500 bucks

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These aren't the best pics but both were near dark.  I still wanted to get them both on film.

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and this guy was active as all heck....

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I am going to feature this guy in his own thread I think.  Not that he is that big of a buck, but he was special to me.  I tried my dangdest to get him on film last year but all I got was blurry pics of him.  Well, he was acting the same way this year.  He shrunk quite a bit from last year, but he was up to his same old ways, about 200 yards from where I chased him last year.  IN THE THICK STUFF.

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speaking of deer in the past.........I didn't see this guy this year.  I ahve followed him for about 5 years.  I figured last year would be his last.  Lilly and I saw him last year and he was way regressed from this pic.  He could hardly walk he was so stove up.

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I rattled this guy in and saw him three years in a row.  NOT THIS YEAR.
Not to play the whole wolf theory thing, but I found a shed buck that was killed by them last year right where this guy lived, so very well could have been him.  Same size class.  You have seen the pic, but one more time for memory lane for the new guys on here.

[Sagedawg]

 BONE!!!!!!!!!! Dont pollute the mulies with a whitetail.......   Although he is a very nice buck. To bad he may have been pulled down by wolve. JK on the pollution remark, I love to see all your pictures you put alot of time and effort to share them with all of us. Keep them coming, its alooooooooooooong time till next fall.



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[burnhamrandr]

nice pics!!! I love to see those mullies!!!!!!

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    Not much to worry about there Sage.  I saw so few whitetail bucks this year.  I think they got some disappearing virus or something.  Not even that much sign.  Maybe its good and the Muleys can regain a foothold.  I don't know.  You'd have thought I would have found skulls laying everywhere out there but I didn't in whitetail country.   I am pretty sure its not poaching pressure as they don't tend to succomb to that like the muleys do.  I was going to feaute this buck but I just didn't get that many different pics of him.  He was steadfast in where he wanted to be in the thick stuff.  He was a true fart last year, I'll see if I can find that pic.  he had a doe and he didn't wnat to leave her because he had a pesky friend nearby.  I know this buck is older, but he just doesn't look that impressive.

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This whole photoop I was proud of myself.  Patted myself on the back even.  Last time I had all the trees in focus instead of him.  this was an impossible mission for autofocus.  We were on the dark side of the mountain and I was trying to see him to do manual focus on him.  I am pretty sure this was evening.  I don't have my time or date set  on my camera compliments of my little photo friend playing with it.  Anyhow here is one of his buddy.  I think he is in focus and not the dozen trees around him.

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I doubt he will make it another year.  Man that was a smart deer.  I was damn happy to see him again and damn proud of getting him on film.  As far as I know he never leaves the dark timber.  If I find his skull in the spring I'll get some good shots of it.  This is the type of animal that I hold up as the ultimate trophy, ESPECIALLY in this state.

[Charlie]

Very nice Bone!! Keep-em com-in! 

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You'll get more of this guy in his own series.  I think I have him of film from two different days but I haven't stopped and confirmed that.