Trail Cam Deer-Elk-Moose Pics or Video

[Sander v.]

[fr0sty]

Finally, some deer pics.  Seems like the slowest year for this thread...

[Sander v.]

I have seen the goofy Left-antlered Buck twice from the stand.  The others are lost in the corn maze!  With opener upcoming this weekend, I hope the corn will still be standing and there will be some cover to attract a few hot does for the upcoming weeks.  Good luck to you all who will be able to head afield, I won't be able to do the MN Rifle Opener this year but look forward to the year ahead with hopefully a larger and healthier numbers.

[Notime]

I had a couple come by the last few days. It has been quiet on my camera except for the neighbors dog, a coyote and a fox.

[Lunker]

"Old news" as this is from 2012, but a cool thing happened for me today. In 2012 I harvested my biggest buck, a 14 point giant I missed with my bow before taking with my rifle. So I saw him during bow and rifle season, but never had trail camera pics of him; ever. After running into a neighboring hunter this week we got into a discussion about the past deer on the properties and as I started to describe my buck he told me he has pictures of him and had always wondered what happened to him. He pulled through today and sent them to me.

Thought it was awesome that 3 years later I finally got to see a pictures of him, and thought I'd share.

Edit: request for harvest pic. 

Edited November 7, 2015 by Lunker

[MJ1657]

That's really cool Lunker!

[pumper317]

Lunker, show the picture of the "after" too.  sweet deer!

[mrklean]

Had about 1200 pictures of these 4 bears they decided to sleep and play in front of my camera for a couple days.

[fr0sty]

Broken off 2.5 year old OTC, this is the one I told you about.

Edited November 11, 2015 by fr0sty

[bigbucks]

Really he's only 2.5?  That looks like an awfully big body for a 2.5 year-old to me.

[O.T.C.]

It's Ottertail county, many most look like him in year 2. They can look nice in the OTC in year 2 coming off the easiest winter ever recorded in some of the richest farmland in the state with killer genetics where Frosty hunts. I hunt next door to Frosty and we've shot some nicer ones then that that were 2.5 years of age as for many years in NYM, MN there was a DNR official at Gene's Standard don't know what that gas station is called anymore but he aged our deer for many years which was really interesting. Most guessed older compared to younger, we brought a brute 11 pointer once that we had to ask the guy again like how sure are you lol, 2.5 year old no way cmon, he had a dandy rack already but likely a genetic freak.

[fr0sty]

Just a guess, but I'd say 2.5  The deer in my avatar pic was a 3.5 year old based on cementum tooth aging. 

Really he's only 2.5?  That looks like an awfully big body for a 2.5 year-old to me.

[O.T.C.]

That's the beauty of OTC, by 3.5 you have something to zero in on. Where I'm currently hunting in zone 1 that deer with both sides is a head mounter lol. I'm in the clay soil with awful genetics, you're lucky to get a 1st year forkie, most are spikes in year 1. The nicer bucks on my zone 1 camera maybe score 120's and they're 4.5 and 5.5 year olds just guessing age really but the bodies would all dress over 2 bills meaning they must have some age on them. If you do see a nice yearling here he holds the potential to be a big boy and some are shot, not this year I guess though, not yet anyway. So I do APR myself and have since 1986 but APR here in zone 1 wouldn't work like it does in pure farmland country with quality genetics like OTC has. Spikes become forks in year 2 or 6's so you'd be protecting yearlings plus many of the 2.5 year olds here just because that's the deal and all the tcam years now prove it pretty well. Tech smart I'm not but I will send frosty a picture of a zone 1 buck and you'll get the drift massive body, no racks, if Frosty will load it up on here for me plus maybe my bear buddies lol.

[lungdeflator]

Thats really neat to get those pictures Lunker!  Some nice deer out there.

These are from ND, late summer.  The last one is the biggest deer I have gotten pictures of.  Came through 2 times and that was it.  Never saw him or heard of anybody seeing him.

[Notime]

He made it through the season! He is not big but he has potential. Looks like he has dropped already though. I guess I should get out and look for sheds!

[certified jumbo]

If I were you I'd go take a looksy! 

[jbell1981]

You had quite the bachelor party going on lungdeflator!

[fr0sty]

Couple favorites from my last cam pull.

 

 

[going4it]

Only have seen one on cam that has lost an antler. Anyone seeing much more yet? 

[Sinker]

Nice pictures. Good to see the ones that made it through.

[fr0sty]

I had one fully shed a week or so back.  Most are still holding both though.  

[certified jumbo]

No shed deer yet on my end.

[O.T.C.]

The bucks I saw up close last weekend all had headgear and mighty fine racks at that. 1 more month or a bit more and it'll get em going. The deer in our area(s) idk but they shed late some way into deep March an occasional April. They go into winter in such great shape likely somewhat due to the mass amount of hunting pressure keeping them bedded tight through the rut for the most part, or really the whole month of November, they cruise like crazy after dark but this isn't the 1970's where it's an all day cruise anymore. Once opener is over, not just the bucks but it's maybe more so the doeheads that keep the bucks bedded tight as paranoid as the does get with all the pressure. This losing whatever % of their total body weight is a crock in the farmland country, an occasional gaunt buck sure, our tcams disprove that ancient theory. 

PS. Our Novembers have been so mild also, I think if the rut hit with super cold temperatures maybe that was a part of it as well as way less pressure so they burned more calories up. Every buck I see after the rut doesn't seem to have lost much of anything weight wise idk.

[Bass Whacker]

Interesting pic of a doe with only 3 legs.  She's all of a sudden become a regular on camera in the last few days, and looks surprisingly healthy.

 

[certified jumbo]

This doe has been coming in for about a month.  It had its front shoulder basically eaten.  You can see where the meat was pulled off the silver skin.  It runs around and interacts with the other deer.  But man, its gotta hurt.

I'm guessing either a dog or coyotes got it pinned down, but apparently, it got loose.