Missed by 13" didn't give enough on mass and beam length.Morning TEJAS.....

Like I said, I'm not good at scoring them

That is a nice buck James

If ya’ll like the look of that last deer here is a buck with a bit more distance between the beams.



I'd be interested to see if someone could come up with inside spread on this one.

29.5

32.

27 1/4”

24.5

I think this was the thread bait stations were discussed. So I have this spot where I have dumped carcasses for a month or two now. Every carcass has been decimated since I started dumping until this week. This week I dumped 3 deer and beavers and none have been touched hardly at all. Not even by buzzards. This is the back side of a pond dam bordering a large field and a completely undisturbed head of woods. Normally plenty of coyotes, cats, fox, and other furbearers using the area. Any explanations for the sudden off switch? Rifle deer season has been in for the duration of my dumping so I don’t think gut piles are to blame

About time someone else has the same experience I have, lol. Deer, hogs, etc…sometimes buzzards might eat, sometimes they don’t. The issue is when they don’t, nothing does. Haven’t had anything eaten by anything with 4 legs all Summer including all the way to now.
Gonna definitely be following to see if anyone else has had it happened since I mentioned it before.

I’ve seen it a couple times on different properties Wannabe. Can’t explain it, but they will sit there and mummify. Funny thing is I live less than a mile away and have buzzards in my yard every day trying to find scraps I’m giving to the chickens.

Good Guess CK!

He was 27 3/8 @ 163 +

You are correct S94.

There is a lot on bait stations in the previous pages of this thread.

That is a good question.

I’m looking forward to hearing what other folks think the cause might be.

There are a lot of factors that come into play where bait stations are concerned.

Little things can make a big difference on how successful it is.

The only thing I have ever heard of that nothing would touch was a cow that had been given a bunch of meds (antibiotics maybe, can't remember).

A bait pile that nothing would touch is puzzling.

Like James, I will be interested to see what others have to say

We're back after the Ghost Buck.
He was caught getting off his bed just before twilight a few days back. Old school recon finally pinpointed his location.
We set up on him in a light rain the day after, but he didn’t show up until dead dark.His silhouette on the horizon was the only way to identify him.

The rut is in full swing. That has not changed his nocturnal pattern a bit aside from his one daylight appearance.
I’m pretty confident this buck doesn’t move one step off his bed until twilight.


He finally showed up on camera for the first time in the early morning hours.

Yesterday morning he rolled in at 5:30 am. That is a full hour and a half before daylight.



This buck has monster beams.



This morning we have a steady light rain. That’s a good thing. The deer were moving heavy at 2:00 am when I got up to start the day. That is a bad thing.

Regardless, we will be in the stand by six this morning with our nose to the wind and our eyes along the skyline.

Good luck James

Rain supposed to start after lunch here

Our rut is long passed up here

Gettem Tejas! Haven’t had a yote on bait here since 11-22. Lots of thermal road hunting here and after deer season everybody is a yote hunter. I contribute some of the lack of visits to all the activity on my bait. I have at least 8 cats, three possums and two skunks hitting my bait.
All the resident yotes are dead so when a new yote finds the bait all that movement makes them nervous I think. I like non targets on my bait as they are great advertising for yotes, but I think you can have to many in my situation. 25 yards from my shed the yotes are already nervous. Doesn’t take much for them to decide it’s not worth their time. Food is easy to get right now.

Last nights visitors.

Thanks BT.

I’m confident I know where he beds down for the daylight hours.

It’s just a matter of him moving out of his safe zone before it gets dark.

We can’t get too close to his bedroom for risk of bumping him out of the area.

If that happened we would be back to square one.

YG, the only time I see cats is on the bait when the coyote traffic is very low.


And I never get tired of seeing your contestants resting peacefully on the nice frosty ground.

That looks like a good way to spend an evening.


The Ghost Buck is still making tracks.