Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)

[John321]

Great photos! What night vision do you use? I like my googles, bought from here: http://www.atncorp.com/night-vision-goggles

[pope]

Thanks for posting your photos, Bobcat. Yesterday I went back to where I'd left a deer 3 weeks ago and I couldn't find any bones in the area, just some hair and a couple of chunks of neck bone. Now I understand why nobody finds bigfoot remains.

[Axle]

Nice pictures! thanks for sharing 

[bobcat]

The camera is a Moultrie M80.

Duckslayer- is your camera a black flash? My Moultrie is a standard infrared flash. I don't have any of the black flash cameras but from what I've read, a lot of them don't produce very good night time pictures. But I just don't know much about them.

I've been really happy with this Moultrie M80. I picked it up a couple years ago as a refurbished unit for $65. I wish I had more than one of these.

[bobcat]

Pope- I can't find a trace of the deer I killed there. Not even a hair. The bear cleaned it up pretty well. And I assume coyotes may have helped as well.

[Sitka_Blacktail]

Looks like at least 2 different 3x3s and 2 different spikes in those pix. Should be good there next year.

Just looked again and it looks like a 2x1 also.

[bobcat]

That's what I was thinking- it's looking good for next year. I'm thinking about putting up a ladder stand. Probably will put it up in the spring to give the deer lots of time to get used to it. What will be tough to decide is if I should hunt rifle season or muzzleloader season.

[Duckslayer89]

The camera is a Moultrie M80.

Duckslayer- is your camera a black flash? My Moultrie is a standard infrared flash. I don't have any of the black flash cameras but from what I've read, a lot of them don't produce very good night time pictures. But I just don't know much about them.

I've been really happy with this Moultrie M80. I picked it up a couple years ago as a refurbished unit for $65. I wish I had more than one of these.

I'm not sure if it's a backflash. But I don't think it's infrared so it's probably backflash. I hardly ever go cheap but I did on the camera now I know why I don't go cheap!!

[Smith_22]

Nice pics bobcat, those deer sure have a pretty coat on them.  Great looking bear too.  Thanks for sharing.  Ladder stands are the way to go, we usually put them up mid august and within a few weeks the deer are walking right under them, bucks included.  Good luck. 

[fishnfur]

Those are some pretty big bodied bucks for such small racks.  Real fatties.  Looks like the rut wasn't too tough on them.

One of those bucks looks like it may be a 4 X 2 or 4 X 3 next year if that crabby claw develops a bit more.  Hope we see some mid-summer pics of that one.

[bobcat]

I'll try to get a camera up in late July, but don't know if those bucks will even be in the area at that time of year.

[Curly]

Cool pics!