I will get some snow pics this afternoon, lol.

Wow you guys are the best! I'll take all that want to ship down as long as you pay the shipping. :ROTF1::ROTF2::Thanks:

Great pictures Sam.
Man your deer got it made, ours are struggling to survive with all the snow.

Todd

They are almost like pets. We have about 12 of them that wander around our place.

Here are a few we're feeding behind the house.

Cool deer pics, Todd!

X2!:beerchug:

Todd

Nice to see you taking good care of next years dinner. :beerchug:

:beerchug: Nice Todd, Yeah I may hunt deer but I also feel for them in the winter months.

Eric, that's how it is for me. They give me so much enjoyment throughout the year and they are a respected renewable resource to our family. If it weren't for us hunters there wouldn't be any wildlife for anyone to enjoy, hunters and non-hunters:beerchug:
You have to feel for them, especially with a winter like this.

I agree 100%.

X2.

Nice photos zippy

NIK,

winter kill
 

Well it sounds like Mother nature has reared her ugly head. Got news today that some deer in our area are dying of starvation and stress of the yards. Figured it would be soon. But to top it off, now with the thaw and rain last week we now have a crust on the top of the snow, just enough to hold the weight of a coyote.
Spring can't get here fast enough to save them now, malnutrition and snow dept and the yotes are going to take their toll. Nature can be very ugly at times.

Indeed, the soft snow gone will now give advantage to the yote. :bash2:

NIK,

Sad to hear Todd. They are saying we are getting the polar vortex back next week too.:angry:

Sorry to hear about the deer, Todd.

still winter here
 

Is it ever going to end?
Winter sucks!
I'm thinking everything has had enough!

Steaks & loins,

Steaks & loins,

Yummiest.:biggrin2:

NIK,

Nice deer pics Todd! Hopefully, it is going to end soon!:bigthink:

No snow here. Noticed yesterday our grass is starting to turn green.

Got my '12 mount back in early January. It turned out pretty nice

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Filled my tag on the first day again this year in the same field. Not wall hanger like last year, but it was a pretty cool day. I watched a nice half rack early. He re-appeared an hour later about 100 yards away and decided to bed down. He got up quickly and started double timing back up the hill. When I scanned down with my bino's, another (full racked) buck was chasing. They lowered their heads and engaged. When the full racked buck stepped back, I shot him. He was a young 8. Crazy thing was when I shot, he jumped up and landed on his head and broke off the one side. This is what I found when I got to him.

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps2ff3467b.jpg

Since the end of deer season, I've been hunting with my trail cams. It's a lot of fun. Here's a few pics over the past 2 months.

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...psb4f5bb40.jpg

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps3f77ebb7.jpg

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps3a4f6dc0.jpg

Great photos

Nik

Great pictures, congrats on the buck:beerchug:

Very nice! :beerchug:

happened to me
 

I shot this buck at 3:00 pm on first day. left antler fell off dragging it home. seen 2 half racks before I shot this one. and wife shot what she thought was a doe, but was a buck that had dropped it's antlers. had talked to other hunter's that seen the same thing happen.
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Nice pics guys!:beer2:

Willy - we have a bunch (probably 6+) different half racks on game cams. My buddies and I are of the opinion that there are too many buck in our area and they are beating the hell out of each other. The buck I shot had an injured eye from fighting and we think that the antler that broke off was due to an injury from fighting also. The deer in our area are just starting to lose their antlers now. Anyway, nice buck.

There is something known as "buck competition" and it does come from having more bucks than does or an equal buck to doe ratio. That would be the goal of every hunting establishment. But unlikely.
An possibly you don't have a higher age class of bucks that get most of the breeding rights established during the pre rut. So the subornment bucks are competing for the breeding rights.
I wish we had that problem in our area, we have the opposite here. To many does and not enough bucks to do the breeding, then when rifle season rolls around the majority of the adult bucks are killed and the 1 1/2 year old are left breeding.
Or bucks this year lost their antlers in late December and early January, where the norm is late January into the early month of March.

Congrats on your buck!

My Ohio deer. Biggest one to date for me No big by any means but for a guy from NC it's a nice'n. Ha ha

Try again. Picture didn't come out in the last post

Great deer,

NIK,

Congrats on the buck!:beerchug:

Nice buck! :beerchug:

Nice looking deer, what was the age on that feller?
Congrats:beerchug:

Nancy's tom
 

The wife got her turkey opening day (Wed) 9" beard, 1" spurs and
weighed 22#:beerchug:!

Nice turkey Todd! Tell Nancy congrats!:beerchug:

X2!! Still looks cold there!

Congrats to Nancy, Todd!

Nice sized bird. Gonna make for some goooooooooooood eatin',

just love those tail feathers spread out like that,
:beerchug::beerchug::beerchug:

Nik

For those that never hunted turkeys, its by far a challenge of the hardest.