Big Bucks for Josh II Photo Safari

[boneaddict]

and then I am watching the buck and he is watching something....I look out from the camera....TWO MORE  I honestly only saw one through my lens finder.  Then I noted the second one almost like a double image, I thought what the heck.

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.  I wish I could have had the buck and coyotes in the same field of view

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The deer had enough of hound, and I wanted to get one more shot of the dude .......GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY....

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the deer mosied up the hill and low and behold another buck.  A busted two.  He was the dominant one over this fellow.  He ran both of them off and had a nice little harem to himself.

[270Shooter]

Great pics guys.

Bone tell me thats not a whitetail doe

[boneaddict]

Yep, he was missing something.......

Then we moved on and went back to glass to see if we could find any more bedded down.  Kicked some does, but no bucks.  On our way back we passed this little guy somewhere along the way.  I will add him to the nice genetics file.  He is a young one with lots of potential.  these are the type of bucks we are hammering from the gene pool with the three point or better rule.  Don't get me wrong, I like that rule.



That IS a whitetail doe.  Not really their area but I have seen two of them there.  Believe my bone stories or not, but not far from here there was one of the largest whitetails I have ever had the pleasure of seeing.  He was a 30 incher.  NOT *censored*TING you.  I had ins with the wildlife manager of this area and he had seen it two consequetive years in a row doing a deer count.  One I didn't believe him where it was and two I didn't believe him that it was a thirty incher.  I figured about 25 or something like that.  OH HELL NO.  He was that big.  What a monster....anyways, no pics to back it up so just have to believe Bone and the fact he doesn't exaggerate much.

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the day progressed and we went through alot of country where I always see bucks.  NOTHING......  Then this guy reared his ugly little head.

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When he turned and ran, I thought a nontypical like a whitetail, but I guess that was just his back tine.  Hound thought the same thing....

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This is when it happened.  I was just explaining to hound how we were in big buck alley and if we were to see a buck it would be a big one.  We had just seen a group of about 6-8 does but no buck around.  I though that was weird.  Then all of a sudden, standing there Mr regal was a Near 30 incher.  i bet he was 29 at least, maybe not quite thirty, but it wasn't like he stood for long and let us look at him.  He bailed over the hill and we tried to parallel him.  he then dove off the moutain, so we whipped around on the road and got back below him.  We were fortunate to jump hiim again and see him.  I told hound to put the camera down and just enjoy him as there was no way he was going to let us take his pic.  He had been shot at way too many times.  Very nice deer.  I am hoping that is one of Hounds biggest bucks or at least widest.  he was a dandy.  he was average mass but a little weak in all the forks.  he was a 4.5 year old deer by the looks of him so in two years.    I bet he was pushing 170 just from his frame.   NICE.  I don't recall what his eyeguards were.

[boneaddict]

the next buck besides a couple small ones was this fellow.....we got to watch him quite some time.  Hound got pretty close I think.

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I thought we were going to witness a mount job, they were close.

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Next highlite of the trip was when we rounded the corner on our way off the mountain.  Not very far at all from where Timber and I spotted the bull and little female calves, here they were with Mom.  I was glad she was still with us.

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