Steuben Jerry

If bumped in the morning, I go right back in the afternoon.

Due to the layout of our property I spook deer 100% of the time getting back to the house from most of our stands. The deer get over it quickly enough.

Seems like peak activity here was around 11/16. If the next peak is 28 days later it bodes well for Muzzleloader season. Hope so!

Same here. This pic of the built-in was from this fall. No leaves at all this year, and the bottom is hollow with something living in it now. I did sit in it 5-6 times this year but felt risky. It’s been a lucky spot. I want reparations from China for all my ash trees!

Not pushing buttons, serious question; I understand you’re not allowing joke memes on this thread. But are you not allowing joke meme threads at all? Or no joke meme posting at all? I play by the rules, just want to be sure of them.

I see what you’re saying now. I got up way too early this morning for no reason so I looked at tcam photos taken since July. I have several photos since then of this shorter tined buck with the left nub. I was thinking same buck, but it looks like the one I killed just showed up here the week before the rifle opener. Maybe I’ll see “nubby” during muzzleloader season and I can get a shot at my buck’s nub-brother.

I do have this one that has the stunted tine and the G2’s and 3s look shorter in this pose. That nub seems to be a match though. Maybe this deer is the same as the velvet pic and the nub is just an odd coincidence?

I’ve got about 1000 pics I saved this year, and a half dozen cards still to pull that were soaking since early October. I’ll look and see if I can other pics with a stunted left brow tine.

I kinda think that too. But that left nub? The same shape too. Bucks on cam here peeled mid September.

Same buck. Has the stunted left brow tine. No other bucks on cam has that like that. I don’t think his tines were done growing.

Update, I gave it most of a week. Freakin delicious! I’ll do this every year.

Haha, hers is going to NJ as a euro.

Congratulations Four Seasons!

Happy Birthday!

I was going through trail cam pics looking for pics of the bucks that were taken here since the rifle opener. I came across this one from August of my and my daughter’s buck hanging around together. Well, they still were hanging around together this week too, but it was in our garage. Nice that they each had an identifying characteristic. Cool pic to re-discover! I pulled a couple cards on the way out from getting her buck, and found a sequence of 10 pics of the buck I shot, less then 24 hrs from when I harvested him. He was following a group of does that were in front of the cam seconds before. I like his stature in this pic, he looks “tanky”.

Congrats Cynthia!

What a great story!

Daughter’s buck; Stephanie got in the same stand that we got two bucks from already. She had some quick activity in the field with the same does and spikes that we’ve been seeing. She had one group of does at 150 yds that were hanging around feeding for about 15 minutes when this guy stepped out at the far tree line. She said he wasn’t going after the does but was interested in them, just hanging around watching them. After a couple of minutes he gave her a perfect pose at about 140 yds. Nice 9 pointer dropped in place with a .270. So daughter’s family takes home 2 bucks and a doe from their annual visit. Great week! Granddaughter Evelyn, the Chief Whitetail Inspector approves of mommy’s buck! Had trailcam pics of her buck too. Daughter likes to edit Josh Allen jumping over things photos, lol.

I’m done until muzzleloader unless someone signs another doe tag over to me. My wife is out now in the stand that we’ve been having our luck in. I’d rather keep the place chill for her until I’m in the game for a muzzleloader buck anyway. Rain yesterday, no pressure since Wednesday afternoon, lightly snowing with a fresh inch on the ground. She has a doe tag but said she’s not shooting does. Really hoping she scores!

Our son-in-law joined us for two days after spending the weekend at his Dad’s camp in Allegheny county. Unfortunately, he didn’t score on a buck over there this year. So he still had his buck tag but they’re from out of state so no doe tags available for him in our area. I consigned mine over to him so he didn’t have to leave here without a deer and told him don’t be shy about using it. He rode one of the wheelers out early to within a few hundred yards from the far side of the property about a mile back and slipped in to the stand I took my buck from on opening afternoon. He was in for less than an hour and had a buck come in pushing a doe across the field from his left to his right. He shot the buck on a trot at about 100 yds, and the buck fell forward in a heap right there, the .308 disconnecting the heart from the rest of the plumbing. At the shot, the doe bolted about 60 yards and stopped broadside. He dropped her right there, clipping off the bottom of the heart at 150. Not wanting to make too much noise with the tractor during morning prime-time, I waited about an hour before going out to retrieve them. I found him comfortably relaxing and enjoying some quiet time in the morning deer woods. I found a trail pic of his buck from October. That one tine that has a squiggle in it that made him easily identifiable.

Happy Thanksgiving all!

Wow - he’s a stud! So awesome you have that history!

Woohoo! Pic just sent from her. I don’t think she’s still bummed, lol. I’ll wait til dark in 15 mins and go help her with it! This stand just won’t cool off!

She was sure he dropped, but I’m convinced it was a clean miss. I think the antlers she saw was him looping around downhill through the goldenrod to join the does that bolted together as a group. Goldenrod is still 5-6 ft high, and if he was down and thrashing, he really wouldn’t be visible from her perspective. The adjacent mowed field was very frosty and I could see where it was freshly disturbed with deer running in the direction she saw them go. While two were grid searching for sign, I followed that for 250 yds until they got to the woods, and another 100+ yds in until the frost disappeared. Zero sign. No hair, no blood. No indication of a hit at the shot site or within a wide grid of it. Three of us looked for 4 hours, and two of us for another hour. Didn’t even see a hair. After we all went back to the house, I went back out with a drone and flew a grid over that field of golden rod. (To any DEC that may be reading this, the search was over, I wasn’t hunting, I’m tagged out unless I get a consignment tag, and all guns were back at the house 1/2 mile away), so I guess we gave it a thorough go. She’s pretty bummed. Said it was a nice buck and she’s never missed or not recovered one in 12 years of hunting. I keep telling her that record is a whole lot better than mine! It happens. And a clean miss on a good buck is better than wounding him. She knows all that but still very bummed out about it. I do know that feeling. More than once. She’s back in the stand that gave up two bucks in the last 5 days. My wife still has a doe tag that she can consign to her. Steph doesn’t want the tag, she wants a buck. She’s here til mid day Friday, so we’ll see if she changes her mind. Hate when my kid is so bummed.

This one is looking like a clean miss. What was “a head moving” seems more like his escape through the goldenrod. No hair or blood at the site. I could see where the buck and does ran through the mowed field in the disturbed frost. I followed that for about 250 yds. No sign of a hit deer. Got two people grid searching, and I came back for warmer clothes and will go back out to help.