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2007
Scouting logs and on the spot pictures -- by Robert Hoague
Scouting Logs
& PIctures
For: | 2006 | 2005 | 2004
| 2003 | 2002
| 2001 | 2000
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Scouting For
Deer
July 24 Deer Pictures
The highlights of the deer that wanted me to take their pictures
this morning! GO...
Deer VIDEO - From This Morning
A short video of 3 of the bucks interacting that I saw this
morning. GO...
July 20 - Early To Rise Pays
Off
I got up early today and sat in the dark
where I took pictures of the bomber wide 8-point earlier this week. Four
bucks came through around official sunrise but they were still shadows.
Once they were gone two more bucks showed up. I glassed them, it was still
very low light, and I could just make out the rack on the closest. It was
the bomber 8 and he was marking low limbs on an oak tree 38 yards from me.
The other buck was marking limbs on some smaller trees and I couldn't make
his rack out clearly but what I did see was looking
good.
Anyway, I choked my camera down and apertured the heck out of it in
an attempt to get enough light and take a picture of the wide 8 but there
just wasn't enough light yet. Fortunately he started browsing on some
plants and I saw him better as the light improved.
He walked by me on the left and I couldn't see him any
more. No pictures. But it was a ripping experience. Man I'm still
pumped.
Got 'em
I hoped to see the wide buck from July 17 but didn't expect it to
be the next day. But it was. GO...
A New Day, A New Place, A New
Buck
A new buck. And a big July rack. GO...
July 16 Bucks
Close up pictures of bucks this morning. GO...
Kings Of The Deer Weed - July
10
Growing daily. See the bucks in velvet on July 10.
Close Pics Of Another Wide
Buck
This morning I took pictures from a new blind and got lucky.
Another wide buck comes up and I get some close up pictures. This is July
6. GO...
July 4 Buck Pic
The July 4 Wide Buck. GO...
July 1 - This Morning Pics
The nicest way I know of to begin the day on July 1. Just me, the
black faced buck and his friends. GO...
Bucks, Over The Weekend
Two bucks in velvet are looking good on the last weekend in June.
GO...
Four Days Later
Holly cow! We've got a crop starting all ready. GO...
Food Plot
Time
It's food plot time. Thanks to my neighbor Dale my Deer
Weed seed is in the ground. And the events of the next 36 hours were
all good too. Food Plot & Pics
My Knees
Are
Still Shaking!
He was close. And
hungry
too. GO...
Sleepy
Morning
- But Lots Of Action
Ok, so I dozed off
awhile.
But when I woke up it was buck time and my camera was smiling. GO...
Bucks
Will Be
Bucks, Even In June!
Sunday
the bucks were all over. To
The Pics...
What's
Up With The Bucks On June 5?
When do bucks start
being
aggressive to does? How about on June 5? To
This Morning's Deer Pics...
What
Do Bucks Look Like Now?
Remember Monday,
when I
said me and my camera were gonna look for bucks. We found some. GO...
Still
got their
antlers In March?
Yep, sure do. A big
9-point
beds down in front of my CamTrakker and we get more March deer pics. GO...
CamTrakker
Deer PIcs
Fire In The Sky
The
red sun looks like fire in the sky. Today we have both bucks and does
in
the area. GO...
Buck
Pics Over The Weekend
Next Year's Bucks
Mid February and the
bucks
are loosing bulk. Their necks have thinned down. But they still have
their
antlers. Here are some I saw this weekend. GO...
Nice Hair-Do ... Guy!!!
 
