Trail Cam Pics

[fishnhuntnboy]

Here is one with his head turned so you can see how wide it is. Hope this helps

[PerchJrkr]

he looks half way respectable? 130-135 at least im thinkin maybe? hmm after seeing that second pic i'd say he could go 140

[Quackaddict9]

I would guess around 125-130, a few more pictures will help. The best is to kill him and get a accurate score!

[tedl]

He does look bigger in the second photo!! I agree "the best is to kill him and get and get an accurate score"

[fishuhalik]

I'd say closer to 120, still a very nice buck!!

[PerchJrkr]

way low i think... how much do you figure the one in my avatar would score?

[PerchJrkr]

Take a wild guess....

[sticknstring]

The buck in the trail cam is pretty hard to score... would easily make the book though.

Perch - nick buck... I'll play. Upper 140's gross... mid 130's net. Hard to see what he sports on the ride side.

[96trigger]

I'm going to agree with SNS, he is right around 135. He won't deduct much but I can't see his right side too well, I'm sure he got a hefty deduction for that extra point. He has pretty good mass, but lacks some height. Man, he the more I think about he, probably netted high 130's grossed in the 140's.

[Jeremy Donabauer]

Perch- 143-146 gross.

[fishuhalik]

I'd say around 145-150 gross

[fishinmajishin]

I'll guess green/net 144 and change.

[Roofer]

if your way up north i would say wolf

Plenty of Wolves just outside Hinckley. I have seen a fresh deer kill in early spring and trail cam pics of ours with collars on them. A few were white. Once the wolves move in, the deer herd up and head deeper in the woods.

Hooks... May be heading up Sat. to set a trail cam out and work on some shooting lanes.

[fishuhalik]

I've found the opposite, it seems when the wolves come the deer come closer to people.

[00rowe]

gross 145, net 132

[PerchJrkr]

did some of you guys cheat and look back at least year!? lol ya its 145 6/8" gross green score. i dont know.. i look at this buck and some of these other ones and they look alot bigger to me anyway and people are thinkin 150 maybe so i just thought it would be interesting to see. I know alot of people thought Vister's buck would go 150-160 and i was thinkin high 170's and what did it turn out to be in the mid 180's? its always a lot easier to get a score when its in your hands

[slimngrizzly]

Guessing the score is always the fun part! Of course you cant know until you have your hands around them but its still fun to wonder. I think a lot of people just look at a frame and compare it to one theyve seen before to come up with a score, there are A LOT of variables! A 150" buck with 8 points for example, is one H#LL of a lot larger rack that a 150" with 12 points.

Some of these other buck may be framed bigger Perch, but yours has a nice 6 point side with big brows and a nice G-4, that really helps your gross. But take a 143" 4x4... It will be framed way larger than yours, when actually the score is actually nearly 3 inches smaller....

im just blabbing....

[mrklean]

very nice deer

[vister]

thanx for the backup perch! guessing scores low is the way to go, then if they score higher, u are even happier. but yeah, as seeing how deer are scored, the variables are endless, really, 2 somewhat similar racks can score quite differently.

a sleeper in the scoring department is the colomn H. circumfrence. added just over 40" to my bucks score. so bony racks and ones with mass, though rather symmetrical to each other, will be quite different.

another side note, after a month, my inside spread has shrunk 1/2 an inch. nothing else has changed much, but dang it, they do dry. probably cause he still has a little velvet, so the antlers were fresh in the first place.

[Jeremy Donabauer]

vister I have seen guys put a mechanical device between the spread to limit shrinkage. It didn't look like were trying to increase it but just wanted to limit it. I think even a 2x2 cut to the perfect length would help. The bucks that I have seen this on were barely over the 170 net mark and the guys wanted to save as much as they could to make the magical 170 after the 60 day drying period. Not sure of the legality of though.

[Shack]

Nice deer F&Hboy and PJ!

Check the cam today after letting sit since Sunday AM and no bucks yet. One of them I did get, was this one. Some one is still hanging with mom .

[fishuhalik]

Awesome pic! Not gonna be too long before mom has to cut the cord on her babies and find herself a fella.

[vister]

the taxidermist mentioned placing a 2x4 to help maintain the spread. however, he also mentioned that people have done that in the past, but the skull plate fractures during the drying process. let me tell you, the last thing i want to have happen is them buggers split in half. i'll take the 1/2 inch loss knowing everything is solid. I'm not even really concerned about the score of it i guess, although talking about it still gets me excited. But i always wanted a wide, heavy rack, on a deer that is, and i got it.

[eyehead]

Here's a dandy 8pt from a couple weeks ago.

I seen this young guy the other day and it almost looked like it has three main beams.

[bassNspear]

i saw a few photo cams last night from a friend Via email, and there was two different bucks, looks like nice 8 and a 6, both has a arrow sticking out of it.