Last year I got this picture of a buck holding both sides on April 15. 
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2025 Trail Camera Thread
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Slabzilla73
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Just figured if theres unbred does thats maybe why antlers are still on. Read somewhere, yrs ago, that they might keep em on late for challenging other bucks.
I think the herd is probably fairly balanced. We're in a rural area just outside town, but lots of houses on half-acre to three acre lots, and scattered patches of woods around. There's pretty much no hunting going on.
But, in the last ten years, I think our rut has started shifting to later in the year than it used to be, resembling less the traditional Midwest rut timing, and starting to take on more of a southern rut style - a little later, and more drawn out over a couple months.
This is a new one on me, turkeys on the ground in the dark.
That is interesting!
Sometimes birds will get flushed out of trees by humans or other predators. I doubt they land in another tree every time but that’s really interesting and a rare capture!
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Great, now the friggin’ turkeys are nocturnal too…….
I figured out a long time ago that a scrape is a calling card for all the critters. I've had everything from bears to skunks visit mine. Even a house cat once. lol.
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Funny story and life lesson. I shot a small doe this past season in a ladder stand 60 yards behind a friends house. Rather than dragging everything around, I brought my bow and pack back to the car. While I was dressing her, this tank walked by at 12 yards not having a care in the world I was there(10/29/24). Then here he is in January taunting me.
Lesson learned, never put your bow away.
Don’t worry, if you would have had your bow he wouldn’t have shown up
