Mr. Buck

There's a pretty good chance that by the time you view these photos the velvet on these antlers will be gone.

Anywho, there are some dandy buckaroos around these parts.

If you're careless you might catch a case of Buck Fever....

More Deer Camp

My business partner is visiting this weekend with her youngest son and a cousin to participate in the December antlerless gun hunt.

Which means you cannot shoot any of these.

If they are still alive....

Deer Camp

Remarkably these trail camera photos were all taken on the same day.

Yes, all five of the daytime buck photos.

I left the date and time stamp to document...

 

Trail Camera Action

Daytime deer movement.

It's a beautiful thing to see...

 

Wildlife Selfies

Nice batch of buckaroos to be photographed around here.

Daylight too...

Brown Velvet

From the trail camera are some nice shots and a video short of a few of the local bucks sporting their antlers as they grow.

Velvet bucks they are called.

 

I've started brushing-out our three and a half miles of trails so that at least two more deer stands can be assembled and placed in strategic locations.

Got deer hunting on my mind.

The Deer Camp Chronicles

These bucks were all photographed before the start of the gun opener last weekend.

I wonder how many of them are still walking around the landscape?

Like I said before Southern Door Count grows some dandy whitetails.

Gun season closes tomorrow at sundown.....

The Deer Camp Chronicles

Plenty of big bucks with very large and symmetrical antlers on the landscape.

Wall hangers they are.

Let's face it - Southern Door County is home to some awesome whitetail genetics.

Then there is this...

I don't suppose this buck has an inferiority complex about the appearance of his headgear.  It's not like they use mirrors.

Situations like this are generally the result of genetics.  Sometimes an injury.  And sometimes if you live long enough you out grow the awkward adolescent appearance.

Not that it matters too much to me.  That is a big two and a half year-old buck.  Besides, I still haven't found a good recipe for antlers.....

The Rut

The rut has officially arrived with the bucks making themselves visible during daylight hours and scrapes and rubs appearing on the landscape.

Including this dandy Big Boy that showed-up on one of the trail cameras.

Rub

Scrapes

Above the scrapes there is the licking branch

Trail

Pre Hunt Bucks

Final installment before the next round of trail camera maintenance or the gun hunt.

Whichever come first.....

 

More Buckaroos

And more bucks from a recent run of the trail camera trap line.

First photo is a buck checking a scrape.  Is it the same deer as featured in the last photo?

Photos two and three - same buck different location?

Photo four is a younger fork horn boy.

Still moving nocturnally - yet daylight photos have time stamps that fit hunting hours.

And More Buckaroos

The rut is kicking it into high gear now and the chase is on as male whitetails have romance on their minds.

There's been plenty more daylight deer activity so it's appropriate to share some more buck and doe photos.

Including a mutant!

More Buckaroos

Last Saturday Blonde Dog and I ran the trail camera trap line and swapped-out SD cards.

No shortage of bucks making themselves known.

And the pre-rut has picked-up the pace with some very active scrapes to be noted.

Here's a handful of nocturnal and a few daylight deer photos from three different locations...