Biggest/favorite bucks from past 5 yrs...

[Five Seasons]

2 hours ago, BizCT said:

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[BizCT]

57 minutes ago, 9jNYstarkOH said:

holy brows.

[BizCT]

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I didn't know you were hunting there. Millhouse and Lou did the perc test not far from your well pic

[wolc123]

I will guess that the relative lack of buck pics, that some folks are getting lately, is a direct result of this summer’s drought.   No animal will spend extra energy, so they hang out where they can get what they need, for the smallest expenditure.  
 

Where that is for a deer in the summer, in most of central and western NY, is in green, standing cornfields.   Those provide cover, food, and hydration.  Where else can they find all that right now ?  Field corn puts roots down up to 10 feet, and that scavenges lots of moisture out of the drought-stricken ground.  That moisture is stored in the ears of corn “free for the taking”.

It sounds like not too many of you are running cameras in cornfields.  I have never seen as much early deer usage of my standing corn as I have this year.  We (my family) has grown corn on this ground since before the Civil war.  
 

Here are some pictures of 2 of a 3-buck group,

that I kicked out of there a couple weeks ago, the largest of which had antlers well beyond his ear width.

I didn’t get a picture of the last one that bolted out across the adjacent tilled field, but he looked to be the smallest of the group. 
 

That said, I don’t mind the deer using the corn.  They are the primary reason that I still plant it.  My grandfather would have been pissed, back when we had cattle.  Deer are extremely efficient consumers of corn, usually consuming a whole ear, before moving on to the next one, and taking no more than they need.  
 

Contrast that to the raccoons, which are about as inefficient consumer of corn that there is, because of their “sweet tooth” .  They nock down a bunch, just taking a nibble from each ear, looking for a sweeter one.  Luckily, that makes them easy to trap, by using a little bit of “sacrificial” sweetcorn planted near the field corn.  I removed # 7 for the year, two nights ago.   “Damaging” coons may be legally trapped and killed in NY without a permit, but the carcasses need to be burried or burned, prior to the opening of regular trapping season. 

Hopefully, that local “coon eradication” will be enough to stretch my 2 acres of field corn until the January 1 ending of the holiday ML season, as I intended.  4 acres made it until March 1 last year, but we didn’t have such a bad drought, and the deer didn’t get on it until it was fully mature in Late October.

 

Edited September 2, 2022 by wolc123

[phade]

That’s a little better. 
 

Believe him to be 5.5 as I have matched set from 2020-21 season with the same split brows and estimated him at 3 then. Several night images of him over the years but first daytime image of him that I can recall close to season. He’s been a ghost to date in season.

[WNY Bowhunter]

5 hours ago, phade said:

That’s a little better. 
 

Believe him to be 5.5 as I have matched set from 2020-21 season with the same split brows and estimated him at 3 then. Several night images of him over the years but first daytime image of him that I can recall close to season. He’s been a ghost to date in season.

Nice! NY or OH deer?

[WNY Bowhunter]

First card pull of the season at this spot. Not too bad for only sitting for 3 days.

Beautiful frame on this guy.

Edited September 4, 2022 by WNY Bowhunter

[WNY Bowhunter]

Four years of history with this deer. Not a huge rack but at least 5.5 but more likely 6.5 this season

[WNY Bowhunter]

My cousin's pics but a good one from the area I grew up hunting. He made a great jump from last year!

[LET EM GROW]

Wrote about a few of mine last year in a thread..

1) Chunk.. 10.5 yr old. Disappeared in 2018 ML Season(When the poachers began showing up after dark... ) Very patternable buck.. Was anyways

2) The Ghost.. 9.5 yr old. I Missed him with my bow at 8.5yrs died by gun at 9.5yrs old. Both bucks lived on the same hill at the same time.. 

3) Big10..  The buck that started my madness for only Mature bucks.. Patterned him for 3 years straight, Missed him at 7 yards with a ML as a 5.5 yr old.  Got wounded and succumbed in a crick at 6.5 yrs old during gun season..  Can see my bullet graze on his belly in the night pic. Hes squaring up to "The Ghost" when he was a 3.5yr old in the daytime pic.. 

4) Sixxy.. A Big 6 that grew a ton of character and stickers at 5.5-6.5 yrs old.. Missed him at 35 yards with my bow when he was 5.5yrs old, same deer season I missed "Big10" hundred yards a part on my 12 acres.. Big10 is next to "Sixxy" in the daytime velvet pic..    

To be continued.. 

[moog5050]

5 minutes ago, LET EM GROW said:

Wrote about a few of mine last year in a thread..

