MeekAndMild
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I was wondering if anyone else had a buck in their backyard that they've been following for a long time? I have one that I've been tracking, stalking and never quite connecting with for 4 years. Sometimes when I leave the woods I'll find his tracks where he has walked up to just out of visual range and then walked away.
I call him Bullwinkle. I've seen him four times and smelled and heard him a lot more. The first sighting was 3 years ago and he was about a 6 pointer with heavy horns, then I saw him once 2 summers ago when his horns were at the clubbed stage. The third time was yesterday and the fourth today and it looks like he has kept growing.
His home base is about 5 acres of mixed cedars and small pines with tiny meadows, a scattering of bearing-sized oaks and a million briers and brambles. This is part of a bigger swamp, maybe 30 acres total, but I seldom see his tracks outside of his little area. There are a couple of other big deer which live on the surrounding hillsides, but none as big as him.
Many deer would run into the next county if you jump them but Bullwinkle just fades into the next thicket. He knows me and I expect that he knows I'm the one who sows the green fields and puts out the corn in late winter after deer season. So he stays close.
Now this is the kicker. I have built a couple of enclosed blinds for the time when I get too old to climb the hills and wade the swamps; I like to sit in them some afternoons and read, contemplate life and watch the other, lesser deer. His favorite bedding spot is some crowded little pines about 30 yards behind one of these blinds, on the side with no windows!
I call him Bullwinkle. I've seen him four times and smelled and heard him a lot more. The first sighting was 3 years ago and he was about a 6 pointer with heavy horns, then I saw him once 2 summers ago when his horns were at the clubbed stage. The third time was yesterday and the fourth today and it looks like he has kept growing.
His home base is about 5 acres of mixed cedars and small pines with tiny meadows, a scattering of bearing-sized oaks and a million briers and brambles. This is part of a bigger swamp, maybe 30 acres total, but I seldom see his tracks outside of his little area. There are a couple of other big deer which live on the surrounding hillsides, but none as big as him.
Many deer would run into the next county if you jump them but Bullwinkle just fades into the next thicket. He knows me and I expect that he knows I'm the one who sows the green fields and puts out the corn in late winter after deer season. So he stays close.
Now this is the kicker. I have built a couple of enclosed blinds for the time when I get too old to climb the hills and wade the swamps; I like to sit in them some afternoons and read, contemplate life and watch the other, lesser deer. His favorite bedding spot is some crowded little pines about 30 yards behind one of these blinds, on the side with no windows!
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)i have nothing against canadians. haha but i do have his sheds from the last three years
