A bachelor group tonight ... ( more pic's tonight ! )
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A bachelor group tonight ... ( more pic's tonight ! )
Saw a group of bucks in some beans on my way home ... only had my pocket size point and shoot Olympus with me ... the light was fading , but I did get some grainy shots to ID the bucks at a later date ... also saw a fawn on the way in ...
I used the wind in my favor and got a shot of them along a fence line where the bean field is narrow , only about 40 yards across ...
They slipped thru the fenceline ... I had to move around and relocate as they fed into the big bean field ... watched them till just before dark .
I'll be slipping into that spot tomorrow a few hours earlier with my good camera !
I used the wind in my favor and got a shot of them along a fence line where the bean field is narrow , only about 40 yards across ...
They slipped thru the fenceline ... I had to move around and relocate as they fed into the big bean field ... watched them till just before dark .
I'll be slipping into that spot tomorrow a few hours earlier with my good camera !
Last edited by R.J. on Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.
See Ya. ... R.J. > " Remember , Trophies are measured by the time and energy expended to get them , not the size or quantity of the quarry "
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Really nice bucks... Be carefull if you do try to get closer....I'd actually stay away from them and watch him from a distance... You already know who he is and where he lives... Better to scout them at a long distance than to try for a "better" picture and maybe bump him..... He didn't get that big by making mistakes.... Good luck eitherway... You know at least one of the big guys in the neighborhood!....
Thanks all ....
I had my wife drop me off tonight so as not to draw any attention with my truck parked there ... ( brought my good camera along )
I used the wind and scouted the entired property ( approx 500 acres of beans )
Found the mature bucks tracks and followed at a snails pace to scope out where they might be bedded ..
The main trail skirted the field ... some corn still coming up along the edges of the fields ...
The heavy buck track followed a tractor path , and wove in and out obviously randomly feeding on beans ...
Heavy trails in the tractor path leading to what I thought was the bedding area ( a shaded , treed low area ) .. just over the rise , so I stayed out and observed at a distance ( wind was perfect for me ) .
I had about an hour and a half to kill before I thought they would show , so I backed off and walked to the river ... got a nice close up of two geese preening with one lifting his leg to show off his leg band ...
Some geese flew out to feed ... so I hiked to the road and my wife picked me up after dropping my daughter at soccer ... headed in the direction of the last flight and found a field they were landing in ... that general area shows good promise for next weeks early opener ...
My wife drove me back and I slowly snuck back in for the last 1/2 hour of good sunlight .... sat down wind in some cover and watched the beans ... The bachelor group came out as the sun was going down and where too far off for a decent picture .... at least I know the bedding area now ...
Going to keep my eye on that group into September ...
I had my wife drop me off tonight so as not to draw any attention with my truck parked there ... ( brought my good camera along )
I used the wind and scouted the entired property ( approx 500 acres of beans )
Found the mature bucks tracks and followed at a snails pace to scope out where they might be bedded ..
The main trail skirted the field ... some corn still coming up along the edges of the fields ...
The heavy buck track followed a tractor path , and wove in and out obviously randomly feeding on beans ...
Heavy trails in the tractor path leading to what I thought was the bedding area ( a shaded , treed low area ) .. just over the rise , so I stayed out and observed at a distance ( wind was perfect for me ) .
I had about an hour and a half to kill before I thought they would show , so I backed off and walked to the river ... got a nice close up of two geese preening with one lifting his leg to show off his leg band ...
Some geese flew out to feed ... so I hiked to the road and my wife picked me up after dropping my daughter at soccer ... headed in the direction of the last flight and found a field they were landing in ... that general area shows good promise for next weeks early opener ...
My wife drove me back and I slowly snuck back in for the last 1/2 hour of good sunlight .... sat down wind in some cover and watched the beans ... The bachelor group came out as the sun was going down and where too far off for a decent picture .... at least I know the bedding area now ...
Going to keep my eye on that group into September ...
See Ya. ... R.J. > " Remember , Trophies are measured by the time and energy expended to get them , not the size or quantity of the quarry "
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Boy that is some bachelor group!
Look's like a good "crop of Deer" along with the Soy bean.
Really get's the old blood flowing for a hunt.
Look's like a good "crop of Deer" along with the Soy bean.
Really get's the old blood flowing for a hunt.
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Micro 315 - 410 gr. Zombies/Lumenoks
Micro 355. - Punisher-Zombies/Lumenoks
Arrowmaker - Retired
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a bachelor group of deer
R.J. I must have missed the directions to that field of beans. Could you give them to me again.
Be the kind of Woman that when your feet hit the floor in the morning the Devil says "Oh! crap She's up"
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