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My mountain cam had the same thing
Two week burst then nothing
Two week burst then nothing
It's a hoss for sure. Every year we get giant deer that show up outta nowhere for a time or two then disappear. Camaras everywhere but no sign of those deer. As though they fell in a well somewhere. I've got a close friend who is an avid mtn hunter. We've had this conversation time and again. His boy kilt a giant old mountain buck on a brow last year chasing a doe. My buddy checked its stomach and to my surprise with acorns everywhere it had 2 acorns and the rest of his belly was full of laurel leaves! That got me to thinking. Most of these mountain bucks live in the laurel thickets on steep sides. I believe most of 'em bed bout halfway. Most of the year they get up and feed without ever leaving cover. They can eat bout anything really. A 4.5-7.5 year old buck is a completely different animal from all other deer. Theres a very small window of opportunity to kill 'em each year. Gotta make hay while the suns shining! Hope you get that rascal jbogg!
He loves his ovaltine.Bogg likes inviting competition.
I used to keep a camera in a river bottom at the base of the foothills. Every year i would get pictures of big bucks during the rut. Never had picks at any other time.
This one 2 years in a row. Never a daytime pic.
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Well said. I always check to see what the bucks I kill have been eating. The old ones never have grass it's always laurel leaves with acorns if there's any. Lots of times it's straight laurel. Outside of the rut, these old bucks don't leave laurel thickets during the day. I'm convinced that some bucks won't even leave a thicket during the day during the rut. Almost got a shot on one a few weeks back as he ran a doe through a gap. The buck needed 2 more steps but instead he stopped his chase and turned back the way he came. Areas with huge vast country of laurel makes it near impossible to kill a old buck. Areas with more hardwoods and less laurel makes them a little easier to hunt . There's a switch that flips when they get 5+It's a hoss for sure. Every year we get giant deer that show up outta nowhere for a time or two then disappear. Camaras everywhere but no sign of those deer. As though they fell in a well somewhere. I've got a close friend who is an avid mtn hunter. We've had this conversation time and again. His boy kilt a giant old mountain buck on a brow last year chasing a doe. My buddy checked its stomach and to my surprise with acorns everywhere it had 2 acorns and the rest of his belly was full of laurel leaves! That got me to thinking. Most of these mountain bucks live in the laurel thickets on steep sides. I believe most of 'em bed bout halfway. Most of the year they get up and feed without ever leaving cover. They can eat bout anything really. A 4.5-7.5 year old buck is a completely different animal from all other deer. Theres a very small window of opportunity to kill 'em each year. Gotta make hay while the suns shining! Hope you get that rascal jbogg!
I guess you meant to hide him in the Bear forum till seasons over?
I agree. We need a mountain hunting forum, but then we already have one. My daughter thought it was weird I posted my buck in the bear forum and not the deer forum, but I explained it to her, and after that, she spent some time reading the threads and I think she understands now. This is a tight bunch of good people that understand how mountain hunting really is different from flat land hunting.That’s an interesting observation, but honestly I never thought twice about where to post this. The bear hunting forum probably needs to be renamed “Mountain Hunting”. I’ve always said it’s the best little neighborhood on GON.