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BuckGrunt

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Blount County
[size]I checked my new trail cam yesterday and noticed this pretty nice buck entering my food plot. I never saw this one during hunting season.





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Then I noticed (a little over an hour later that same night) a blurry picture of the deer running out of my food plot. It looked like it had already dropped its left side antler.













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Well, to beat it all, about three hours later that same night, I had another picture of that first buck returning, without his left side antler.











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Based on his direction of travel, I figured he probably lost that antler in my food plot. So I went up there to check this afternoon and sure enough, it was right smack dab in the middle of it.

This is my family property that I've hunted all my life, and nobody has ever found a single shed. But this year was the first year I had ever planted a food plot, and I can not even begin to tell you how much it has benefited me and the deer.




BTW, I'm not very good at aging deer, so if anybody wants to tell me what they think I would greatly appreciate it.

Here is another shot of the body on that deer.

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I would guess 3 1/2. Big chest, boxy in appearance, belly is not as flat and tight as younger buck. Looks like a good one that made it. Pretty cool to find the shed too. What kind of camera is that? Is it one of the inferred or flash? I am looking at getting one.
 
westtntoms said:
BSK,

What do you think on an age of the first buck?

Very difficult to field-judge age at this time of year. Bucks are long past their peak body musculature of the rut, and the aging technique was designed around peak rut musculature. But looking at the depth of that buck's body, I would say no younger than 3 1/2 and possibly older.
 

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