1) Chunk.. 10.5 yr old. Disappeared in 2018 ML Season(When the poachers began showing up after dark... ) Very patternable buck.. Was anyways

2) The Ghost.. 9.5 yr old. I Missed him with my bow at 8.5yrs died by gun at 9.5yrs old. Both bucks lived on the same hill at the same time.. 

3) Big10..  The buck that started my madness for only Mature bucks.. Patterned him for 3 years straight, Missed him at 7 yards with a ML as a 5.5 yr old.  Got wounded and succumbed in a crick at 6.5 yrs old during gun season..  Can see my bullet graze on his belly in the night pic. Hes squaring up to "The Ghost" when he was a 3.5yr old in the daytime pic.. 

4) Sixxy.. A Big 6 that grew a ton of character and stickers at 5.5-6.5 yrs old.. Missed him at 35 yards with my bow when he was 5.5yrs old, same deer season I missed "Big10" hundred yards a part on my 12 acres.. Big10 is next to "Sixxy" in the daytime velvet pic..    

To be continued.. 

Between you and WNY I knew Stueben Co and IA were one in the same!   Geeze.  

[LET EM GROW]

5) Flyer.. He was a tougher buck to follow, I put a 52 acre piece of property i hunted for years on the back burner as my son was born and required a lot of extra hands on attention, about 1 mile from my 12 acre camp.. The Amish next door trespassed on it all the time.. And i was busy.. While busy.. A neighbor(relation to a member here) moved in and began hunting my stands. So i just backed out completely.. Let him have it, and never went back in.. At the same time.. The Amish packed up and moved out. turning their 105 acre property into a huge phenomenal sanctuary of overgrown ness..  This buck made it home.. After a few years of chasing him and only getting eyes on him, as he was very present at my camp still too, The new neighbor got him..  I'm guessing him to be 7.5yr or 8.5yr old based off history and pictures of this deer.. 

 

And yes I have the history in trail cam pics and sightings to prove all these bucks.. I did lose a few pics from transferring archives over the years.. 

But its fun to follow these brutes, they really teach you a lot if you follow what they do, and piece the puzzle together..  

[WNY Bowhunter]

6 minutes ago, LET EM GROW said:

5) Flyer.. He was a tougher buck to follow, I put a 52 acre piece of property i hunted for years on the back burner as my son was born and required a lot of extra hands on attention, about 1 mile from my 12 acre camp.. The Amish next door trespassed on it all the time.. And i was busy.. While busy.. A neighbor(relation to a member here) moved in and began hunting my stands. So i just backed out completely.. Let him have it, and never went back in.. At the same time.. The Amish packed up and moved out. turning their 105 acre property into a huge phenomenal sanctuary of overgrown ness..  This buck made it home.. After a few years of chasing him and only getting eyes on him, as he was very present at my camp still too, The new neighbor got him..  I'm guessing him to be 7.5yr or 8.5yr old based off history and pictures of this deer.. 

 

And yes I have the history in trail cam pics and sightings to prove all these bucks.. I did lose a few pics from transferring archives over the years.. 

But its fun to follow these brutes, they really teach you a lot if you follow what they do, and piece the puzzle together..  

Dang, you've had some beauties over the years! Several legends there. Old a

 

[LET EM GROW]

55 minutes ago, WNY Bowhunter said:

Dang, you've had some beauties over the years! Several legends there. Old a

 

That bucks body is so big it makes him rack look a bit smaller than it actually is. 

[BizCT]

1 hour ago, LET EM GROW said:

Wrote about a few of mine last year in a thread..

1) Chunk.. 10.5 yr old. Disappeared in 2018 ML Season(When the poachers began showing up after dark... ) Very patternable buck.. Was anyways

2) The Ghost.. 9.5 yr old. I Missed him with my bow at 8.5yrs died by gun at 9.5yrs old. Both bucks lived on the same hill at the same time.. 

3) Big10..  The buck that started my madness for only Mature bucks.. Patterned him for 3 years straight, Missed him at 7 yards with a ML as a 5.5 yr old.  Got wounded and succumbed in a crick at 6.5 yrs old during gun season..  Can see my bullet graze on his belly in the night pic. Hes squaring up to "The Ghost" when he was a 3.5yr old in the daytime pic.. 

4) Sixxy.. A Big 6 that grew a ton of character and stickers at 5.5-6.5 yrs old.. Missed him at 35 yards with my bow when he was 5.5yrs old, same deer season I missed "Big10" hundred yards a part on my 12 acres.. Big10 is next to "Sixxy" in the daytime velvet pic..    

To be continued.. 

wow. wow

[ANTLERS]

This poor guy had the life, Nassau county no hunting, no coyotes ect until Aunt Mary took him out with her Audi 

[NYBowhunter]

Have pics of this guy last few years,  never seen him while hunting, for all I know he's still around. One in velvet was from last year (21') and other was from 2019.

