Two years ago, first time I put out a trail cam(my old home brew 35mm) for the year, I got a pic of this nice 1 1/2yr old buck......
A little closer......
Fast forward to last year...first time I put out a new Moultrie I4.0....I got a pic of this buck...a nice 7 pt......
At first I didn't even realize that they were the same buck till I found the pic from the previous year. This pic from last year was from Aug., I saw him in mid October and he'd transformed into a stud! Big body, very thick neck, and his antlers were far more impressive than they are in the TC pic....he was high,wide, and heavier than the pix revealed, from then he'd be known as The Big 7".
Never saw him again till I got this video late in the year with a big 8pt(he's the first buck running)....
So now to this year.....again first time out for the camera. First buck I get pix of..."The Big 7"!!
Now the pic I'm about to show isn't very good(for some reason this Moultri "white's out" the first pic in the burst mode), and I had a better pic that showed him very well that I mistakenly deleted before I downloaded it :mad: . Without a doubt the same deer...and he's grown into a very, very nice mature buck!
Like I said the other pic was much better and showed the height, width, and heaviness of the antlers(I still can't believe I deleted it by mistake :mad: ) . He's also added his other G-3 to the left antler toward the end of the beam. If you look at the second pic up top, you can see as a 1 1/2yr old, he had a bump out toward the end of his beam.....the new point is in the same place toward the end of the beam....
So it looks like now he's an 8pt., but he'll always be "The Big 7" to me......
I pulled the camera to put it some place else, but I will get it back(or hopefully another) to see if I can get a better picture os him....
One thing I learned over the years that bucks are far more impressive in person than in tc pix....
He's moving thru the same funnel he's been for the last three years...I have a new tree picked out further into some thicker cover and a good entry to the stand. In the last pic he's 10yds from my tree. The stand will go up next time I go in and the shooting lanes have been cleared since early spring
Topic: The Big 7....thru the years.... (Read 202 times)
