Unexpected pic this afternoon….

[redblood]

This is on a farm my family owns. It not where
I live, but about 6 miles away. I have hunted it twice and have hunted the big farm beside it twice this yr. I have run trail cams on this farm since July as well as the farm beside it since August. Probably have pics of 30 different bucks on it, only 2 have interested me but i havent really pursued them so virtually no hunting pressure. Then today at 3:03 i get this pic. Lol, certainly never saw this one before. Im just amazed that 4 cams running 5 months and i get a tame deer that i have never seen before. Obviously hes safe with me even if he didnt have a collar, but i find deer movement intriguing and the collar certainly id's him as a new deer.Im fine with never shooting another buck, but im captivated by their travel patterns. They never cease to amaze me.

This pic was taken in a 3/4 acre creek bottom foodplot.

 

[13pt]

Wow!! It wasn't until I acquired at 3,700 acre lease in west TN and managed it for 9 years that I learned just how much bucks range and even change territories. So many examples, but I killed a muzzleloader buck one morning at 10:30 am that had made an appearance at another camera 2.5 miles away at 10 pm the night before, and he was coming from the opposite direction when I shot him. Never ceases to amaze me how much this guys travel…especially during the rut.

 

[Bass1090]

That's awesome! Cool pic for sure

 

[redblood]

Wow!! It wasn't until I acquired at 3,700 acre lease in west TN and managed it for 9 years that I learned just how much bucks range and even change territories. So many examples, but I killed a muzzleloader buck one morning at 10:30 am that had made an appearance at another camera 2.5 miles away at 10 pm the night before, and he was coming from the opposite direction when I shot him. Never ceases to amaze me how much this guys travel…especially during the rut.

Id expect it during the rut, but not in January. He was chasing a doe however (it appears)

 

[redblood]

This pic was taking 2 minutes earlier

 

[Hymie3]

Could that be a tracking collar instead of a pet deer?

 

[JN]

Is this like a banded duck and after you harvest it you get to call in and see how far he traveled?

 

[clwg97]

One year in Missouri I got this one on my trail cam. I had a picture of him a year earlier as a spike and I couldn't tell what was on his neck. Looks like he is someone's pet deer around there.

 

[Ski]

How bizarre and unexpected.

 

[redblood]

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One year in Missouri I got this one on my trail cam. I had a picture of him a year earlier as a spike and I couldn't tell what was on his neck. Looks like he is someone's pet deer around there. View attachment 163198

Thats not a collar, thats a fashion accessory lol

 

[JN]

Thats not a collar, thats a fashion accessory lol

Yup he better watch out or Wyatt Earp and the boys might come after him

 

[Bullit]

That's somebody's baby.

 

[TNlandowner]

hope that fella makes it... would be cool to learn his history

 

[killingtime 41]

I'd honestly think that's a tracking collar. And possibly somebody or a group is doing some kind of study. That don't look like just a dog collar. Somebody is tracking his movements.

 

[redblood]

I'd honestly think that's a tracking collar. And possibly somebody or a group is doing some kind of study. That don't look like just a dog collar. Somebody is tracking his movements.

Its possible i guess.

 

[MUP]

Cool!

 

[cecil30-30]

Looks like a regular collar to me. The bulky part is the buckle and left over collar.

 

[TRIGGER]

Owner had had him pinned up. They let him out thinking the rut is over and he won't travel far?? Time to play with the ladies.

 

[redblood]

He was back right before sunup this morn

 

[Hduke86]

Wait until that collar gets hung up on a fence or tree that he rubs against and he either gets choked out or stuck and a pack of coyotes or wondering dogs gets him. The "owner" wouldn't be so thrilled if that small buck was sparing with another and the bigger buck got its antlers stuck and both of them died from it. Some people have zero common sense.

 

[younggun308]

I know someone who rescued an evacuated fawn that now thinks it's one of the dogs. Unfortunately it is a buck, so once the thing sprouts antlers, it'll be a danger to people. They put a collar just like that on its neck, but they're in a different part of the state from you, so it's not the same deer.

 

[huvrman]

My buddy's daughter-in-law shot a "pet" buck someone had collared when it was younger. The buck had outgrown the collar, which was cutting into its neck, which was infected, and puss filled. They literally had to peel the collar out of the deer's neck. Deer was skinny and likely would have died from infection and malnutrition soon. Folks who think they are protecting their "tame" friends are condemning them to a certain and untimely death.

 

[redblood]

In this area, there isnt any reason to collar them. Low hunting pressure ans very selective hunters. Virtually no chance of him being shot as a 1.5 or 2.5 yr old. More risk from the collar itself

 

[redblood]

I figure someone thought season ended jan 1 and let him out

 

[backyardtndeer]

That is interesting. Not something I have ever seen here, but did once see a deer with a collar at my wife's grandparents place in the ozarks before.

 

[Gravey]

Never seen one with a collar other than pics. I'd be concerned with it being too tight as he gets bigger.

 

[RobDooley]

I believe that buck belongs to Jimmy Houston.

 

[redblood]

I believe that buck belongs to Jimmy Houston.

Isnt he a fisherman?

 

[RobDooley]

yes, he is a fisherman and a hunter. he has a lot of pet deer on his place in Oklahoma. He has them all named. they come up on the porch and eat out of his hands.

 

[X-Tennessean]

I saw one on my farm one year as small 4pt with a regular orange dog collar and that was the only sighting of him. Come to find out guy about 3 miles down the road has raised 3-4 throughout the years.