October 30th, 2015 Whitetail Photographs

The last week of October and the bucks are after the does. They're spending a lot less time eating. Unfortunately, for the bucks, the does don't seem to be ready for their advances.

Even though the bucks didn't eat much, we got some of our best pictures at a protein feed location, but they didn't eat all the feed, which is rare.

Ryan and I both sat out on Friday evening. Ryan saw the small eight point that showed up a couple of weeks ago. The buck ran off when the feeder where he was at spun. I saw another small buck that chased two does past me. It looked like either the six point or the seven point. Later the typical ten point showed up. Shortly after he arrived he noticed another buck that I couldn't see and proceeded to chase it off. It turned out that it was the eight point that had run from the feeder where Ryan was. The ten point ran it off and then worked the licking branch and scrape on the tree by the mineral lick. It was a good show.

We still haven't had a good look at our big nine point. We've seen the rest of them, but not the nine. He may force us to take a shot if he's as big as he looks in the pictures.

They hit the scrapes hard this week and we got quite a few pictures. I've added a camera to another scrape along the right of way. We'll see what they do this week.

We didn't get any bobcat, black bear or coyote pictures again this week. Maybe next week.

This buck has potential with width and tall brow tines.

The big nine point looks like he tried to get stickers on both his G-2's.

The ten point with short G-2's at the same spot.

This looks like our small seven point buck.

The overbite eight point at a mineral lick.

The ten point I was Friday evening. He was real close, but not quite big enough to take a shot at yet.

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