2010 Trail Cam Pics Thread

[Mike Gerardi]

Beauty of a buck Djanko!!

[SEMO_HUNTER]

Wow, that is a pig Djanko!
Man, he's got some odd points goin on!
Me likey!  

[wapiti792]

I think I like this buck...this scrape is 100 yards from my barn. I have 8 different bucks on trail cam but he's the best. I doctored this scrape with Smokies.

[steadman]

Looks like a great buck for Ms. Hope there Michael! Good luck!

[K.S.TRAPPER]

He's a dandy Michael hope you get him buddy!!    









Tracy

[Tree Killer]

Lots of great pics you guys have been getting!

After having major health issues back in August, my trailcams held down a shelf for several months. I finally put one of my cams back up last week on the rubbing post I used last year. Got some good bucks coming in to the post, but the camera appears to be taking a dump as the photo quality turned to crap!    :(

[steadman]

Good to see ya back Ron. That is a stud of a buck     :eek:

[Bobhat]

This thread is definately hunter porn.      

[pintail_drake2004]

Pulled one of my cameras today and was not suprised to see 720 photos in 4 weeks. However, I did not see the quality of the whitetails like I was expecting due to (imho) disease, drought, hunting pressure. Of the total pictures, 506 contained clear photos of whitetails.
Several 1.5 and 2.5 yo bucks and just a few does made up the majority of the photographs. We only found 2 possible shooter bucks in the whole lot.
This 3yo 9pt:

and this 8pt with a kicker:
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Earlier this bow season, I got a call from my taxidermist saying that a large buck from our farm had been killed on the road. He asked if i had any photos of a 8pt drop tine. When i showed him the pictures, he confirmed that it was the buck and my heart broke. I have been watching this buck all year and had my heart set on him. A terrible way to go being hit by a truck. In this photo he is only 50 yds from my blind:


Also on my camera today I found a small buck, who had damaged his antlers while in velvet. It produced some unique characteristics:


And, the best photos of all for this year was this, that same funky antlered buck fighting a 3pt...I captured a whole series of photos covering the fight, the moment of pause, and resuming the fight:

[elkken]

Welcome back Treekiller ... I have missed your great pictures, hope all is going well with your health.

Your Blacktail deer are just awsome ....

[SEMO_HUNTER]

Originally posted by xtrema312:
This is 10 acres.  It is on a 5 lane road with fully developed commercial property on the other side of the road.  On one side of this property is a ROW to 10 acres of over grown field behind this.  Next to the ROW is an industrial building.  The other side of the property is an over grown 15 acres.  All three properties are commercial and all for sale.  The bad economy is keeping it huntable for now.  They are all tied in with little strips of cover around developments and eventually a no hunting zone one way that is in town.  The other way leads to more industrial and housing plats here and there.  Believe it or not this scrape cluster is only about 40 yd. from the back of the garage that sets out back of the office building.  I used to work there and it is owned by my old boss.

It is not a travel route or a major food source.  It has good heavy cover that holds a couple does.  It took me a few years to figure out how to work it.  Leave the does alone until the end of October and then get in for about four or five hunts and hope for the best.  I see one decent 8 a year here and four years ago I saw a nice 10 I almost got, but he didn't give the a good shot angle until too far out.  I love this little honey hole.  If this was not high priced commercial property I would try and buy up the three parcels.  They have great cover and potential.  The only problem is most of the year there are only a couple does around and maybe a buck hanging out.  Late season I almost never see a deer on the property.  If I hunt it before the end of October I will push the few does out and the buck don't show much if that happens.  I have two stands and have to watch the wind and only hunt mornings to make this place work.  It is a fun spot, but real tricky.  Most of these bucks will never be there in the day light.  They will he holed up in someone's back yard or in some heavy cover out back of a factory or store someplace.  You never know when one could get caught with one of the does on the property in day light so I keep my hopes up.

It never ceases to amaze me how things can go from bad/depressed to excitement/happy endings in the blink of an eye, that's what keeps me going back again and again. Persistence pays off eventually. Nice find on that secluded honey hole, and if I were you I would keep it all to myself and hope it never sells. Little spots like that can produce big rewards and it sounds like you have a smart way of approaching it, that's just plain good sense, congrats on your bowkill too bad you didn't tag out.....that would have been an awesome morning indeed!
It just goes to show that you don't need 500-1,000 acres to have good hunting success, but sometimes you may need to settle for less and it doesn't take away from the experience in the least. I live on 20 acres of mostly pasture with some wooded draws and cedar trees, and deer country it is not, but that doesn't keep me from planting a 1/2 acre food plot every year, and every year I see deer. If you plant it.....they will come.  

[K.S.TRAPPER]

     Yeah! Ron's back missed ya buddy, Great picks as always.

Tracy

[wapiti792]

Welcome back Treekilla! I have missed those blacktail pics...here's a few whitetails around the house over a scrape doctored with Smokies.

[slivrslingr]

TreeKiller-Love the BT pics, glad you're back on your feet!

[Tree Killer]

Thanks for the welcome back's guys, appreciate it!

Apparently my trailcams didn't care for the time off, one is shooting crappy pics and the other won't even take a photo!    

[SEMO_HUNTER]

Originally posted by Tree Killer:
Thanks for the welcome back's guys, appreciate it!

Apparently my trailcams didn't care for the time off, one is shooting crappy pics and the other won't even take a photo!        

Doesn't Cuddeback have a lifetime warranty?
As expensive as they are.......they dang well should. While on that subject, don't buy Nikon range finders or binos because they don't warranty anything with electronic components.....but I do love their scopes.

[wapiti792]

I am using a $100 Tasco that is small, cheap but takes as good a pics as any I have. I just ordered 3 more to add to the herd.

[Don Stokes]

Don't buy Nikon binos? That's all I use, and I've been satisfied with them for decades. None of mine have any electronic components, but it doesn't matter anyhow because they have always performed to my expectations.

[K.S.TRAPPER]

Tracy

[Mechslasher]

hunting at the wrong time and in the wrong place this day.