We've been using our trail cams since this Spring and this is the first time we have seen this gal. We thought we knew all the deer that hang out in and around our property but we know that when the rut starts (seems like it has started about a week earlier this year) that we often see bucks we have never seen before. I get the feeling this old gal stays low, takes her time and is very observant. On one of the three pics I have of her she is staring right at the blind.
Overspined....the corn has nothing to do with it...I can't afford to feed them so they get that big. But, in our area we are impressed with the number of does that make it thru the firrearms season and how big some of them are. The State of NH has limited the taking of does this year by shortening the season on them in most areas. Muzzleloaders have one weekend plus 5 days and the same is true for regular firearms. I still have two tags and will not "waste" my doe tags (actually they are either sex tags) on yearlings or does with fawns. This is the fourth season we have owned the property and each year, so far, the late bow season has given me opportunities on some big does but because I took smaller anterless deer earlier I could not harvest one. I holding that tag til the last day if I have to.
Bobby, if I am fortunate enough to take a doe and win the arrows (which I really don't need) we will have to come up with a way to have them go to some needy kid or service man. Your contest has just given me more motivation to take one of four does that I would consider shooting. This one and one other one are at the top of the list...and I will post the weight. Stuff like this keep me motivated to go out every day I can. But I don't want to overhunt that blind but it's hard not to do so with deer like that running around., Muzzleloaders will be out today so the deer on the outskirts of our property should know my now that our place is "safe" for them....as least from the guns.