Yeah, his gut is what told me it was him without even seeing the antlers. We’re thinking I screwed up last year on age…he’s definitely 5.5+ now, lol.

How many deer y’all see?

Cool pic of them bedded. 2 racked bucks and 1 headless deer.

Thinking of putting a lock-on in there, or just leaving it alone and give them a place of rest. It’s a place you can drive right by and they don’t move. It’s surrounded by some THICK brush. It also will hold water when it’s really wet.

Still a little slow here until corn all gets picked but seeing a few

Oh he’s nice! Nice brows too!!

Guess they use the same beds, lol.

2.5. What do I win??

Appreciate the cell camera suggestions. Got 2 of the Reveal Gen 2 on sale for $79 a couple of weeks ago. They’re pretty addicting. I can see myself with 10 more.

Still using my card cameras. Big 10 and this buck coming through morning and evening like clockwork. Hoping he’ll keep that pattern for 6 more weeks, but I doubt it.

His running mate.

Those some good looking deer!!! Hope they stick around for you!!

WB, how many cameras y’all run on the place you help manage? 2500 acres (I think) you mentioned?

Man I should start hunting in Kansas! Hardly any deer left where I hunt.

I have 6 out in my area, my son has 3, the manager has about 10, another hunter has 5. Through all of them we have the entire plantation covered, lol. I just post mine and my son’s pics. The other hunter has a buck who’s main beams turn down that makes it look like a double drop tine. We have some good deer, but we also have the opportunity to let’em grow. Some of these bucks I would’ve already killed on public land, lol. Our county just has good genetics and a bunch of like minded hunter’s around as well. We do have to shoot a ton of does every year though. I’d bet my 27 year old son has killed more deer than Jbyrd and Bucksandbears combined. Notice I didn’t say hunted, just killed. Believe it or not it gets old after a while.

Just as well everyone else does :grin

I hunted Kansas 8 straight years for turkeys and it was always the last week of season…end of May. I was always in AWE of the bucks we’d see in velvet and what they looked like then. We’d discuss what we thought they’d become on the trip home, lol.
And I never realized y’all had as many quail as you had. At that time of year they are paired up and I was flushing pairs every 150yds it seemed like!

How long ago was this? Late 80s early 90s when Crp was just starting was the height of quail population in my life time. My dad talked about back in the 60s being the golden years of quail hunting in Ks

Probably about 2011 - 2018 or 19. I was really in awe of the quail, turkeys, and dove y’all had. It would take us longer to drive out than kill a 2-3 man limit on turkeys.
And at that time, we’d call in coyotes about every other setup for turkeys. We’d also see tons of skunks and coons. Saw my first and only badger out there too. He wasn’t nice! I was heading to a tree to set up and he wanted the same tree…he won and I decided to do a big circle to get another approach on the gobbler, lol!

I finally got a good one on camera. But I probably won’t ever get eyes on him in real life. He might have been bumped into the area by wolves.

Pretty cool looking rack! Maybe he won’t be wolf turds by the time your season opens!!