Sunday, August 19, 2012

New Pictures and Videos...New Shooters!!




 I was able to check my cameras today and boy did we get some action the last 4 weeks.  I set my Wildview to take 30 second videos and I got some of the coolest videos of deer.  I am attempting to post them on here and I am not sure how it will work so if the video doesn't play I do apologize and I will try something else.
Now the two cameras are set up over two separate water holes/mineral blocks and are on opposite sides of the property.  However I did have bucks visiting both sites which was really cool to see.
One buck, the big 8 from my previous post is making himself very visible.  I have him at both sites and 6-7 times and one time for a half hour.  I have probably 25 videos of him.  Another buck has turned up and he is a really tall 8 point, not wide at all but his G2 on his left side is very long as you will see.  Both of these bucks are at the top right now as far as our "hit list" goes.  Julie really likes the Big 8.
A couple other good bucks that I only have pictures of one time each are a wide 8-9pt and another tall antlered deer whom I believe is the same 9pt I had a ton of pictures of last year near this same spot.  He was a 2.5 year old last year.
My water holes worked awesome.  You will see in the pictures that follow that there was quite a bit of water at times.  They do dry up pretty quick but once it rains they fill right up.  I am very pleased.  I did notice though that the big bucks are paying much more attention to the minerals and that is probably because they are getting a lot of water from just eating right now and also that their bodies are requiring more minerals at this time.

The two pictures to follow are of the wide 8-9pt his tines are pretty short but he looks like he has about an 18" spread.





 These next two pictures are of the buck I believe is the tall 9 pt from last year.  Its hard to tell but I get to know these deer pretty good and his rack shape is identical to that of the deer from last year.



This next picture is of the tall 8pt I mentioned I have videos of him at the other spot as well.  Very good looking buck.

These next two are of the Big 8 that I have a ton of videos of and some pretty good pictures as well.  The second one here is a great picture of him.  Also one of the few times he has come out during day light.


 I have a bunch of pictures of fawns now also.  These triplets are standing directly in my water hole look how much water is in there.  This makes all the hard work worth it.

The next two are of the Tall 8 again.  Look at the G2 on his left side.  


This is the Big 8 again.

This I believe is a different group of fawns.  This is promising seeing all these fawns.