The deer of February
3 &
4. The "nice hair-do" buck, "broken horn", "son of the Freak" and
others.
Pics taken on the CamTrakker. To The
Pics...
Scouting
For Deer 2006: a photo journey
Sept
25:
Now,
the bucks have shed their velvet and are showing off their
2006 headgear to the other bucks and the does. Eventually two bucks
lock
antlers. GO....
Sept
24:
Generally you don't see many fawns for weeks after they are born.
Today a few showed up. GO....
A Fawn
In Late
August
Seeing
fawns is always special. This morning one came by to get its picture
taken. Enjoy...
On Your (Hind) Feet!
Aug 16 - A doe
charges a
buck and he rears up on his hind legs and stops her. More...
Scouting Time Again - August
14 - 15
Yesterday afternoon
I put
out the CamTrakker and we're taking deer pictures again. We caught 3
different
8-pointers and other deer. GO...
Showing 'em Who's Boss
On the morning I
left for
the 2006 Bear Hunt I took pictures after daylight. The bucks are
starting
to act like bucks. GO...
August 3 CamTrakker Deer Pics
A doe almost runs
into a
buck. Just one of the pics taken last night by my CamTrakker. GO...
The Treestand CamTrakker Pics
I definitely was
anxious
to see what kind of action was going on in front of the Treestand I
hung
the CamTrakker on. Here
We Go...
Monitoring A Treestand
This afternoon I
went to
a tree where I've had a treestand for several years. I mounted a
CamTrakker
to the tree right by a treestep. GO...
July 24 & 25- CamTrakker
Pics
Some of the deer in
the
pictures were 40+ yards away. Even at the longer distances CamTrakker
caught
the deer as they walked by. GO...
July 22 Pics - Two sets of pics
 
Kick back and watch
this
light colored 8-pt.GO...
And later two 8-points came by. GO...
2006 Freak & July 9-pt on
July 21
They're looking good
today
... and walked right up and let us see 'em close. GO...
Today's Scouting Pictures
A doe approaches and
the
July 9-point puts it in her place. To
10 Pics... and To
8 more Pics...
Here's Where We Are, As Of
July 19
A close up, full
screen
picture of a 9-point and a possible son of the Freak buck. GO...
July 18
- Watching
A New Angle
After
moving the CamTrakker to watch the south we get more buck and doe pics.
GO...
July 17
- Back
To Scouting
What
were the deer doing on July 16-17. GO...
July 2 -
The "In
Your Face Buck"
 
The "In Your
Face"
Buck (L) and the best pics of 187.
Daybreak
this morning: a buck came up and took an interest in my CamTrakker
game camera. The camera caught him up close. GO...
And
the CamTrakker took 187 pics yesterday evening, last night and this
morning.
Wow! So I put up a couple dozen pics so you could see the jist of what
happened. GO...
June 30
- Almost
100
 
Last
night and this morning my CamTrakker took almost 100 pictures of deer
that
moved through the area. Here are 35 of them. To June
30 Deer Pics...
June 28
- Daytime
Buck
Today
I worked through lunch and got a nice surprise at between 12:30 and
1:00.
Apparently my fall food plot must have some volunteer forage growing
because
a buck walked up and munched a little bit before continuing on his way.
To
The Daytime Buck Pictures...
June 27
- Just
Like We Were There!
Absolutely
the best pics yet. Just like we were there. GO...
June 24 - The First Fawn
Seeing the first
fawn is
always one of the highlights of the year. There is just something magic
about it. This afternoon I was walking around and happened up on a
fawn.
I knelt down by a tree and got my camera going.
The fawn was a very
young
one with a small body and long spindly legs. Very cool.
It walked in
front of my
position and I sat still, moving only the camera lens and pushing the
take-a-pictue
button.
Then it turned my
way and
hurried toward me!
Surprise! It stepped
into
the shade of a tree 15 yards from me and promptly laid down.
The fawn carefully
looked
around the area.
Obviously at ease,
the fawn
continued to look around. Twenty minutes passed, and...
and the fawn stood
up and
walked away. I never did see the moma doe. This was really a special
fawn
sighting.
June 23 - CamTrakker Pics from
Yesterday
Changing the
CamTrakker
trail camera's settings to 20 seconds between pictures resulted in 46
pictures
from late afternoon yesterday until early morning today. Here are the
highlights.
This young buck
is the first
one by the camera.
A different
buck comes
by a little later. An eye of another deer is in the background.
After it is pitch
dark more
deer walk through the area, these are does.
A young buck,
possibly the
one in the first picture, walks closer to the camera.
Not a young buck,
walks
through. He was probably 25-30 yards out but the CamTrakker picture is
good enough I zoomed in on him to check him out better.
An hour later the
CamTrakker
picks up this buck. It doesn't look as beefy in the front shoulders as
the other buck.
The sun is up and
shining
on the CamTrakker lens and making a little glare at the top of the
photo
as two deer meander through the area.
June 20 - Getting Ready, Step
One...
Most years, my food
plot
area on my property gets steady deer traffic. Lately I've seen deer
pretty
good but not on my place. So to see if there is traffic on the home
front
I put up a CamTrakker digital camera to let it check the place out.
I strapped the
CamTrakker
to a tree with the Rope Ratchet. The camera's back side has holes that
are perfect to put the Rope Ratchet hooks in, so I put them in and
pulled
the Rope Ratchet tight. (This is the CamTrakker Digital 6.0 game
camera.)
 
