Trail Cam Pictures ... 7.24.09

Steve and Neighbor Mike went up to KY leases Friday and hung stands and swapped out cards on the trail cameras. They got some really good shots. We spent most of Friday night downloading them. Then Steve spent Saturday morning/mid-day deleting the bad ones. We usually get a lot of the same deer and LOTS of racoons. We also have black birds and nothing shots. Anyways, its really fun to see what you've got on them. After we download them and weed out the bad ones, we put them in Picasa (cause it's the GREATest), so we can view them full screen. I noticed a few things when I did this that we didn't know about. Also love on Picasa that you can add text. Makes keeping up with our different deer a little easier.

I'll point them out:

When this pictures was full screen I noticed the deer in the back. You can't really see it too well, but it's there and what's weird is that in the next shot it's in the picture and the Skinny 8 has already passed. This camera is set up on a trail and guess who's stand it on it? MINE! and its only a 12 yrd shot! I'm pretty deadly from 10 - 18/20 yards, so I should do good on this. Steve was happy to get these shots because it just shows that the deer really use it, since there was no corn down at all to attract them.

We all know that I'm a turkey junkie, so to see this moma BEARDED turkey with poults is pretty cool. This turkey is legal to shot because she is bearded, but really... why? Other than it's really cool to see a bearded hen. We have one that lives around us and I've seen her in the fields, but never while hunting.

This is Tall-Wide 8 .... he's got a very nice rack, even if it's only an 8. He'll be a good deer next year for sure if nobody gets him this year.

More turkeys .... TOMS and JAKES! This is Paint Brush Tom ... looooook at that beard. KILLER! I have to say, if I even see a turkey during bow season, I'm game to try and shoot one, especially this honking huge bearded TOM!

This is Kicker 10. We see him a lot at this spot. Sometimes alone, sometimes with a male friend and sometime with a lady friend. We also discovered while viewing this full screen, that he has 10 fully developed points and one "kicker" that comes off his left side browtine... pretty cool. Here's another picture of him.

So, I won't get to use the leases much .... but it's fun to see what's up there and we've still haven't found the deer that made the freakly huge tracks in the blog entry below.... still waiting on that one.

Steve had me shotting today out of the stand. Getting more comfortable being up there on that little platform. Hope I get a shot of at least a nice doe this season! We need some meat in our freezer!

Thats all for now. Blog ya later!