#1737977 - 01/21/10 08:06 AM
Re: Question about identification
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Setterman
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Registered: 12/31/09
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Loc: Knoxville, TN
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I do not even try unless the deer has some sort of feature, defect, or marking that makes it obvious. Here is one example:
This deer has a cleft palate and I have picutres of him from the last 3 seasons. He is always in the same areas, and never shows up on any of the other 10 trail cams I have running on this property. He oscillates bewteen 2 different cams, which are about 500 yards apart. I have been seeing him since he was a button buck 4 years ago, and this year he is 3.5. At 4.5 next year he will be mature enough to harvest, but it is doubtful I will take him out. Were friends, sort of 
This is from this year:
This is from last year:
This is from 2007:
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#1737986 - 01/21/10 08:10 AM
Re: Question about identification
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Loc: Branchville
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I think he was 4.5 in 2004, which will put him at 7.5 when he was killed.
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#1738025 - 01/21/10 08:34 AM
Re: Question about identification
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Setterman
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Here is another one:
This one has been on my property for eons, I shot this deer in Nov 2004, he looked to be 4.5 years old at the time,and was a typical 8 pt. He survived the shot which hit him high as you can see, and stayed around through Feb of 2009. After that he vanished and has not shown up again.
I am 99.999999% positive it is the same deer I shot as the trail cam pics, and sighting always come from the same locations near where I hit him years ago. It was one of those weird circumstances where he went straight down and then a few minutes later he got back up and took off, leaving little blood and never to be found.
I had several chances to kill him after the initial shooting, but let him slide. If he took a 7mm to the back, and lived he earned passage. I also was able to get several of his sheds over the years.
Here are his pics:
2007
2008
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#1738043 - 01/21/10 08:46 AM
Re: Question about identification
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tndrbstr
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Loc: knox co tn
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Ouch!,...hes got a chunk gone....Its got that brahma bull look goin on.... 
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#1738058 - 01/21/10 08:53 AM
Re: Question about identification
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mathews338
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Loc: jackson co.
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great pics guys and cam pics are a must
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#1738405 - 01/21/10 11:52 AM
Re: Question about identification
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TLRanger
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Loc: Nashville
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Thanks guys........I only run one camera and only run it in early season to try to get a general idea what is in my area. I guess you would have to have many cameras and keep meticulous logs to trace the life of a particular buck.
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#1738413 - 01/21/10 11:58 AM
Re: Question about identification
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BSK
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...and keep meticulous logs to trace the life of a particular buck.
That's EXACTLY how it is done. It isn't the number of cameras (although the more photographs the better), it is the meticulous record-keeping. And even then, I may not realize I have a buck from one year to the next until I stumble across the connection by accident, while looking for something else in the data.
Some of the simularities from one year to the next are very subtle. But like snow-flakes, every buck's antlers are going to be unique in some way and these unique characteristics are often carried for life.
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#1738431 - 01/21/10 12:08 PM
Re: Question about identification
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spitndrum
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Good Thread!
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