This is the first year that I was able to follow 2 bucks during their antler growing period. We started getting photos of them in mid May and we continue till first of August right before they rub the velvet off. They stayed within a 300 acre area between their bedding and our spring/summer food plot of soybeans, peas, corn, and sunflowers. We used 5 different camera locations to document their antler growth for this blog posting.
I am going to discuss 1 of the 2 in this blog post and I will discuss the other in a later posting.
We nicknamed this buck Mr. Potential because of the large size of his antlers for such a young age. We estimate him to be a 3 1/2 year old. We had a trail camera photo of this deer from last year shown below.
I have these pictures in an animated photo below plus I have them in chronological order with the date below the photo. This was a cool experience in which I was lucky enough to track two bucks over this magical period. I hope I can repeat it next year.
 May 28, 2010 |
 June 11, 2010 |
 June 21, 2010 |
 June 23, 2010 |
 June 28, 2010 |
 July 7, 2010 |
 July 9, 2010 |
 July 29, 2010 |
 August 22, 2010 |
 August 31, 2010 |
 September 1, 2010 |
 September 22, 2010 |
 September 22, 2010 |
 September 23, 2010 |