Slow growing Iowa Bucks? Whats up with that?
 

I've just been doing some comparisons of my bucks to your guys bucks. It seems that all my bucks are still on the first stages of their growth. Many still only have the little nubsof velvet. Few are starting to form the brow tines.
I have no doubt that they will start growing big time later on but are you Iowa folks like this also?

If you have any Iowa pictures post them up! :D

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i thought the same thing when i saw your pics i thought they grew quicker than that in iowa

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Some of the bucks shedded their antlers a little late so that might have something to do with it.

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I am from northern Iowa, and we have got some bucks with 10 inch tines already. The rest have grown at least grown 12" beams.

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Will you adopt me?!?!?

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and me? :D

what are you feeding them?

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pope i think it has to do with like how much nutrients they get. do you have any mineral sites

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No I have nothing out. Never have, but we still mangage to see and harvest great deer every year. Our deer have just been feeding on the alfalfa fields, corn, and bean fields.

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Every individual buck is different. Look at me, Freak Daddy had 10 inch main beams in early May, while some of my bucks still have just 2-3 inches of antler now in June. All that matters is what they look like in October.

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Yes I guess that is true, but all my bucks are about the same. They must all be related. ;)

And Siman, you can't bring freak daddy into this conversation because he's a freak. [:'(]Just teasing.

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Touche'

I wish he would show up on camera again

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Does your friend have out his camera yet? Maybe Freak Daddy just came over to your place for a quick visit. Id guess he would be over at your friend's.

Dont you just wish you had more cameras so you can go to yourfriends and your place? lol

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It sucks only having 2...and my stealth hasnt been in the woods for 2 weeks....

I may be getting another one soon, and i know my brother wants to get a cuddeback

Ive been telling my buddy to get his cam out, but they havnt got around to it yet

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Pope dont worry about it! I think my bucks are a little behind schedule aswell this year but even so I know from experience that their antlers will be almost fully grown by the end of the first week of July:)Pike

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J Pike, I have no doubt that they will grow into something special sooner or later. Im not likingthe pictures of the small velvet bucks and patients is wearing down on me. But I guess Ill have to deal with it. lol Its going to be a painful summer. :(

Siman, remember how I said I was gonna buy a cuddeback the first of july. Well its getting pushedback now. :( Im buying a new video camera first. I need it more than the cuddeback so I guess ill have to add the cuddeback to the christmas list. Maybe ill have it by late season.
Why haven't you had your stealth in? No batteries?

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Hopefully in a couple of weeks I'll take the pictures off my Trophy cam, and I will better know how big the bucks are up here.

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Im sorry but how on Earth can you guys wait so long to check your cameras. It must be very very hard for you guys. Im out at the cabin every weekend so all I have to do is walk 400-500 yards to check my cameras but even though they are still so close I still need to check them often.
In fact, im going out this weekend for my brothers birthday party. Hes having some friends over and they are going to stay at the cabin.

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Pope ever hear the story about the old bull and young bull standing on top of a hill over looking a herd of cows?:DPike

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If he has not he will soon.:D

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I remember a time when i use to be like that. Patience grasshopper!

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No, unless your talking about that commercial where those two bulls are checking out the cows and they talk in a brittish accident...

:D leadoperator, patience isn't my game. Unless im hunting then its a differant story. But with cameras its not. Its not easy having your camera 400 yards from you and NOT checking it. Maybe I should put a electric shock collar around my wrist so when I go to reach for the trail camera I get zapped. Im sure that would stop me. Actually I dont think it would. [&:]

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Pope I feel the same way as you, I can never wait to go check my cameras and mine are also close so I am always anxious to do so and end up checking them every 5 or 6 days even though I would like it to be every two weeks.

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http://forums.bowhunting.com/yaf_postst4381_Possible-Hercules-sighting-and-another-monster.aspx [8D]It would be sweet if these are slow growing. I cant wait to see what happens when they grow fast.;)

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Anybody else notice a pattern here.

Blessings.....Pastorjim

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:D

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Yes, I do he is in the middle stages an its horrible when it strikes the young want be long an he will be ina tree stand just towatch the camera to see if it goes off. Then with his dissatifaction an lack of pictures. He will be finding some way to get another camera, an another camera.

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I don't have a lot of growth on the bucks that I have pics of either so don't feel like the Lone Ranger. :D I know there are some dandy bucks in my area, I just can't wait till the apples start dropping because that's when the big boys come. I need to find a good hay field the boys are visiting and hang my camera there.

RE: Slow groing Iowa Bucks? Whats up with that?
 

I don't have a lot of growth on the bucks that I have pics of either so don't feel like the Lone Ranger. :D I know there are some dandy bucks in my area, I just can't wait till the apples start dropping because that's when the big boys come. I need to find a good hay field the boys are visiting and hang my camera there.

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You got two posts there. :D

Well as you can tell from my Unibrow buck, im no longer apart of the slow growing club.
Do the apples really work? I thought about planting some apple trees in our timber but im afraid I would have to put fence around it because of the cattle.

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Sorry about the (2) post, my PC has a mind of its own sometimes.
Here is the proof that apples work on my property.

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heres a pic from the first week of april. Started growing early in my area. Its been a couple months now and I cant wait to see how hes progressed. Just put my cams back out the other day.