I'm having a rough go at the camera game this summer and it is a swift kick in the nuts to say the least! I have 6 cams on order that should be here in a week or two, so I hope that will help me line a few more good bucks up before August is over with. I have 5 cameras on our farm right now and one at my parents place. I jerked one of the cams at the farm to hang at my parents in hopes that maybe there will be some better action out there. I have three cams over corn, two over minerals, and one watching an old logging road right now. The latest cam check did not reveal much, but I guess it is always better than coyotes peeing on your minerals right JB?!?
First fawn pic of the year...
I have a ton of pics of this buck interacting with the coons. He runs this feeder and has little regard for any other animal that wants to eat here! He circled this coon twice before taking a swing at him!!!
I really expected this camera to give me something better than this buck. I hung it over a heavily used creek crossing and this was the only deer to cross here in two weeks. Not a bad buck, but nothing I'd shoot...
Thought this was a great pic of one of the healthier looking does on the farm right now...
Decent bases on this buck and his body seems to be pretty solid. I'm not sure what he'll turn in to, but he mildly peaks my interest at this point...
So after going through 800 pictures from 5 different cams and with nothing great to show for it, I was beginning to pout a little. Tracie was sitting next to me and I said: "It's mid-June and I still don't have a picture of a shooter. This is getting old already. Fuck me..." Literally the next picture was this one...
Followed by a few more pictures of Captain Jack...
His body has come a long ways in two years! After zooming in on these pics, I can tell his mass is better, but not what I had hoped for as a 4.5 year old. In a perfect world, I'd love to see him go another year. I was also able to determine that was him in the pictures from May 15th. So for the first time in my life, I have the chance to harvest a buck I have 3 years of history with. This is the first picture of him from 2010 and the first from 2011 to go with the firsts from this year...