It's about that time of year.  A fellow from Kansas posted a pic. of a great buck completely out of velvet on aug. 28th over on the other site.  Anyone else get any yet?  I don't use trail cameras much.  I own 1 and it is in a very likely spot in the famed Pike County Illinois and has been for going on 3 weeks.  The anticipation is killing me.  Hoping to get a pic of a buck coming out of velvet.

No hard horns here in NY yet.  Joe

A friend in WY saw two hard horned bucks last weekend, but no photo of them yet. Both appeared to be adult 4.5 year olds,

Sunday the 29th,I saw a big whitetail from the antelope blind that had shed plus all his red summer hair was gone.He was stone gray in color.The other bucks with him still had velvet and summer hair.

Still in velvet here as well.

Anytime is right and I hope to have some picks this weekend of some.

For the last three years all the bucks we have been watching and taking picks of have shed in the first 10 days Of September.

Tracy

I saw one last week and one this Monday that had shed.  I would guess they were both 2 1/2 year olds.  Does and fawns around the house haven't shed their summer coats yet though.  No pics though as I am too cheap to buy trail cameras.

I had my first hard horn buck pics last week. So far 3 total. Also, one that I have a picture of was working a mock scrape I made (he was the first to hit it).

Hunting season is almost here!

Blacktails around here still have velvet, atleast the few I have seen, but the elk are rubbing and I have seen several branch antlered bulls with full hard horns. A few spike bulls still have velvet as they tend to shed a bit later.

Southwest Ohio still velvet as of last weekend...

This little guy has just lost his velvet; taken two days ago.

many pics last week of PA bucks shed, probably about half of them that I got pics of were shed.

Maybe you guys are right and it's going to be a early fall, This guy is about 3 or 4 days early!!    





But not this guy!! Same spot and cam   :eek:  



He is showing signs of drying up though.



See how dry it looks!! I sure look forward to seeing him after he sheds.



Tracy

Some hard horned here in Mich. as of 5 days ago.

Saw the first one here on August 28.

I got one about a week ago. None of the other yet though.

I saw several over a week ago in hard horn here in NY. Most have shed now, very few in velvet! Shawn

K.S. Trapper,

I hope to see him again after you shoot him...nice buck

This was last night in Pa.

Been getting hard horns on the camera since Aug. 27th.  Usually it's a little later than that for me.