Wisconsin scouting... Hard antlers
09-03-2006, 01:30 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: S.E. Wisconsin
Posts: 148
Wisconsin scouting... Hard antlers
Finally got the new camera fired up. And got Junior to set up a system on the computor for me to download pictures from video footage. We have been out scouting and shining... I keep most of my foot scouting to the food sources and figure out were the bucks are feeding and once I find that out its pretty easy for me to figure out where they are bedding. We found the reason for the lack of activity in the fields latly to be the acorns in the woods... There are alot more white oaks dropping this year than expected, and some heavy deer sign up on the oak ridges...
1st rub of the year was up in those white oaks too.I checked it out while I enjoyed some wild grapes...
We did some cruising around the public marshs with the spotlight and camera last night and saw the same 3 year old 8 point we have been seeing every night, but now with a new set of hard antlers... We have also been seeing a 160 class 10 point hanging in the same field, the 10 is a little camera shy, but I was able to get a little video of him in the infra-red mode but the pics turned out black, they seem to all darken up a bit when I transpher them. I also went looking for a definate booner I seen the night before with a mission to get him on film. He was out and I was shocked to see he was with another monster that also has to be close to B&C Again, no picks, but I will work on it again tonight. They were just out of camera / spotlight range. But I was able to lock onto the 8 point a 3 year old, nothing huge, but, here is a pick...
1st rub of the year was up in those white oaks too.I checked it out while I enjoyed some wild grapes...
We did some cruising around the public marshs with the spotlight and camera last night and saw the same 3 year old 8 point we have been seeing every night, but now with a new set of hard antlers... We have also been seeing a 160 class 10 point hanging in the same field, the 10 is a little camera shy, but I was able to get a little video of him in the infra-red mode but the pics turned out black, they seem to all darken up a bit when I transpher them. I also went looking for a definate booner I seen the night before with a mission to get him on film. He was out and I was shocked to see he was with another monster that also has to be close to B&C Again, no picks, but I will work on it again tonight. They were just out of camera / spotlight range. But I was able to lock onto the 8 point a 3 year old, nothing huge, but, here is a pick...
09-07-2006, 07:46 AM
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Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Nekoosa Wi USA
Posts: 6,066
RE: Wisconsin scouting... Hard antlers
seems a bit early to be finding rubs on the trees, I looked along some pretty heavy run aways and just off the sides and havent found any rubs at all, i think you have a hungry critter lol.
