Trail-cam pictures.

[Griz44Mag]

Surprised to see two buck with shed velvet already on August 29. That seems a bit early, though with literally many hundreds of buck photos over the years I have seen it rarely prior to September.

Also a good chance that the trail cam clock did not get set. I am guilty of that on occasion.

 

[Yewbender]

Spikebuck, the month maybe set wrong. I moved my camera to another location and a buddy put his extra camera up so i can see what is coming in since i only have 2.

 

[deerstalkert]

 

[Brokennock]

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Someone has been eating well....

 

[deerstalkert]

Someone has been eating well....

they have over 50 old apple and pear trees no one else does anything with, just on my place. a thriving apple production in the twenties, died out during the depression.
the trees are scattered throughout the area. the bear and deer love them.

 

[RobWheeler]

We used to have around 30 cameras out on an 800 acre lease. While I'm traditional in hunting, I agree Robby, the pictures are fun to see. I cannot say that a camera has ever helped me bag a nice buck except, perhaps, to be more comfortable letting smaller bucks go because I knew some bigger ones were around.

Here's two of my favorite pics. You never know what you might capture.

BTW....There are no moose in SE Minnesota except very rarely when one goes on a walkabout from the NE part of the state...and there aren't many there anymore either! So imagine my shock when I saw that picture! This one even decided to walk right down the main street of a small nearby town! Last I heard, he had made it almost to Des Moines, IA!

OK, one big whitetail buck pic! This one wasn't on the lease. It was about 100 yards behind my house on my own property!

Monster very nice.

rob

 

[Tom A Hawk]

What do you think this critter by the tree on the left is? Fisher?

 

[appalichian hunter]

No pic is coming up

 

[Brokennock]

What do you think this critter by the tree on the left is? Fisher?

Fisher

 

[excess650]

Fisher for sure.

 

[excess650]

I didn't have ANY good bucks on camera all summer. It wasn't encouraging, but they started to appear in September, and then almost exclusively at night.

 

[excess650]

this one is interesting in that it has kickers off the back of both sides

this big 8 is still in velvet September 9th

 

[Tom A Hawk]

Boys will be boys...

 

[Tom A Hawk]

Any educated guesses as to this guy's weight? Seems to be visiting the corn field every night.

 

[Brokennock]

Any educated guesses as to this guy's weight? Seems to be visiting the corn field every night.

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Without something for reference and/or a good broadside picture, I'm guessing in the mid 300 pound range. Maybe a little less.

this one I'm estimating mid 300s

Whereas I'm figuring upper 400s for this clown.

 

[appalichian hunter]

Might go 300 lbs, young bear look at his ears they look large a older bigger bear ears will look shorter.

 

[Nor Cal Mikie]

Anybody ever see BigFoot?? Read a story on one of the forums about a guy with a KILLER DOG that wasn't afraid of ANYTHING.
Left the dog in the truck for a very short time, came back and the dog had tore the manure out of the truck trying to get out to get at something".

 

[appalichian hunter]

Without something for reference and/or a good broadside picture, I'm guessing in the mid 300 pound range. Maybe a little less.

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Whereas I'm figuring upper 400s for this clown.

You sure you do not have two bears, the black and white pics are of a bigger bear than the colored pic.

 

[Old Hawkeye]

Without something in the pics to give scale to the bear it is nearly impossible to make any reasonable guess as to size & weight. Relative ear size tells me these bears are not monsters by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[Brokennock]

You sure you do not have two bears, the black and white pics are of a bigger bear than the colored pic.

Definitely two bears in two locations. I thought I indicated that in my wording, sorry if it was misleading.

The smaller bear is in a nearby state forest bear one of my deer stands.
The big bear is behind my house.