October 17th Whitetail Photographs





It's interesting this year that it looks like we have deer in two locations. I think the pipeline going through our property has a lot to do with this. One location is Whippoorwill and the other is the old house area. We're not even seeing scrapes along the old road, which is usually a hot bed of scrapes. It will be interesting to see what happens when they're done with the pipeline work. We'd put another camera over an attractant farther down the point at Whippoorwill and got pictures of the nine point from last week and also a new eight point with a bent G-3 tine. We've put up a couple of stands and have cameras watching one more scrape in this area.

We're still seeing all of our bucks, so none of them have wandered off to catch an arrow on an adjacent property. We're touching the edges of our property with the two new bucks, which makes it harder to keep them through the season. That's the reality when you go to the edges, but you never know when a big one may come your way or catch an older one who has reduced his core area.

I still haven't had the opportunity to see any of these bucks other than overbite, who was at the old house when I got there to collect the cameras again this week.

Now that we know where the hot locations are we're having some success at scrapes, but the attractants are the best hot spots for us. We got a lot of pictures at our oat plot, but other than the wide ten point the other big bucks haven't showed up.

This week we didn't get any coyote, bobcat or black bear pictures again this week. Check again next week.

Our new buck this week, a bent G-3 eight point.

The nine point buck we discovered last week.

One of our young eight point bucks.

Our biggest eight point buck.

This ten point looks like he's all puffed up to show the overbite buck who the boss is.

A selfie?

The wide ten point was the only big buck that visited this scrape this week.

The overbite buck hangs out at this feeder and doesn't seem to wander far.






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