October 3rd Whitetail Photographs

Acorns have fallen and this is the story of our pictures this week. Acorns mean that there is food on almost every hillside. This makes it harder to get them in front of our cameras. We hang our hat on providing food and other attractants which keep deer visiting our camera locations. The acorns spread the deer out and the deer prefer acorns over anything we can provide. Don't tell the attractant makers this, but they haven't made anything that beats the real thing.

Acorns aside we did get at least one picture of each of our bigger bucks.

We're still not getting pictures at scrapes or licking branches. We're trying two new locations this week. We put one camera along the old road that has paid off in the past and put a stick in a spot for them to have their licking branch. If they take to this branch, we'll get a huge laugh from it. We also found another scrape in a spot littered with acorns that we'd monitored in the past. We also just put one camera among some oaks where a lot of acorns are already on the ground and there was a nice rub line.

This was another coyote week again in two different locations. The bucks didn't flock to the attractants, but a coyote did. Make sure you take a look at the coyote picture page.

One of our small eight point bucks. It's good to see these young bucks with eight points.

The other young eight point buck.

The wide ten point. The dominant buck on our place.

The other ten point. We have big hopes if this bucks survive the season.

Our biggest antlered buck in a different location from the other two big bucks.

The overbite buck is our camera loving buck. Maybe he had trouble eating acorns with his crazy jaw.

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