September 16, 2012

                                                                                Genesis 1

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Its September  16  7:30  PM, do you know where your BUCK is?

The White tailed deer is a very fascinating creature, it has different phases in life and if fact in every season of the year. A buck is normally born in late May and or June and it normally has one or two brothers and or sisters to grow up with. Unlike we humans it grows up fast and leaves its mother‘s nurturing and watch full eyes at about one year old. In its first fall of life  ( if it lives that long) it will grow its first set of buttons ( button Buck) or antlers  and learn real quick who man is and that its best to stay as far from him as possible especially in the fall.  The white tail buck loses its antlers early spring and shortly thereafter starts growing a new pair. The size and mass of the individual buck’s antlers is dependent many things, its heredity , or gene pool, what is has to eat during the year, and the minerals available to him throughout the year and overall health.

   I have read that if a buck get hurt on its left side during the year , its antlers  on the right side may show some type of irregularity .Same for the opposite side. It takes about three years in most cases for a buck to start sporting some impressive headwear! Ever year after that his antlers will increase in size and mass IF he lives and stays healthy up until about six or seven years old,  then antler growth falls off each successive year he lives.

  After the first year a buck learns, in most cases to rely on the natural gifts our Heavenly Father gave him to survive in the wild! Like humans he has the sense of smell, sight, hearing, taste and touch. I placed the sense of smell first because I believe it’s his most powerful tool in detecting danger.

  I also believe the BIG bucks that have survived two or more hunting seasons develop a sixth sense that enables them to detect the slightest irregularity in their environment.  They can “FEEL” that something is NOT RIGHT!  That makes it even harder to penetrate their defenses in the fall hunting season.

  Big bucks go nocturnal and stay nocturnal for the most part UNTILL love gets in their EYES and when that happens every fall we are given access to a small window of opportunity  to score a mature buck!  As I mentioned earlier a deer changes patterns or habits as the year progress’s through the season’s.

   For the most part the deer's food changes and that changes the “ pattern’s” the deer have for a given day BUT when the White Tail Buck starts losing the velvet that covers his horns it’s a good sign that the RUT is soon to follow! When the days shorten the buck and does start a natural process of procreation the life of a white tail hunter lights up with anticipation of the upcoming rut and all the encounter we will have with the elusive creature.

  As I have said before, watching and outsmarting is more fun than the kill!

As the photo indicates the Bucks are getting ready.. ARE WE GETTING READY?

Send me what you are seeing  as the RUT progresses!

Thanks! and As always I hope your next hunting day will be " Just Right!"

I'm Back!

                             September 2012

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Im BACK!

  Well as you already surmised I have been on an extended hiatus. I am back just in time for one of nature’s most important transitions from summer to  spectacular fall.  WHY you ask do I think it is spectacular, well for me it’s the cool autumn air. The brilliant color change that occurs magically during the gradual shorting of daylight along with the sharpening of the Virginia white tail bucks horns and senses.

  I started chasing white tailed bucks at the age of  17. I graduated from the rank of expert eastern squirrel hunter into a whole new world and I loved it! I loved it then and I love it even more today. I had my first experience with the canny white tail and the results were not so impressive. Back in those days the White Tail deer was not so numerous and seemed to me to be more of a ghost than a real creature. The occasional deer tract and other sign testified of an animal that proved to be much more of a challenge than the numerous loud squirrels I had cut my teeth on.

    I was hooked more by the challenge of outsmarting the Buck than the actual kill. I loved then as I do now watching all of Our Father in Heavens creatures in their natural habitat and trying to blend into the background so that I was “invisible” to the creatures of the forest. I was the first of all my friends to use camouflage and scents to hide my presence way back then. I remember climbing trees and building “tree stands” to hunt out of, I was also the first of my hunting buddies to utilize the advantage of being out of the deer’s natural line of sight and his unbelievable sense of smell. I learned real quick that it was his nose that got me detected 9 times out of  10.

 We will talk more of the buck and his natural affection for the does and how that plays into the “hunters” plans on later posts!

 I invite all of you to report your sightings of deer activity and RUT sign as we progress into the fall and the peak of the rut!

Until next time this is Big Daddy saying I hope your tonight and tomorrow are  “JUST RIGHT!!”

 

 

                             September 2012

Trophy farms  Blog post

Im BACK!

  Well as you already surmised I have been on an extended hiatus. I am back just in time for one of nature’s most important transitions from summer to  spectacular fall.  WHY you ask do I think it is spectacular, well for me it’s the cool autumn air. The brilliant color change that occurs magically during the gradual shorting of daylight along with the sharpening of the Virginia white tail bucks horns and senses.

  I started chasing white tailed bucks at the age of  17. I graduated from the rank of expert eastern squirrel hunter into a whole new world and I loved it! I loved it then and I love it even more today. I had my first experience with the canny white tail and the results were not so impressive. Back in those days the White Tail deer was not so numerous and seemed to me to be more of a ghost than a real creature. The occasional deer tract and other sign testified of an animal that proved to be much more of a challenge than the numerous loud squirrels I had cut my teeth on.

    I was hooked more by the challenge of outsmarting the Buck than the actual kill. I loved then as I do now watching all of Our Father in Heavens creatures in their natural habitat and trying to blend into the background so that I was “invisible” to the creatures of the forest. I was the first of all my friends to use camouflage and scents to hide my presence way back then. I remember climbing trees and building “tree stands” to hunt out of, I was also the first of my hunting buddies to utilize the advantage of being out of the deer’s natural line of sight and his unbelievable sense of smell. I learned real quick that it was his nose that got me detected 9 times out of  10.

 We will talk more of the buck and his natural affection for the does and how that plays into the “hunters” plans on later posts!

 I invite all of you to report your sightings of deer activity and RUT sign as we progress into the fall and the peak of the rut!

Until next time this is Big Daddy saying I hope your tonight and tomorrow are  “JUST RIGHT!!”