Buck photos

[D.C.U.P.]

This is my first attempt to post photos here. If it works out, here are a few pictures of some MI whitetail bucks I got from my Moultrie digital trail camera.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g71/dcompo/velvet11pt.jpg

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g71/dcompo/heavyrack.jpg

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g71/dcompo/6n7pts.jpg

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g71/dcompo/2littlebucks.jpg

[Hooked115]

Those are some awesome pics, looks like you have plenty of antlers walking aorund your area. That first one is a bruiser, is the browtine on the left split or not? I can't tell for sure. Anyway awesome pictures.

Joel Evenhouse

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Joel,
That velvet buck is an 11-pt for sure. I think he has a split brow tine like you said, but it may just be a little nub. I never did get a closer look at him, but I did get video of him and snapped stills from that. This guy was in Lenawee County, the others from Chippewa. Here he is 100 yards from my treestand only 2 days from gun season. Man, I was so close to tagging him!!

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g71/dcompo/11pthiding.jpg

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g71/dcompo/11ptheadingout.jpg

[uptracker]

Wow, nice bucks. I hunt Chippewa Co. almost exclusively. Glad to see there's some success in your neck of the woods! Do they usually stay up by Brimley through gun season, or do you find em' moving south most of the time?

[D.C.U.P.]

Wow, nice bucks. I hunt Chippewa Co. almost exclusively. Glad to see there's some success in your neck of the woods! Do they usually stay up by Brimley through gun season, or do you find em' moving south most of the time?

uptracker,
They migrate to various places around the Brimley area. There are quite a few that yard up along the Waiska River all the way into the Soo. However, they don't usually migrate until late December, especially if you're feeding them.

Other large yarding areas are just south of Brimley all the way to Kinross and Rudyard. Then, of course, you have the huge cedar swamp which goes from Hulbert to Newberry.

Here's another photo in which a couple of little guys are feeling each other out a bit. BTW, I never killed any of these bucks. I only saw a few of them during shooting hours, but passed them up. I got a total of 15 different bucks on that Chippewa Co. camera.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g71/dcompo/spar.jpg

[uptracker]

Interesting stuff. I usually sit on a migration trail southeast of Barbeau during muzzleloader and see a ton going south. I know the yarding areas in Kinross and Rudyard you're talking about...at least a few of them. And the Hulbert Swamp. I almost got lost in there one year.:D I would have thought that you're deer would want to get far from the lake come Dec. 1 with all the cold wind etc.

[uptracker]

Hey, you're not the one who shot that monster over there a couple years back are you? Sorta look like the guy in a photo i saw.....2003 maybe?

[D.C.U.P.]

uptracker,
I wish I could tell you it was me! I'm not even sure I know the story you referenced. Was it a local? If so, I would have heard. Maybe it's just my suspect memory failing me yet again.:(

[uptracker]

Supposidly it was a local. It was in the Evening News. A 21 point maybe? with a spread of 18"-24"....it was huge. May have even been 2000-2002. I don't recall anymore either. I just saw the pic again last year though.

[2tundras]

I think your talking about Greg Collins, SSM. 35 yrs old, shot his first deer in 03 I think. 15 or 16 point, 20 something spread. Was in a couple of papers. Borrowed blind and gun.

Thats probably who your thinking of.

[D.C.U.P.]

I think your talking about Greg Collins, SSM. 35 yrs old, shot his first deer in 03 I think. 15 or 16 point, 20 something spread. Was in a couple of papers. Borrowed blind and gun.

Thats probably who your thinking of.

Yeah, that may be him. If I'm not mistaken, he was hunting down near Barbeau at a camp I've visited a few times. I know him a little. Seems like a nice enough guy.

However, Tim Spence got a 21 point with his muzzleloader behind his house over on Forrest Side Rd. a few years back, too. That may have been around '99 or so.

[NorthJeff]

Great photos!

[Bucky]

cool makes me want to go out for deer right now!!

[chrome_steelhead]

Nice Pics!

I just read something about moultree having sizes or something like that. The numbers were 100,200, 300. Which moultree was that? Hopefully this is a legit question, lol

Thanks

[D.C.U.P.]

chrome_steelhead,
I forget which one it was. It took a crap on me in late November while on a tree in Chippewa County, though, so I sent it back to Moultrie and they sent me a brand new 200.

[chrome_steelhead]

Any new pics since then???

[D.C.U.P.]

Nope, I took it down at that time and never got any more pics.

I put out a salt block down here in Jackson County this spring, though, and plan on setting up my camera come July or so, when the antlers are starting to show some good development.

Of course, I'll also have one set up in Ontario come early August when I start baiting bear. That should prove interesting!

[grand river cat addict]

During the rifle season of 2003, while hunting in Paradise, a guy showed me a picture of the buck he shot of East West road . It was an absolute monster of a deer. 200+ dressed at least 20" spread. Took up the entire bed of his pickup in the photo. Said he saw a track crossing the road and just followed it darn near all day but eventually caught up to him. That darn picture keeps me going back there every year since!!!:dizzy:

[D.C.U.P.]

grca,
Yep, there is potential for some bigguns in that area. Not a high density, but lots of opportunity to grow older and bigger. One could track a deer a long ways up near Paradise and never see another hunter or cross private land due to the huge areas of public land and light hunting pressure.

There is a relatively decent number of moose, too.

[uptracker]

I've done decent up that way myself. Still haven't seen a moose up there, but a ton of tracks. I was thinking about getting back by Sheephead Lake this fall and try to call one in with a camera in hand!

[yooperkenny]

... hunting in Paradise.... That darn picture keeps me going back there every year since!!!:dizzy:

There is nothing quite like hunting in Paradise! ;)

Nice pics - Thanks for sharing, DCUP

[Gilbey]

Man....very nice pics. I'm more and more impressed with the Moultrie.