Close!!

Well Julie gave a doe a haircut tonight. She shot and the doe jumped at the sound of her shot and she just missed. We found a bunch of dark hair on the ground but no blood. I told her better to miss like that than to hit the doe high. We will keep trying. Its a never ending learning process.

FINALLY!!!

Well a lot of you might know but I finally got a buck today. I shot him on Weds evening Scott and I tracked him for an hour and a half, lost the blood trail and decided to give him the night. The next morning myself, Julie and Jacob went out and Julie and Jacob found some blood about 50 yards from where Scott and I lost the trail. So I am pretty sure I would not have found this deer if it werent for them. Well we looked until about 11 and called it quits for the morning. I got back out there at 3:30 and this time Ross and Eric helped me and after some great advice from Ross we found him laying about 30 yards from where Julie, Jacob and myself quit in the morning. So I just want to say thank you to all of you guys for helping couldn't of found him with out you.
He is a 10pt and i measured his inside spread at 13 1/2 inches his g2's are both 5 1/2 inches not to shabby for a 2 1/2 year old deer. I wonder what his dad looks like. Thanks again everyone!!!

Some Bucks without velvet and Jakes first doe hunt

Well below are some pictures of bucks with their velvet off. I got two of the tall 8 I have been posting on here for 3 months now. He is looking pretty good. Also got a new six pointer that I have not gotten any pictures of before. His rack looks really nice. Hope he makes it to next year.

Also, I took Jacob out tonight for the early doe season and his first deer hunt. Well we got skunked but he did great sat nearly 2 hours and complained very little. Of course when we left there were three doe in the hay field which was where I originally was going to sit. Oh well thats the game we play.

Still Growing and some other cool pictures

Here are some new pictures. My batteries ran out last week so I didn't get a ton of pictrues but here are some of the better ones.

Now the next picture is the tall 8 I have been watching grow all summer. The top picture is the latest and the bottom is from about 2 weeks ago. You can see he is turning into a good little buck. Its just really cool to watch them grow.

Fixed Pictures

Well I did some playing around with that picture of the bigger buck and got it where you can see his antlers a little better. Hopefully I get a better picture this week and then there won't be any guess work but I think I can count 5 on each side. Either way I am excited now for this coming season and he is on top of the list.

New side of property new set off bucks

Well like I said I moved my camera to the other side of the property to catch some different deer. I was really happy with what I found. From what I can see I have 1 new 1.5 year old, a nice looking 2.5 year old 8 point, and a really big deer that looks to be 3.5 for sure. Take a look.

This looks like to me to be a possible 6 point, although its hard to tell with one side missing.

This is a nice looking 8 point.

Now the picture above and the one below I think are the same deer. You can see he's got a really big body. In the picture below if you click on it and look at the picture from a different angle when its bigger, you can see he has a really nice rack. This is the deer I am thinking to be 3.5 for sure.

No big boys, but i got one that is looking pretty good and a lot of small 1.5's

This is the 6 point that I passed last gun season. He is looking like an 8 for sure maybe a nine if he grows another g3 on his right side. It looks like he has a kicker on his right side so that would make him a nine point.

I moved the camera to the other side of the property so hopefully I can get a couple other bigger guys on camera. Its looking like a lot of 1.5's this year so might be a lot of dummys chasing does this year. Lets hope one of the older boys makes an appearance also. I am going to also go out for the early doe season with Jacob this year. He is really excited because he wants to go out with me in a tree stand. He wasn't to happy about only hunting does. I have a feeling we will see a buck when we go out and I am going to have to explain why we can't shoot it.