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Most pattern-able public land buck?

IkemanTX

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This has got to be the most consistent, pattern-able mature buck I have ever seen on public land.

I wasn’t able to hunt this season because i spent almost all of deer season in a boot. After I had finally recovered enough, i pulled cameras late last week and found a pleasant surprise… this gorgeous 10 spent dang near all season at one of my setups.

I put a mock scrape in during the early summer. Nothing fancy, just a length of grapevine cut and hung a few feet off the ground. I scraped the ground bare underneath it and peed in it and walked away. Hung a camera over it in early october right before i jacked up my ankle. Man did it sure concentrate his travel through this area. It seems like every time he came through, he swung in close enough to smell it. He may not have gone all the way into it, but always seemed to be within 20 yards of it. He showed up on this camera 45 times…

of all the years to not be able to hunt….



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12/16 what happened to his jaw? You see that?

I have 2 guesses…

1) he took an antler tine to the jaw and got an infection.

2) he took a snakebite to the face.

Im kind of leaning towards the snakebite, because there doesn’t seem to be any skin damage while the boil is swollen.


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Not me personally but the world of utube there are lots of examples of deer with big abscess/cyst.
Some are like a big zit/boil and others are like an injury packed with food...
 
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