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Jesse's 2015 Pics & Videos

He is still impressive. Yep. Kill him! Looks like the rut might be the only option given the time stamps. . . .Unless you have a good gut feeling on his bedding area. Might get lucky and slide in on a night or morning he slides in/out during shooting hours.
 
JPN said:
Man that's an awesome deer! How far apart are your cameras?
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The camera over the corn and the one with the cedar tree are right across the creek bottom from one another. I hung the camera looking at the cedar to see how they took to it being "planted" right in the middle of the wide open bottom. It also catches movement heading to the best creek crossing on that 275 yard stretch of bottom. The camera looking down the food plot at the mock scrape is
1,200' as the crow flies from the other two cams. He's most likely walking down the creek bottom, then climbing the hill so that he comes out right in the corner of the woods/food plot.

hickslawns said:
He is still impressive. Yep. Kill him! Looks like the rut might be the only option given the time stamps. . . .Unless you have a good gut feeling on his bedding area. Might get lucky and slide in on a night or morning he slides in/out during shooting hours.
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I wish we had "bedding areas", but that is such a misnomer around these parts. Deer will lay wherever they want to down here. Hippie Ridge is 50+ acres of bedding. Our main ridge line is open timber, but I've seen mature bucks plop down right in the middle of stuff very similar. If they can see, hear, smell and get the hell out of Dodge quickly, they'll lay down. He could be bedding in any number of areas, so narrowing it down is nothing but a guessing game. My strategy is to keep the does fed and coming to the center of the 130 acres I have to hunt, then work my way from the food, towards the thick stuff as we inch closer to the second week of November. The camera overlooking the 30 bushels of ear corn I dumped will be the hub and I'll work out from there. My first set out there will be high on the ridge 300' off the corn. I can see the corn and the food plot, but cover a lot of ground visually on the ridge. I hung that set specifically for access and what it offers visually. If I'm successful this season, that stand will be why. I've had success seeing a deer do something, then capitalizing on it the next time he does it. This set will allow that.
 
Without a doubt, this is Daryl Dawkins. This is the 3rd buck I have had the privilege of watching from 3 to 4 that has made a tremendous jump. Deuce went from mid-140s to 183 in 2007 and 2008. Moe went from 130s to upper 150s in 2010 and 2011, and now DD went from 130 to 160. I consider myself very fortunate to have witnessed this more than once.

 
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