The picture below is
the
area that the camera has under surveillance. The food plot will go in
the
open area between the camera and the two trees. Now I need to get the
seed
for the plot and then get in touch with my neighbor Dale to see if he
can
till it up like he did last year.
June 21 - Surprise!
Not expecting any
results
yet, I checked the camera. There were pictures! I loaded them into my
laptop
and had a look. They were night time pictures.
This is the first
one. Night
pictures are a challenge for any game camera, usually the animals in
pictures
that are in range of the flash are flooded with light and have bright
spots.
The CamTrakker pictures were definitely better than what I've
experienced
before.
I zoomed in
until
the picture was full size and examined the buck on the left. A long
body
with decent length antlers for this early in the year.
Forty minutes later
two
deer were going the other way. The lead one's antlers look like it may
be the same buck.
He gets closer.
(Pic below.) That's
what
I'm talkin' about. This buck's main beam is still growing horizontally
and adding width to his antlers. This is the beginning stage of what
could
be a very nice 2006 rack.
Holly cow, we are
off to
a swell start already. On the second day of scouting, right out of the
starting blocks, we've located a buck that just might grow a big rack.
This afternoon I
changed
the time delay on the CamTrakker so it will wait only 20 seconds
between
pictures. Deer are walking by and I don't want to miss any of them --
which
is one of the big pluses about using digital. I've got a half gig
memorystick
in the CamTrackker unit and it can take 250 or more pictures on one
disk.
Scouting
For Deer 2005: a photo journey
Scouting begins
right after
the season ends. By March most of the bucks have shed their antlers.
Then
in May their velvet antlers make their first appearance. And from June
thru August their headwear is growing. In September the velvet dries up
and goes away. And it's all here in pictures and scouting logs, from
the
day the Freak buck lost his weird antlers, to the first fawn sighting
and
the sightings of the Double Kicker buck. To
Scouting For Deer 2005...
  
The Freak in August,
the
Double Kicker Buck intimidates a young buck, Wild Turkey pouts
 
The Double Kicker
buck's
rack gets bigger, the first fawn sighting.
Scouting
For Deer 2004: a photo journey
Scouting for deer
in 2004
began with a planting a food plot for the wildlife and making water
where
there isn't water. And continued until the day before the season began.
To
the 2004 Scouting Logs and Pictures...
  
  
Scouting
For Deer In 2003
Scouting Logs
& PIctures
For: 2003 | 2002
| 2001 | 2000
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Experience the deer growing throughout the year, from the first fawns
& first buck in velvet to the
  
   
  
Scouting
For Deer Season 2002: a Photo Journey
Scouting
Pics & Notes From 2002: May,
June & July |
Scouting
Pics & Notes From 2001: June
&
July | Aug | Sept
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Fathers
&
Sons & The Licking Tree (Wallpaper)
 Fathers
& Sons: Notice the difference in the size of the two bucks.
Here
is a wallpaper for ya. (1042x768)
(800x600) (640x480)
   
Scouting
Pics & Notes From 2001:
June
& July | August | September
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Find
it here.