Terry, is that picture for real? An amazing shot if it is. These days it's so hard to tell. I was curious about what seems to be corn on the pig's back and in the air.

Jaw dropper of a blacktail...

As far as I know it is real Don....and he'd definitely under a feeder.

Bill, that boy looks love sick!  

My friend Todd (birdbow on here) emailed these pics from his camera. They are 12 yards from his stand. Now he just needs to get the AM/PM thing reversed. First, the eight pointer.



Now the 10.

Bill

I keep staring at that stick, but I can't see what is so interesting...however, I'll buy it!

R

Wow! That blacktail is the real mack daddy around those woods I'll bet. Looks like he's headed out to see the ladies.

here is one of the brutes I've been chasing all fall, too bad I was sitting some where else that day  

Ryan: I think Todd uses some sort of urine or attractant. I am not totally sure but he told be a while back he gets estrous doe pee from some deer farm/scent maker???? Really don't remember where he said he got it but the name was not familiar to me. Definitely not one of the brand names. If I am not mistaken he previously had a mock scrape right there where his camera is pointed.

Got a pic of this guy the other day. Best one I've seen in a few years.

Nice looking buck there Chris.  Looks like he has company in the back ground.  Hope you get a shot at him how has your season been thus far.  Joe

Ryan: I checked with Todd last night. He had made a mock scrape there a while back with regular doe pee from Timber Valley scents (tvfreschscents.com). He told me he has pics of 10 different bucks doing the same thing as in these pics. However, NH is big woods and these deer have lots of room to roam and are very difficult to pattern.

This treated 4x4 post has been getting a workout the last couple weeks. I had a trailcam on it for a week to see what the culprits looked like. There were quite a few more, so I hi-graded a few to post.

I spent a lot of my career working with wood preservatives. I'd sure like to know what that post is treated with! Any idea, tree killer??

While working as Development Manager for a wood protection company, we put out stake tests at a university to test new preservative formulations. Deer ate one of them, but ignored the others. The one they ate had lots of salt in it, but to my knowledge there are no commercial formulations like that because of corrosion problems that would require a stainless steel plant, which is too expensive to be practical.

Tree Killer,
Those pic`s are awesome!  

Don...I don't know what they're treated with, but it has a slightly oily odor. Bucks rub on these posts every year, but I wasn't sure if one particular buck laid claim to it or if multiple bucks were using it as a community rub. Some of my questions have been answered.

Thanks buck-eye!

Here's a few more of the road signs that have been ground on by bucks over the years.

Looks like pentachlorophenol carried in a heavy hydrocarbon solvent, i.e. #4 diesel fuel. That's the most common formulation on the "Left Coast", and it has that smell. Back east, #2 diesel is a more common solvent, and I don't think the bucks like it as well.

Wait 'till the buck lure people hear about this!

If you shoot one of those bucks, don't smoke around his head!

YA GOT ANY BEAVER IN THE AREA  :p