Had this 8 show up today.

Anothah nice one!!

WB,
Ya'll still feeding peanut splits?

That's a great location in that oak hammock to have a feed station...clean and shady.

My feed areas are natural feed areas. Both oaks and Beauty Berries. I’d put up cameras to see what was using the areas and then decided it was worth starting to supplement feed the spots.
My hog spot was picked just because of location and we’ve seen hogs travel through there. It’s a lower area which gives me a higher vantage point for sniping.
Plus my spots in the drains are a lot cooler than the open pines, lol!!

And yes, feed peanuts about all year. I will throw corn out every now and then, but mainly when hogs show up. I figure the protein in the peanuts would be a good supplement for the bucks and does alike. Already getting pics of fawns feeding. Fast fit fawns outrun predators, lol.

Now I have a 10pt and it’s not the Spilt G2 buck…




I had a 9pt last year and wondering if this is him this year.

Couple more from last week.

Nice pics OK!!

I left this camera set over the winter aimed at our sauna building. This is just a sample of what came by. Lots of bears and fox. I particularly like the flock of six ptarmigan. I think there might be a couple of wolves also.

Sure going through lots of bait

Cool pics waggler!

Seeing a lot of fawns down here as well.

The issue with baiting is you feed everyone, including non targets.

Here’s one for y’all. They saw this buck last year and figured maybe an injury so they passed him up. They found a shed of the deformation and thought no way he’d survive based on the amount of bone that was lost.




But, apparently it’s genetics because he survived.

WB,
That was caused by an abcess in the antler pedicel and surrounding skull area.....sometimes due to excessive antler rubbing characteristics and then bacteria infecting the buck's skint up pedicel area.

It's not genetics.

It will get progressively worse each time he sheds. It will be that buck's doom.

Hopefully his doom will be a kids trophy!! And if that happens we’ll get a Euro mount for the child as well.

That's a good one to take out.

Spotted this deer as a fawn 2 years ago. This was him last year.



And this is him this year…

He's a cool looking feller!

Wanna Be, those 2 bucks are neat! Are you going to let the one with pedicle damage get mature and see what he turns into?

Probably not…we’ll pattern him and set up a ladder stand for a kid to shoot him. Or anyone that hasn’t shot a buck yet. May save him for CJ, but he’s already shot a couple bucks. Contrary to some beliefs that we’re “raising deer” for antlers, kids pretty much have free rein, anything from spots to 200” is fair game when it comes to kids.

Here’s the video from ‘22 when I first saw him…