I think this may be him back in 2015. He was only around at the start of the season in 2015. Think I saw him twice. I named this deer “picket fence” because of his side profile.
We are excited to watch him grow. We will have to wait and see if he gets a pass this year. As I get more pictures I will add them here
I’ll dig back through the few pictures from 2015. But I don’t have many game cam pics of him. I stumbled on this one. It was in a folder buried inside another folder
I think I only had 3 pictures that were saved. I’ll post what I have and see if you pick something out. I know you can track them over the years a lot better than most of us
Marco,
This is the only other picture I can find. And of course it doesn't show the tail very well.
We focused our search for his sheds in one part of the lease. The protein pen he is eating out of now is closer to the stand where I first saw him last year. The pen and my feeder are right in the middle of the lease. I wouldn't be surprised if he is hanging out real close to our camp.
Thanks Marco
I had a sneaky suspicion they may be the same. They act the same. The deer in 2015 was only seen the first couple weekends of the season. When I saw him in 15 he ate at the feeder for a couple minutes and was gone. That was the photo on the right side of the feeder. In 2017 that deer was seen for 2 maybe 3 weekends and never at the feeder.
In 18 he appeared at thanksgiving but was never had a pattern.
So I guess this year he will be 6.5. He will probably be on the hit list. It will be really hard to convince everyone to not shoot him. Although he doesn’t seem to pattern through the year he has been at 3 different stands over the years. And 2 of them are mine
His black hocks scream older last year too.. confounding buck to be sure.
That tail thing has me head scratching. Might check eartips.. 15 has black backed eartips can’t tell about front.... 18 has black fronted tips.. but can’t tell about back. but tail and forehead very distinctive. Both have a distinctive black neck stripe.
Went and filled feeders yesterday. To say they are hungry right now is an understatement
The one protein pen where he is been staying my buddy forgot to turn on the game camera when he changed cards last trip
So I figured we wouldn’t have picture of him this trip. We think the seed ran out and he went to another pen, where we last saw him hard antlered this spring
These aren’t the best pictures but this is what I was sent
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