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Title: Fresh gnarl
Post by: boneaddict on November 27, 2013, 02:22:13 AM

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Title: Re: Fresh gnarl
Post by: boneaddict on November 27, 2013, 02:27:21 AM

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Title: Re: Fresh gnarl
Post by: deadwoodbuck on November 27, 2013, 09:11:41 AM

you have so many really nice pictures...do you put one down every year?

Title: Re: Fresh gnarl
Post by: boneaddict on November 27, 2013, 09:29:33 AM

Thanks, yes I have tagged out for the last 30 years in Washington.

Title: Re: Fresh gnarl
Post by: boneaddict on November 29, 2013, 07:20:02 AM

I ran into this buck three times.   I'll get some more pics of him up.   These photos came on our second encounter.   I shot it up.  He had just ripped up a tree and had all sorts of stuff in his eyeguards.   He had a very hot doe and they were seconds from breeding.   If I remember right, there was a decent sized two bothering him, but that didn't really matter.   

The first time I saw him is was just before the sun dipped down.  There were rays of soft light still coming in the trees.  I was worried I wasn't going to get any photos of him.   One of them turned into MAY for this years calendar.   It was a full frame shot, at what, 50 feet or so of him coming around a tree hot on a doe, and the soft light from the sun highlited his antlers.   CLICK...click, and his eyes caught me and continued on without interruption.   She was also hot.    I was hoping hed hold still so I could worry less about blur.     She got nervous and went out of site over the hill through a laurel patch.   I think I posted that pic on here, if not I will add it.  I know I took a couple of him standing in the patch with not much but antler sticking out.

Title: Re: Fresh gnarl
Post by: boneaddict on November 29, 2013, 07:23:40 AM

This was from the same session as the pics above

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Title: Re: Fresh gnarl
Post by: boneaddict on November 29, 2013, 07:31:53 AM

This was him in the first session.   Now the interesting thing about this was I came back the next day to this area as it is one of my favorite buck areas.  I usually get one great buck here every year.   Well, I came through in the morning and there was a different buck here working.  He had funky antlers and was injured with what looked like a broken him.   I don't think I have posted any pics of him yet.  I will.....  I climbed up the mountain, and on my way back in the late afternoon, I happened to kind of look behind me.  Something I have learned to do a lot, and I had walked past OCTOBER for this years calendar.   That was about an hour before I took the above gnarl pics.   Gnarl here had moved down the ridge about a mile and had set up shop with his group of doe.  Mr October had his group of doe and I guess stayed in this exact locale.   I posted a pic of him earlier in the fog.  That fog photo was taken literally 20 feet from this photo.   

Here is gnarls leaving session one.
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Title: Re: Fresh gnarl
Post by: wahunter21 on November 30, 2013, 11:46:03 PM

Awesome pics! Gnarly bases on that guy.