Looking Good for 2017

[retrieverman]

I posted in another thread that I was at my place over the weekend getting cameras and feeders up and running, and with all water and vegetation, I figured the deer should be faring well. The first buck pictures are really promising especially with about 60 days of antler growing time to go. In the first 12 hours, I've already got three bucks coming in, and I'm really starting to get excited. Here's the biggest so far.

 

[dennishoddy]

Gonna be a good one. Guess I'd better get that disk fixed, head to the farm and get the ground worked and a feeder going.

 

[retrieverman]

I'm a month earlier than when I normally get ready, but this may be the start of a new normal.

 

[dennishoddy]

Be very cool to actually track the growth and then have the final result in a harvest pic.

 

[retrieverman]

As a little background on the stand location where this buck is showing up, this is the same stand that I killed my 2014 and 2015 bucks. Those two bucks didn't appear to venture too far from this feeder, these bucks have already visited the feeder twice this morning (6am and 9am). I sure hope this trend continues.

 

[DEER 24/7]

looking good

 

[SnowCamo]

As a little background on the stand location where this buck is showing up, this is the same stand that I killed my 2014 and 2015 bucks. Those two bucks didn't appear to venture too far from this feeder, these bucks have already visited the feeder twice this morning (6am and 9am). I sure hope this trend continues.

Did you kill these two before the rut? Just curious

 

[retrieverman]

Did you kill these two before the rut? Just curious

Oh Yes, in October.

 

[Okie4570]

Did you kill these two before the rut? Just curious

If you don't, your chances go way down up here it seems. Even if they do survive the season, they'll sometimes vanish until the next August or so. You may shoot your "neighbors" deer during the rut, but my good bucks on cam will be gone usually by November.

 

[retrieverman]

From yesterday and this morning.