helps me later to differentiate how a particular buck is forming up, so to speak.

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i have not yet, but have heard others have been seeing them

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Saw "Elvis" the other day from about 1/4 mile away. He was bedded down in an open field. I could see from that far that he already had a nice large rack in velvet - binoculars verified this. His name is Elvis because he is the King around my parts. Can't wait to meet up with him again this year.

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Friday night I saw a 8 pointer with 6 inch brow tines and 8 inch g2s , I saw this deer last fall and it was the tallest rack I have ever seen on hoof. Lst year it was at least 150 class, hope I can hunt him this year.;)

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Got an unseasonable brief rain here in norther california yesterday so decided to take a ride up on the ranch to see what I could see. 8 bucks out moving around, 1 4x4, a good 3x3, and 6 3x2 's or forked horns. One of the forkies dwarfed the 4x4 and 3x3 with a 21-22 " wide rack and very tall. Our archery season opens up on July 10th, and I am anxiously marking the days off on the calendar.

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Yeah, I was in the French Quarter last night and saw a lot of fine racks flashing,oh shoot sorry wrong board.:D

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Driving home tonight I saw 6 bucks sporting very respectable racks for this time of year. One was a nice 5 pointer, two 6 pointers that were out to their ears and a beauty of an 8 pointer.

The 8 pointer was past his ears and beginning to curl. His brow tines were as high as his G2s and they were at least 6 inches high. To top it off, this big 8 pointer was VERY symetrical.

All of them were within 50 yards, so 8 x 56 Steiners gave me a tremendous view.;)

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I see deer here just about every day living in the kootenai national forest. Yesterday at dark- thirty, 4 bucks came in feeding around the kabin here, No Does were with them and I watched them for 45 minutes as one of them had a bad gimp. 3 of the deer had forks and the other had 3pts on each side and getting ready to branch out another.
I don't shoot deer here on my own property b/c I kinda think of it as my refrigerator. Never know when I might need to use it when the winters get rough. I do have a couple stands on each corner of my property facing forestry where I might put guest to hunt in or just observe wildlife. Bobby

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Saw four bucks last night with 6-8 inch spikes.

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Just the wifes. I've seen some bucks but small growth so far.

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2 or 3 weeks ago i saw a group of 3 bucks, one is huge bodied. rack was just outside the ears. i havent been back looking for him yet though. when he walks he's showing dew claws and his hoof is 2.75-3" long. so he's a big boy, probably B&C material. Typical rack if he doenst injure himself. a bunch of medium size bucks this year, a few that will be P&Y class low 120's. ill have to get out next week after work and take a look at him some more.

slayer

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Last Friday evening I saw a group of 6 deer in an alfalfa field. Five of them were bucks, of which two are going to be very nice. It's encouraging to see.

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15 different bucks as of tonights scouting. Several younger bucks, 1.5 and 2.5s. A couple really good looking older bucks. The largest being 2 to 3 inches past his ears and growing candle sticks on his g1s and g2s...hasnt curled around yet. Hes a wide fella. I have 8 of the 15 on video thus far. 5 bull elk as of tonights scout as well. 2 on video. 1 really nice looking bull.

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Yep, since it's warmed up around here, the gals are wearing next to nothin.

Now if your talking about deer, well I've seen some of them too. All still in velvet of course.

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3 bucks with clearly visiable racks jumped in front of my truck last week. One was a NICE 8pointer already. The other two where small 4's or 6's

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I havnt went out scouting yet but did see a small buck this morning on my way to work he wasnt very big

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Hi KSHunter,
I emailed you, I seen one Albino and several nice racked bucks recently. We film them all summer for our video's. Here is the footage from last night. I took still shots out of the video footage.
http://bloodbro.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=66