Have not had many deer this year. So we got a little excited! No bucks! An eight pointer is around the area though.
Taken three weeks ago in the front yard.

This one was this afternoon, eating a carrot.

This afternoon. Look to the rear of the picture.

Zombie doe! Sept. 2009

Taco, great pix but one question. Are those Christmas lights on the column in the first picture?!

Kind of! LOL! They are clear and we actually use them in the summer.

Looks like you might not need those fancy deer stands. Good Luck.

I saw a deer with antlers today, he was looking in a bird bath , maybe thinking about getting a drink.

This one was really gray, I mean really gray.

what up with that ?

The deer here change colors through the year. As the leaves are changing they are dark brown. Right now with the leave down they are turning grey.

Thread drift, I realized that when I look at a picture of a deer the first thing I see are the vitals to see if I would have a shot....anyone else do this?

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Originally posted by Jeff Yarchin:
The deer here change colors through the year. As the leaves are changing they are dark brown. Right now with the leave down they are turning grey.

Thread drift, I realized that when I look at a picture of a deer the first thing I see are the vitals to see if I would have a shot....anyone else do this?

I have actually taken my rifle out and put the crosshairs on them, in the yard.

Taco, we are fortunate to be able to hunt 'in our yard' up in the mountains. Our property backs up to 6,500 acres of undeveloped (so far) land. Our deer are small due to the large population of deer and the mountainous territory. We have a bunch. Other than a couple of months of hunting season they are a nusance up here. They eat everything and are brazen.

Last summer a doe walked up a few feet on my neighbors deck to eat flowers from a window box in the middle of the day. The box was on a bathroom window. My neighbor was using the bathroom.

They are ususally a nusance here too. This last winter we had record snow fall and it seemd to "kill" off some of the herd. Did not have the numbers in our yard this summer.

This deer season which opens tomorrow is bucks only, with very few antlerless permits given. The past six or seven years we could take anything with our tag, then purchase extra antlerless tags.

they are beautiful animals....if they didn't taste so good i'd probably not shoot them

start taking some does and the bucks will have to move more