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Post by rockrookie on Sept 21, 2011 8:21:34 GMT -5
these are some of the regulars visiting the wild apple tree in my yard downloaded 9-18-11   i probably have 100 pictures of this buck   1st timer  another regular . i hope you like these . --paul |
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Post by tandl on Sept 21, 2011 9:08:48 GMT -5
He heard the camera in the second pic , or eating a apple ;D they love apples and trees . i been planting apple tree . last few years, the deer have been pruning them for me  |
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 21, 2011 9:52:29 GMT -5
Looks like two and three year olds-nice pics..
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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 21, 2011 10:35:07 GMT -5
Yum, venison.
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 21, 2011 14:52:20 GMT -5
Don't forget the peppers,onions and mushrooms too......... |
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Post by grayfingers on Sept 21, 2011 15:17:33 GMT -5
Best eating at 2 years or less...but 3 is good too. :drool: That 4x5 (near as I can tell) looks well fed! Looks like you have a good buck to doe ratio.
Bill
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Post by rockrookie on Sept 21, 2011 18:55:39 GMT -5
Best eating at 2 years or less...but 3 is good too.  That 4x5 (near as I can tell) looks well fed! Looks like you have a good buck to doe ratio. Bill the bucks are high on the buck to doe ratio . at least at the apple tree . right now , the buck are chasing does (AWAY) and yes they will taste great i'll have the potatoes , mushroom & onions ready . hopefully my daughter ,Lydia will get her first deer . --paul |
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Post by Roller on Sept 21, 2011 19:10:54 GMT -5
Bamby !
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Post by rockrookie on Sept 21, 2011 20:06:16 GMT -5
Bamby & eggs makes a great breakfast . ;D ;D --paul |
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Post by montanamuskrat on Sept 28, 2011 0:30:02 GMT -5
Great pictures. I like spuds with breakfast also.
Tom
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Post by stasiak on Sept 28, 2011 21:11:26 GMT -5
Ha! That's cool. The second pic it looks like it is a bit startled.
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Post by Sabre52 on Sept 28, 2011 22:25:38 GMT -5
Wow! Your whitetails are bulkier in body but smaller horned than our Texas overpopulated dwarves . I feed ours a ton of protein so they grow great antlers but they're still little bitty boogers...Mel
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 29, 2011 14:49:48 GMT -5
The whitetail we had in North Dakota were 160 to 225 pounds.......Great eating too....
They say there are deer in Oregon,but have only seen three the whole year here,so far-LOL......My brother in laws get mad when I say that..LMAO
North Dakota I seen 40 or 50 a day..........
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Post by Sabre52 on Sept 29, 2011 15:57:30 GMT -5
Just finished up the deer census here on the ranch last week. 800 plus whitetail, 330 blackbuck and maybe 130 plus mouflon/Corsidan sheep. We've just trapped and removed 30 sheep and 30 blackbuck. Maybe a few whitetail bucks on the 200 pound plus range but lots that are smaller. That's what happens when you get overpopulated and no one wants to allow hunting....Mel
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Post by grayfingers on Sept 29, 2011 16:46:02 GMT -5
Funny thing about Whitetails around here (East slope of the Continental Divide) is that when I was a kid it was very rare to see one. Mule deer were everywhere. Then in the late 70's to early 80's things begun to change. They were once mostly in river bottoms in Eastern Montana, as well as some on the west side of the continental divide They gradually moved up the river systems and into the mountain valleys. When they first appeared on ranches that allowed hunting most landowners would say " you can shoot the Mulies, but I have a couple of Whitetails around and don't want them shot." Flash forward a couple of decades, and now they have all but replaced the Mule Deer. The Whitetails took over the grazing in the pastureland and meadows underlying the foothills. Then as wealthy people moved into our area and started building their McMansions in the foothills of the mountains the Muleys lost more critical habitat. A Mulie needs space and when humans become too numerous they leave. A Whitetail will happily become a brush by day, lawn by night opportunist. And to add insult to injury, A Whitetail buck will chase and breed a Muley doe, resulting in a sterile hybrid. Muleys do not pursue Whitetail does. So now, the ranches and suburbs are filled with Whitetails, and they are too numerous resulting in the same small deer Mel has on their ranch. Now the big Mulies mainly only exist up high where the Elk hang out. An interesting note about Mule deer, they once lived in the prairie land. That is why they have the big ears, and they jump in big bounces, that was to enable them to see over the sagebrush as they ran. Back then there were no Whitetails in this part of the country. Human settlement of the land pushed them (and the Elk) into the foothills and mountains. Don't get me wrong, Whitetails are beautiful deer and mighty fine eating. I just miss the days when I first started hunting, and could get a Mulie buck like this one not too far up into the mountains.  |
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 29, 2011 19:04:14 GMT -5
Montana,my home state.....Got a nice 5x10 mulie and a 8x9 whitetail in "Musselshell" county....Great deer in that area..........My fav. is mulie deer,love hunting them....
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Post by NDK on Sept 29, 2011 19:19:38 GMT -5
I've heard that deer farms up here will get a texas buck for the nice racks they grow, and breed him with a large local doe. The theory is to get the large body with the large rack.
Nice pix Paul!
Nate
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