Thread: Bucks tearing up the trees!

I got to see a nice buck Tuesday do this in the daylight at 60 yards away, but unfortunate for him it was the last time he fenced the forest as he walked straight over to me and was harvested with the bow. Cool shots. I am in E TN.

Great stuff, seen it a couple of times. Makes the heart rush up a little bit don't it. Thanks!

Very nice series of photos!
I never get tired of this stuff.


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nice young buck that will be something in a couple of years if he lives that long. love to watch them do things like this or work their scrapes or tend a doe.

to better understand deer is to get on a large deer .
that buck is not rubbing ,but in fact working a scrape .
scrapes get visits from all the deer in the woods at one point or another .
a good scrape find is worth its weight in gold during the breeding season for sure
KABOOM is the word .

Ketchn is 100% right! There were lots of other pics of does and small bucks visiting that spot. I found a new big fresh scrape today......moved my camera. I’ll be checking it later on in the week.

I do have this nice 10 point coming at night. It’s nice just knowing that rascal is out there on our farm.

that 10 is a real nice mature buck my friend . lots of times the older bucks are on the nocturnal side .
but during breeding season they sometimes forget the rules of survival that got them older .

Originally Posted by Ketchn

that 10 is a real nice mature buck my friend . lots of times the older bucks are on the nocturnal side .
but during breeding season they sometimes forget the rules of survival that got them older .

We (me, Dad, my son, & friend) did not harvest a buck last year off our 150 acre farm. I shot at a nice wide 8 last December, but missed him clean. I believe this is that deer. I really don't care about horns and I cannot save them for the future......our farm is completely surrounded by a paved county road. A tornado came through 10 years ago and wrecked a large part of our hardwood hunting land. Now it's all grown up and so thick you cannot walk through there. That's where these bucks are coming from. They come out at dark, then you don't see them during the day because they retreat back to the thicket. They're safe there and they know it.

Late in the afternoons, there is a constant parade of slow moving trucks being driven by rednecks........and they're not cruising for girls........they're cruising for deer standing out in open fields. Game wardens have contacted us numerous times about setting up a mechanical buck so they can catch these poachers, but Dad is afraid of retaliation. He's afraid after they get caught & released, they'll come back and burn our barn or do something bad to the old home place. Someone would get caught the first afternoon if he let them set up in our field.

I have one picture with 7 does eating under a feeder...........I'm probably gonna knock down a doe early, then buck hunt for a few weeks, then take another doe after Christmas.

He's here on a different place on our farm. It's only 150 acres so it's pretty easy for him to be making the rounds.