[BizCT]

There's are the top ones that "got away", but had history with.

1 - 8pt in 3N. Had pics of him all summer, fall, and winter in 2017. Finally had a blizzard and it stopped midday so I walked in with shotgun and ran into him at 20 yards as I came over hill and he was coming up. We both froze and then he took off and I didn't take a running shot. I tracked him through snow for 1/4 mile caught him again bedded but no shot. Had pics of him in 2018 (also attached). same rack with smaller left side G3 but everything was slightly bigger. Never a fall pic or seen again.

2 - 7pt in 3N in 2017. He would spar with the aforementioned 8pt in September making some great pics. Last pic was this one on 9/24. He never was on any cam again while the aforementioned 8pt stayed all fall and into the following year.

3- 8pt with tiny brows in 3S (bow only) in 2017. Saw him a few days later at 50-60 yards walking by. Big body.

4- Squiggle 8pt in 3S (bow only) in 2020. I see him once, maybe twice. Never under 75 yds. 

5 - Nighttime 10pt in 3S (bow only) in 2020. I see him once a week before this pic, but out of range 60-70yds. 

6 - Daytime 10pt in 3S (bow only) in 2020. I never saw him in person and only got 1 pic of him (this one). If you look close, he is NOT the same buck as the nighttime 10pt mentioned above. 

7 - Chocolate 8pt. in 3S (bow only) in 2021. I saw him a few times last fall. Including once under 25 yards but in heavy brush. I didn't take the risky shot and the other days I saw him he was out of range 60-80yds. Rack was even darker in person. Have great videos of him with baited breath.

8 -  Crabclaw 10pt in 3S (bow only) in 2021. I never saw him in person, but I know he was killed about a mile away by someone @crappyice knows. Only had a few night pics of him.

9 - Last, but not least a 3S stateland big 9pt (bow only). I went with @crappyice to stateland on December 21 in the afternoon and tried to push some deer around for him. No luck. But I came across a camera, so I checked the pics and put the card back. There was multiple videos of this 9pt (screenshot attached). Chris and I sat the last 2 hours before dark separately. He saw a doe out of range and I saw this buck 80 yards away walk right under a super tall treestand that neither of us sat in. 

Lots of mature bucks. None 125", but great ones for my area for sure. and none have great brows of course

Unfortunately, I lost access to the 3S private land spot. It was amazing for 1-2 weeks each November. Oh well. 

 

 

Edited September 7, 2022 by BizCT

[GreeneHunter]

My sons 8 Pointer from last year  ...

 

[Fletch]

Two that I still pull up pics. One was 10 years ago and had him only once in season during daylight on cam and was moving my Mom... 11 point beast. Never saw again after that season.


The other was 5-6 years ago out behind the house. A super wide tank had all summer and saw the year before. Season opened never saw again.





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[phade]

No confirmation any of these died but the wide 8 disappeared after December. Me thinks he dead. He covered enough ground on our farm for me to know he roamed and likely on a wall somewhere.

One of the others made it through and I got a pic of him in June or July. Crappy pic but it’s him. Nothing since.

Unfortunately I saw all of them in person but not a shot to be had. The wide 8, I was halfway down the stand one evening. Him looking at me, me looking at him, and my bow on the ground. He didn’t even blow out of there. Just walked away. Like he knew. Showed up to same spot next morning in daylight which is the image you see. Was on a stand on 11/27 and could see those images being taken. 60 yards away. Ugh. What a day. Those two larger bucks had a knockdown drag out fight in front of me over a hot doe.

Edited September 7, 2022 by phade

[BizCT]

next up is @Belo !

[BizCT]

1 hour ago, GreeneHunter said:

My sons 8 Pointer from last year  ...

 

he got away after these pics??

[GreeneHunter]

1 hour ago, BizCT said:

he got away after these pics??

Huh ?

[WNY Bowhunter]

1 hour ago, phade said:

No confirmation any of these died but the wide 8 disappeared after December. Me thinks he dead. He covered enough ground on our farm for me to know he roamed and likely on a wall somewhere.

One of the others made it through and I got a pic of him in June or July. Crappy pic but it’s him. Nothing since.

Unfortunately I saw all of them in person but not a shot to be had. The wide 8, I was halfway down the stand one evening. Him looking at me, me looking at him, and my bow on the ground. He didn’t even blow out of there. Just walked away. Like he knew. Showed up to same spot next morning in daylight which is the image you see. Was on a stand on 11/27 and could see those images being taken. 60 yards away. Ugh. What a day. Those two larger bucks had a knockdown drag out fight in front of me over a hot doe.

I have a feeling we'll be seeing a close up of one of those guys this season!