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Offline MattySuto

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Still Seeing alot of Velvet
« on: August 19, 2013, 12:28:32 PM »
Anybody got any pics of Elk/deer hard horned yet?  Kinda Late. :dunno:... last year i had pics of deer hard horned beginning of july?

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Re: Still Seeing alot of Velvet
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2013, 12:37:38 PM »
I usually see hard horns in the last few weeks of Aug. first week of Sept. on the whitetail and I have a spike blacktail I see daily in my yard and he is still full velvet. I'm pretty sure that's normal.
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Re: Still Seeing alot of Velvet
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2013, 12:46:08 PM »
Mostly velvet still for the deer, and that's normal.   I see about 50% on my hunts in the high country the first week of September.

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Re: Still Seeing alot of Velvet
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2013, 12:48:50 PM »
Posted this on another thread but checked my camera yesterday and had this bull thrashing a tree in a effort to loose the velvet.
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Re: Still Seeing alot of Velvet
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2013, 03:24:23 PM »
I'm on the Eastside and as usual. The bucks just disappear from the cameras for 10 -14 days and returned hard horned. I haven't had a buck pic in 7 or so days.  They move from the big open sage flats and fields to the canyon bottoms where the trees and brush are heavier/thicker to rub their velvet off.

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Re: Still Seeing alot of Velvet
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2013, 03:26:43 PM »
I'm on the Eastside and as usual. The bucks just disappear from the cameras for 10 -14 days and returned hard horned. I haven't had a buck pic in 7 or so days.

I like that!  That means they should be done coming opener Sep 1st  :tup:  I rather kill a bear and Elk in Sep and wait till late season for deer but I'm not picky  :chuckle: :chuckle:

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Re: Still Seeing alot of Velvet
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2013, 03:43:00 PM »
In NE WA the last few days of August and first week of September when majority of whitetails rub off

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Re: Still Seeing alot of Velvet
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2013, 03:47:17 PM »
Anybody got any pics of Elk/deer hard horned yet?  Kinda Late. :dunno:... last year i had pics of deer hard horned beginning of july?

I would love to see a picture of a hard horned buck from early July.

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Re: Still Seeing alot of Velvet
« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2013, 04:56:31 PM »
Anybody got any pics of Elk/deer hard horned yet?  Kinda Late. :dunno:... last year i had pics of deer hard horned beginning of july?

I would love to see a picture of a hard horned buck from early July.

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Re: Still Seeing alot of Velvet
« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2013, 09:56:50 PM »
Earliest whitey I have ever seen hard horned was Aug 11

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Re: Still Seeing alot of Velvet
« Reply #10 on: August 19, 2013, 10:05:14 PM »
i saw a good buck come to my food last week with full velvet.havnt seen him since.
down the road at a permission i have the guy tells me theres a nice 4 point that is hard horned but i have yet to see it

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Re: Still Seeing alot of Velvet
« Reply #11 on: August 19, 2013, 10:29:08 PM »
This is a couple of different bulls, you can see the first one in velvet on the 11th and then on the 13th he's got bloody velvet hanging. The second bull is hard horned on the 15th. They sure look smaller without the velvet.

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Re: Still Seeing alot of Velvet
« Reply #12 on: August 20, 2013, 12:00:01 AM »
It is amazing how much apparent mass the velvet adds.  We are all velvet here still.  I think it is the last week of August when they usaully peel here.

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Re: Still Seeing alot of Velvet
« Reply #13 on: August 20, 2013, 05:53:19 AM »
The second bull is hard horned on the 15th. They sure look smaller without the velvet.

I have video of the 5x5 sparring with a bigger bull on the 12th. Both are velvet free.




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Re: Still Seeing alot of Velvet
« Reply #14 on: August 20, 2013, 05:15:31 PM »
Anybody got any pics of Elk/deer hard horned yet?  Kinda Late. :dunno:... last year i had pics of deer hard horned beginning of july?

I would love to see a picture of a hard horned buck from early July.

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