WNY Bowhunter

To me, one of the best parts of running trailcams is the opportunity to follow individual bucks over multiple years.. You never know which deer will be the one you end up developing a history with (hardly ever the ones that you want to see grow up). I first noted this buck back in the summer of 2014 as a 2 year old 6-point. Digging through pics from a few months prior, I realized that he had showed up on the farm in January as a broken racked yearling . It was apparent that he wasn't ever going to be a high scorer but had some really cool character to his rack. I was happy to see him show backup on cam during post season scouting. Unfortunately, he was already shed out and appeared to have been wounded during season. With the all the deep snow/frigid weather we had through Feb and March, I was certain he wouldn't make the winter. He proved me wrong and I was shocked to see him in a bachelor group in late June! It took another month before he showed up on one of my cams. You could see the scar above his shoulders from his close call the previous fall. I got some good pics of him on scrapes during bow season and then he disappeared, but once again showed up in late December but only one time. I did have several sightings of him in a neighboring beanfield carrying his antlers into late February and was excited to see what he would over the summer. The drought that we experienced in the Finger Lakes Region really affected the deer's patterns and he never showed up on any of my cams over the summer and left me wondering what he turned in to...

Thanks for the compliments. I haven't been bored lately...

I scored him when I first got him...think is was 135 gross - 129 net.

Well, I'm glad your mount didn't have ground shrinkage!!!

Oh sure they are, you must be hunting the wrong area...lol. Still not the biggest from the area that I've had my hands on but he's in the top 5.

Did it look like this? We may use the same taxidermist.

Congrats on an awesome buck!!! I look forward to bringing him back to life for you!

My wife dropped the hammer on a fat doe tonight at 217 yds. No tracking needed...

Couldn't stand it any more...had to drop one tonight at 190 yds with the TC Icon 308.

Last year same spot...

For the past couple of weeks I've been trying to get pics of a droptined buck at some winery property that I hunt. Well, he finally showed up...but, he's not the droptine I was hoping for (there were two here last fall). This guy was supposedly killed by the neighbor's, but apparently that is not the case. He's got to be 5.6 -6.5 years old. You can see the ladder to my stand right below the spruce branches.

Mounted this one the other day. Not really sure about it...maybe its the forward ears I don't like?

I asked my hide tanning guy if he saw any ticks on your deer...he said...man, the were sticking out everywhere!

Another 2.5 from the same farm. He's my best up and comer. Hope he survives the gun season...

I caped a 8P buck last night that was loaded with ticks. Not nearly as bad as Moog's though!

Don't see many 2.5 year old forkhorns. Congrats.

Here's a sample of one ear. Pulled him out of the freezer this morning...hopefully they're dead now. Need to get him caped and to my tanning guy this afternoon.

I've grown up in 8P and have handled hundreds of deer from the area and none have come remotely close to this guy for ticks!

As I stated...I have not captured pics from this year yet...but, there was a droptined buck spotted numerous times after season and he was just reportedly spotted. I hope to update this post shortly.

These are LAST year's pics. Moving cams there shortly to try to get a look at him this year as he was just spotted again a few days ago.

Congrats on the recovery of your buck!

Had this guy on cam last year at some winery property that I hunt several times. Believe it or not, there were actually 3 different droptined deer roaming within a mile of each other!!! I got two of them on this scrape. I had heard that one of these deer had gotten tagged on the neighboring property during gun season and the other was seen several times after season. Going in this season I really hoped that the dropper 10 was the one that made it and he was the one buck that I was most excited about seeing this fall. A couple of days ago it was confirmed when a monster 10 with a droptine was spotted in this same area. I can't kill him for a couple of weeks...but, the hunt is onto get pics of him. Moving several cams there now, hoping he visits one of them!

Yes it would!

Thanks. I got a beautiful buck in from a forum member over the weekend...he'll make an awesome wall pedestal mount. He also had some B&C class ticks on him!!!