More August Trail Camera Pictures

Five days ago Dad went down to the farm and sprayed our fall food plots for weeds and grasses a few days after we brush hogged. So, today we went down there to start discing the fields to prepare them for planting before our next rain (not sure when that is going to happen). The grass was dead but still pretty thick. I hope our seed will be able to penetrate the grass and make good soil contact when we do get to plant. Maybe we can plant next week if we can just get some rain to move in. The fields are extremely dry right now.

While we were there I checked some of our cameras. I did get 6 more pictures of Lucky #7 and his bachelor group on a food plot called Field #3. I had placed some Whitetail Institute Kraze mineral attractant. The bucks just love the stuff! I also put up some snow fencing on one side of this field to funnel them through the food plot. Lucky #7 was still in velvet as of yesterday but bucks are starting to show up out of velvet already. In fact, the more I look at the pictures of Can Opener from last week, the more I think he was already out of velvet.

There was no sign of Can Opener on the cameras this time (bummer). So, I decided to move all of the cameras around to new locations to scout other parts of the farm. I probably won't check them for 4 weeks unless I have time to check them after we finish planting next week. My Dad and Cousin think that Can Opener is going to be hard to kill because he moves at night and is skittish. Lucky #7 could push him off the farm if they start establishing their dominance. Do mature bucks battle for territory and push one another out of an area completely? I am not sure. We need to shoot Can Opener before the rut though because those long brow tines are bound to get broken once he starts fighting with other bucks.

On our way home, Dad and I decided to stop and check some of the other cameras that have been up for the last 3 weeks at our other farms. It looks like our newest farm has a couple of shooters on it. That is exciting considering the cameras were not located near any food sources. Here is what they look like:






I call this buck Lefty because he has 7 points on his left side and only 4 main points on his right side. He seems to be a mature buck and is pictured in the 3 photos above.




There are actually three bucks in these 2 pictures. The 2 shooters in front (on the left) with a smaller buck to the right. Both of the larger bucks are difficult to make out but I know they are not Lefty. They appear to be over the 140"+ class. Hopefully I can get more pictures of them to determine what they really are.


This is a group of younger bucks that were hanging out together on another farm. The larger of the 3 will be nice in a couple of years with a lot of character.