Handheld pics of 8pt

[jacobj12k]

I was checking trail cams, scouting and double checking my stands and had two extended up close encounters with deer. I watched two fawns get out of their beds 30 yards in front of me and then after only a couple minutes, they slowly started coming back toward me. They closed the gap to 25 yards before stomping, blowing and running off. I blew back and stopped em in their tracks and confused the heck out of them.

Later I was getting the leaves out of my ladder stand and thought I heard a grunt. 5 minutes later I was putting my trail cam SD card in my laptop to copy the pictures over and this buck came running up. This time I had a tree between the deer and I. He closed the gap to 15 yards looking all around. He trotted off doing figure 8s with his nose to ground . I had my old camera with me and snapped about ten pictres, but the auto-focus must have been screwed up by the brush

They are getting rutty...I can't wait for next week end.

[walleyehunter80]

yup i would invest in a new camara, cool encounters though!!! fun stuff

[soldoncass]

Cool....just a thought....that's about how my pics turn out when I have "buck fever". No autofocus can counteract the shaking.....ha. You SURE you weren't "excited", more than you thought????

I jumped a buck out of his bed this week...they do get the blood pumping faster.....

[TrophyEyes]

I was heading out with my son trick or treating tonight in Edina and a young buck pushed 3 does within throwing distance. His head was straight down and didn't even looking at us. It is definitly starting.

[jeffreyd]

do you all define an 8 point by the total number one one side or as a whole? if it is actually 4 on each side, here that would be a 4x4 just wondering thanks

[Flying_Fort]

Out here we count all points so a typical 4x4 out west is an 8 pointer in the midwest. So a nontypical 4x5 out west is a 9 pointer here.

[jeffreyd]

that is what i thought i would love to see a 8 x 8 that would be a massive animal. good luck hunting folks, i will dream of being in the tall trees just waiting. does anyone sell venison to retail that you know of?