:Naming Deer on Your Cameras :)

[Atchman2]

I watch too much deer hunting television. They even name episodes about certain deer they kill. I'm going to give it a try. These deer are on my "Suburban" camera.


I call this one "Pronghorn". I saw him last year as a little spike.


This one is called "Ghost". I've seen him once before a year ago, but I couldn't shoot at him with my ML due to safety concerns. That is the only picture I've seen him in recently though.


This one is "Lopside". My first year hunting there I saw him, but didn't get a shot. His left antler back then was just a straight spike, but the other side was normal.


Got to be named "Blue Velvet" after the song.


I call this one "The Dominator". Every time I see him he is chasing other deer away.

(Okay I get bored, but it is pretty cool to catalog deer you've seen over time.)

 

[chubacabra]

We had a spike last year that my wife named "spikey mikey". We agreed not to harvest him and let him grow. He would come into the back yard and even chased a neighbors cat right up to our back deck while the wife was standing on the deck. Spikey Mikey was chasing a doe during muzzleloader season right by the wife. He ran the doe up the ridge away from my wife and another hunter on the next property shot him. She was pi__ed!

 

[bowriter]

I name all the deer I see. Some I call dinner, some I call other things I may not be able to print here.

 

[HuntFish714]

Back home where I used to hunt I had all the bucks named. We had the "brothers" that were twins and matured together, exact same body features and exact same racks every year as they grew and hung out together till the fall, had lots of pics of them together. Another I called "scar face", my first encounter with him was when he was a spike and he walked right threw camp the day before opener (he always had a tendency to torture u), staring that year I had him on camera on a daily basis until one day he re appeared and looked like he got the crap beet out of him along with claw marks across the left side of his face which damaged his eye. (Hints the name). Also starting that year and the 5 years following I missed a shot at him every year, it didnt matter how close or how far away he was my arrow would always miss as if he had a protective shield around him. I shot many bucks out of there in that time frame but he was my arch rival and apparently he won when I joined the army and moved away. I'll never forget that deer!

 

[Shed Hunter]

Only have one thats name stuck, and that is the warrior buck. Calling him that was a given though. He was shredded from head to stomach with scars that made him look like he had zebra stripes. I named two other deer that year, but we do not refer to those nicknames anymore.

There's nothing wrong with naming deer, but unless it is completely appropriate to the deer it just sounds weird to me.

 

[barkscaler]

I name all the deer I see. Some I call dinner, some I call other things I may not be able to print here.

Good one!