The Weekend Plan - Failed
Posted By
Bill Winke
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9/30/2009 12:00:00 AM
This past weekend I set out to shoot the Backyard Buck with Jordan, our daughter at the gun. However, her schedule and the wind didn't cooperate. I don't remember having a schedule when I was 11 - except to run the fields with my dog and shotgun shooting any bird unlucky enough to get in my path. Things are different now.
We finally got the right wind and the right opening in J's schedule to give it a go last night. We saw three does, three fawns and a small 1 1/2 year old buck. It sure seems as if all the mature bucks we were seeing this summer have vanished. I am certain many area still around, they are just laying low, moving at night.
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This is a buck we named the Big 6 last year. He was already old then. He is a beast of a deer that will make a unique trophy. He is one of the few mature bucks I have gotten on the trail cameras - even at night. |
I guess Plan B is simply to wait until the rut and hope for the best. I was sure hoping to determine that he is still around and go after him early - I may just assume that he is still there and give it a whirl anyway - probably next week. I am sick of feeding corn to coons and crows in the hopes of photographing a ghost so I pulled those three cameras. Just because a certain buck doesn't show up on the corn doesn't mean he isn't there. Not every deer will go to the corn pile at a time of year when the Midwest is virtually one giant food plot.
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| Here is the other highly mature deer. Just look at his head and you can tell he's old. There are several other mature bucks in that part of the farm that never showed up in front of the camera. |
