Opening weekend was uneventful. I filmed a few does and fawns and this video is shown below. I would not consider this the October lull because I saw plenty of deer. Young bucks are scrapping and I even saw a few trailing does. According to our trail cameras, the big bucks seem to be moving more outside their core area but just not during the day. We did capture some new bucks at a new camera location with one really nice buck that we call “The Dam” buck because we always get photos of him on our pond dam. We got pictures of him as a 2 1/2, 3 1/2, and this year as a 4 1/2 year old. He is nice but I wish his antler mass was thicker. The area in which he hangs out does not have any agriculture and he is too far from our spring/summer food plots to take advantage of our nutrition. We are talking about maybe supplementing feeding this area next year.
 Dam Buck (2010) |
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Here are a few nice bucks in that same area.
I am not sure how next weekend is going to be due to the full moon rising and the famous lull coming but stay tuned and I will tell you about it.