These are the two Bucks I got this season. The first is a nice five point, that I got hunting at the farm. The seconds a dandy Eight pointer I got hunting behind my sons house on the creek .i

Turkey hunt 2011

Turkey Season started Saturday, but we did not see a thing. Went back today after work and got this really nice big old Jake. He was nearly a Tom but with only a six and a 1/4 inch beard that makes him a Jake. Still proud to have harvested it with my Son Randal. We had a good time.

My Buck 2010

I got my Buck mount back today from Swamp-hunters Taxidemy in New London NC. Phil Honeycutt there does great work. He can do anything you want and he is a great guy. I love my 8 point mount, thanks Phil, I will be back.

The Law

I found out a few days ago that a Father and Son from up the street from me had been arrested for various deer hunting related charges. The son was apparently caught shooting from the road in a car. That is illegal in North Carolina, as it should be. The Game Wardens searched the Sons property and found some deer carcass and he told them the carcass belonged to his Dad, so they searched his home as well. Turns out they had like five deer between them that they had not tagged. What I can't seem to figure out is, why? Why did they not just tag the deer they had killed this year? In North Carolina you can tag six deer, two bucks and four does. So they should have been able to harvest twelve deer in all. Both are good at hunting they take deer every year. They have a few good places to hunt too. No need to shoot from the road. I think there is a lesson for us all from their mistakes. First when is enough, enough? Do we really need to kill every deer we see? I know the pressure from other hunters to "get one" is hard to take sometimes but do we have to resort to breaking the law to get the most. This is exactly what the anti-hunting crowd wants us to be, jerks with guns. Now they can say look at these guys and what they are up to and put the blame on us all. Hunters only make up about six percent of the population, and if we don't police ourselves, we could find our hunting privileges gone. Next time a buddy suggest that you do any thing out side of the law, tell them "no way" we all have to stand firm and work hard to keep our right to hunt, or I can guarantee you it will be taken away.

nice Deer down at Judies cabin on Tuckertown

Got this shot of a nice buck with the game cam down at the river. I would like to see this deer in the daylight,

Opening Day buck

Opening Day buck I shot over at the old Foutz farm. Hunting with my "Cuz" Todd Hopkins.

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Cabin on the Tuckertown lake

We went down to the Cabin last weekend to bow hunt. We had one blow at us early, then nothing. I set up my game cam on a salt lick back in the woods and got these shots of a few young deer and a few spikes eating my corn and having at the salt. We are going to go back down on Sunday afternoon to give it another shot, I think our chances are good to at least maybe see some whitetails.

New hunting club Ellerbee N.C.

I have joined a hunting club this year for the 2010 hunting season. I have not been a member of a club for many years. I used to have plenty of places to hunt that where safe and I could take my kids or relatives with me knowing that they would be safe too. After last year with all kinds of nonsense taking place on some land I was hunting, like a fool walking around in gun season with no orange on, who said he was stalking a buck he had seen a few weeks before. Never mind that the land he was on was posted and he had no right to be there. Then I found out after the leaves dropped that a neighbor had put up stands as close to my feeders as he could to take advantage of my bait. Also I noticed that as soon as squirrel season starts around here you start to hear lots of shooting going on, and I know for a fact that don't many folks hunt squirrels any more. Gun season for deer starts when people start seeing deer during the pre-rut. They know nobody cares and who is going to call the wardens who don't seem to care either. Any way I have decided to join a club down in Richmond county near Ellerbee NC to get away from Rowan and Cabarrus for at least this season. I have my nephew Kerston 12 who is going to be hunting his first bow season this year. It is great to get to see a young man get his first deer and I hope I am going to be there with him when he gets his. here are a few shots from the game camera.

First buck under my stand

This is the first buck I have seen under my stand with the game cam. I have seen at least one more when I was hunting last week. So the bucks are finally moving around some. I am going to move the camera to a new location to scout some. I shot a young doe right here just a few days before this shot was taken. I have still got plenty of does coming to this spot to get corn, so now I am going to try to set up on some trails with my little blind to see if I can catch them off guard.

Opening Day 2009

A few moments out of my opening day morning on the phone-camera video.

First Buck to show.

Finally after three months of taking pictures with my game-cameras I have got a shot of a young Buck. Sure enough, like I thought, the Bucks will start to show up where the Does are. He is just a spike, but I bet I will start to catch a few good Bucks on film soon.

My Dove Season 09

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Some shots from last week. Deer bow season Starts in the morning. I have been feeding at this spot all spring and summer. I even planted a food plot of rye-grass and clover. I hope that I get a shot on opening day, it would be so sweet. We are out of deer meat so a big Doe would be just what I would want. I just hope one tries to get a little corn in the morning.

August 2009

I liked the shots I got from my first game camera so I bought another one to go at my son's stand near where I hunt. We got some great shots of deer and some Quail at Chris's stand. We got some good shots from my stand too, enjoy.

last shots of July 09

Got the card from the camera today, looks like a few deer are still hitting the corn everyday. The game feeder is working great I can't say enough about the Moutrie Game Feeder. I have had it up for two months feeding twice a day and the battery is still at almost 100% charged. I had deer feeding at it within a week of putting it out. I also use a Moutrie Game Cam to get the photos, and again I just can't say enough good things about it. I love to be able and see just about every thing that comes by my tree-stand. I can not wait for the Bow-season to start. Thanks for stopping by!

Late july 2

Some more shots from last week in the woods on the Gold Hill Ridge, near Mt. Pleasant N.C. I can not wait for deer season to start. I am ready this year. I have had corn out all Summer, and the Does are coming to my stand all times of the day. I got my tri-pod set up on a ridge over Asa's creek, Down the road from where I live in Rockwell, N.C.

Late July 2009

Finally I went and got the card from my remote game camera. Wow, I got some great shots of some deer checking out the corn pile. Bow season is just a month a a half away and I got deer all around my stand. Haven't seen any bucks yet, but they will show up soon enough! Hope to post again next week, thanks for looking!

no post for a few weeks

sorry about no post for the last few weeks, I had my camera loaned out. I put it back out at my tri-pod set up in the woods on the "Gold-Hill Ridge" just today. I hope to have some new shoots of deer eating my corn soon!

Coyote?

Looks like a coyote, but it could be a raccoon what do you think? Leave a comment please.