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Goats would be sweet to shoot!

We had a fantastic day in the woods today. I'm too tired to tell all the stories but I popped a couple grouse, had 100's of trail cam pics, and we found two 1/2 racks off 10pt bucks. Both are nice sheds, but one dwarfs the other. A true MN monster buck.

Here is the only pic I got from my stand. A new stand and a new camera.


Second stop was much more interesting.

BIG!



Woof?


Buck deer...CLOSE

I know, and I appreciate that.

Some day I'll make it.

That's a really nice bear, Tom.

Two guys in Chickenbuck shirts out on the western plains.
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could be a book for sure, I'd buy a copy. interlace some of Dave's stories, and the ones Pam has to remind him of
Lord knows there are plenty of pictures to go along with it.

I'm not good at guessing weights on bears, but I know this is a bigger than average, especially for the public land it wanders.

There are only pictures of him/her on one night.

That camera is on what I thought was a deer trail, but it appears to be more of a "game trail" beacuse of all the animals that were on it.

Pretty cool, and the reason I now have 3 cameras instead of the one I had last year.

I don't know what you boys and girls are seeing in the woods, but there wasn't much at all for rut sign. I saw a scrape, which was there on the weekend of 10/6. I put my trail cam on the trail that is near the scrape.

We put miles on in the woods yesterday and found no other scrapes an 0 rubs.

We saw lots of rubs this weekend.. I got 3 right by my stand.. The first one i saw was thursday, then on Saturday saw two more... Between my dads stand and mine saw another 2 more.. Hes got a scrape by him little old leaves in it...On the trail camera i got 3 differ bucks by me......

We have some good signs around where we hunt. The locations are going to make stand placement decisions a little difficult.

Hard to see i tried zooming in but looks like a nice buck..


Were pretty excited this year lots of sign in area compared to the last 3 years... Will see what this year brings....
These are refurbish camera from Natchez that you guys made me buy...

I like me some Truff Cam turty fives!

I also have a 46 (See pics above). The quality of the picture on the 46 is much better imo, but the simplicity of the 35 can't be beat.

Noduck, that first pic is a hellova buck!

Looks like two different bucks for sure, possibly 3?

Love that first one especially.

The 46s are doing well for me. I'm having a great time with them.

My four year old son asked me today: "Daddy, when I'm a little bigger, can I go deer hunting with you? We could both catch a deer and I could have my own knife to make mine into food with you."


Life if freaking GOOD!!!!!

Me and the boy spent the youth hunt weekend out and about,but never saw a thing with hair on it,not even a squirrel.
Time to get ready for rifle season now,armed with the knowledge that the boy is an absolute fidget monster! Looks like I need to buy some sort of blind material to keep the boys movements concealed.

Yep its 3 differ bucks i got more pics but there not the greatest...
That first pic deer does look nice i know some guys would think its no big deal, but up in northern Minnesota big woods, big swamps no food plots. We get excited when we see something like that.......

Take him!

I took my boy on an actual hunt last year. He was 6. He eats it up now.

He came to the camp when he was four but I thought he was too young to come on a hunt. I'll be taking him on the 3rd weekend for sure, possibly the second too.