Thanks for the great photos!!!!!!

Thanks for sharing these incredible photos! 

Way Cool! Thanks for sharing Mike!

  Mike thanks for the pictures and if my count is correct I see 33 different bucks in those but some I skipped cause it looks to appear to be a few of the same buck?
Anyway it looks like you had a great time in the woods so far this year and thanks for sharing those pictures with all of us.

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing!

Fantastic pictures buddy

Some great pics brother!!

I usually tell my stories through written or spoken word, but this time I just wanted the photos to help tell the story. Keffer was right to assume I saw many bucks, and deer in general. I hunted dawn to dark every day. Being in the woods 12 to 13 hours a day, every day lends it self to the capture of great information. The property was a private farm of 25% hay field and the rest a mixture of rolling ridges of hard woods and slopes of cedar and shingle oak thickets. The only human intrusion was me. Deer acted like deer,  and it was refreshing to see bucks actually feeding undisturbed during daylight. I saw rubbing, sparring, scraping, posturing, chasing, tending, scent checking, and fleeing. All the natural things that buck deer do. It also stress that no matter how smart we think we are, hunting them in their environment, being selective, and committing to only close range shooting is about as challenging as it gets. I am so happy for the experience, and hope to continue my pursuits. Mike

Good stuff Mike. Congrats on the yotes, good luck in  Illinois

Mike, looks like you had a great hunt.

I bet you would have got one if you tried a little harder buddy!  I also have not shot an arrow yet this year so I know the feeling. BW

Well, at least I don't feel so bad, I haven't shot an arrow yet either, but would have never passed on your #5, Mike... 


Best of luck the rest of the season...

Congrats for your hunt it is been a success anyway. To be able to take pics that close at so many dandy bucks is fulfilling.
Thanks for sharing

Mike,
  I know many folks would jump at the chance to take just one of those bucks if presented the opportunity but as I get older and a "Little" more wiser as each year go's by I say you have had a "Good hunt" and not drawing your bow and releasing an arrow doesn't mean you didn't have a good hunt.
  You actually got to witness these bucks as they were in their natural state and not being pressured by a army of hunters and that is part of hunting and why many Traditional folks take up the stickbow.
  To bring home a deer to fill an empty freezer is a gift but also what we see and enjoy is also a gift and a blessing from He who created it all!
  The Moose hunt was another one of those gifts and especially after He let you know that Bull with the scar was still in the "Great Outdoors" and One with the wilderness as well!
  Imagine if you will and you were that Bull Moose and thinking "Hey that tall fella looks just like the guy I saw a few years ago in this same area" except he aged a little...

Awesome pics mike thxs for sharing lots of great bucks which many of us would consider trophies!

Mike, looks like you had a good hunt.  Uncle Gene and myself gave it a good try but the really big ones just weren't there.  Maybe during the late season.

Great photos thanks!

Really  nice photos, what kind or type of camera do you use or recommend. I use to video a fair amount but haven't for lots of years, I think it was the super 8 days.

Great pictures and thanks for sharing!

Very nice Mike! Thanks for sharing. I hope you are well and best of luck for the remainder of the season.

Jerry