This buck is wearing me out

[Otto]

Well.......

This is the same buck that was standing outside the back window Sunday morning as we were headed off to church.

At 11:00 am on the 9th I was about a mile deep in the woods.  Stupid me....I should stayed at the house.      






Meanwhile......  Forky is back for more!!!

[metsastaja]

too bad you weren't by the camera

[adeeden]

Keep after him! He's a real dandy!

[Covey]

I walk a 1/2 mile in, come back and have deer 25 yards from my truck!! just my luck, Jason

[BRIAN1897]

The buck is a good one.Did you notice the growth forward of the left front leg of the doe.What do you think that is?

[varmint101]

Boy that button sure has a growth on him!  

That sure is a nice buck.  Good luck with him

[Otto]

Brian1897

Yes, that does showed up last year and had that same growth.  It does not appear to have gotten any larger than it was last year.

[vermonster13]

Time for a roof stand? lol

[troutms]

What are they eating???

[JEFF B]

wow!! thats cool

[Otto]

troutms

That pic is about 20 feet out my kitchen window.  I feed em corn, sunflowers and sweet feed all year long.  Along with the occassional stale doughnut.  But the coons get those.

Every morning, even on the mornings I hunt, I throw food out.  But I won't even consider hunting near the house.  Not even on a trail leading to my house.  I want to hunt em where they live, not where I live.  My rule is:  If I can see the house, it ain't huntin.

It makes for some frustrating hunting at times but lot's of cool pics.

I looked back through some earlier pics this summer.  Here he is in velvet back in August.

[varmint101]

Oh thought it was a button lol.  Doe I killed this year had a small growth on her.

[Bonebuster]

I like your motto...Otto, "if I can see the house, it ain`t hunting"

Thanks for posting the great pics.  :D

[Arwin]

LOL! Your not the only one whose getting tortured by a buck.    
That is a nice one!

[George Metz]

Some of the biggest bucks I've ever seen were bedded in brush within sight of a house or farm. But you're right, it's no fun hunting there. Maybe the smart ones know that.

[Whip]

I dunno, I have 21 acres around my home. I can see either my own or my neighbors house from virtually all of it. So for me, at least around home, if I CAN'T see the house I ain't huntin'.
Oh well....

[Don Stokes]

Like Whip, I have three stands in my remaining 20 acres of woods, from which I can see my porch light (and the neighbor's) when the leaves fall. I don't feed them, so there's no difference in being deeper in the woods. Biggest problem is not pressuring them into being nocturnal. I have to be quiet leaving the house, so the screen door doesn't spook them.

[frank bullitt]

Quit feeding 'em, Otto! Then maybe they'll stay HOME!

Good shootin, Steve

[imhntn]

Sounds like you better quit feeding them at your house if you want to hunt them.  Great deer for sure.  Good luck.

[frassettor]

Great looking pictures! WOW