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2023 Trail camera thread

Dang! I've got cameras out, getting some pictures. Nothing noteworthy. Where are you that a buck has antlers like that already? I sure hope not mid Michigan or I've got a LOT of work to do lol
 
I'm in Kansas. Camera is about 100 yards from my back door. Unfortunately I can't hunt anywhere close besides my back yard and they don't hang around during the fall.
 
I've got a few cool pics to share. Anybody else have cameras out?View attachment 85228View attachment 85226
Holy brow tines Batman.

I have two deep woods cameras out that I just replaced the batteries in. Those and a few others will be left to soak till the fall or possibly all year.

pretty soon I’ll drop a few cams that are easy access so I can check them throughout The year without making disturbance.
 
Yes I have cell cams out nothing too noteworthy yet. But I’ve been focusing on turkeys pics right now.
 

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I'm in Kansas. Camera is about 100 yards from my back door. Unfortunately I can't hunt anywhere close besides my back yard and they don't hang around during the fall.
So the camera is just there to torment you…!
 
Yes, unfortunately. I am good friends with 2 of the guys that hunt right around here so it's fun to talk to them about the deer that are in the area. Plus I like to watch the deer and know what's going on, I watched a doe and fawn back there during breakfast this morning.
You seem to be doing just fine !
 
Where are all your guys velvet pictures? Post some up!
Nothing great but you wanted velvet. But up until two days ago I thought this kind of growth was average to normal progression for “decent” antler growth. I know otherwise now!! I was looking at a tract of hunting property that just recently went up for sale. It is so thick I could only walk through about 200 to 300 yards along its northern edge. It was after work and supper so it was getting to be key movement time. After startling a gobbler on a somewhat grown over and brushy field adjacent to the property I’m looking at, I saw the distinctive reddish hew of a summer deer coat about 75 yards away from me next to a cluster of trees. I threw my binocs up…… boom! I couldn’t believe the velvet rack I was staring at!! Beyond its ears already, noticeable brows and deep distinctive main beams with 2 inch tines at least already. Bases looked massive. I couldn’t believe it. He was with another buck that look like these other bucks I have picks of below but not the same land or deer. I think I found a colossus!! I was facing northeast. He wind was from the west he was northeast of me. He didn’t see me but was m thinking the other buck caught a whiff. Anyway. Because I don’t live in a big buck state, I was very surprised at what I saw….. you dudes in Iowa, Kansas, MO, Indiana, WI, OH, etc… what stage of antler growth should we be seeing right now? This thing looked like a mid July buck already!!!
 

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I can’t get that deer out of my mind!!! It’s tainting my analysis of the property though. My buddy and I are walking the property Sunday afternoon. I’m not kidding when I say I need to take a machete to get through all the multiflora rose patches.
 
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