Decided to make the trip to the lease in Cistern for a Sunday morning and afternoon hunt with the weather that we were supposed to have. We have been struggling to see mature bucks and I figured this would be the weather where I might see one. I finally seen the buck I have been hunting, but unfortunately couldn't get a shot. Fortunately, the camera did catch him.


He didnt come back during the afternoon but this old porker decided to try and come in and didnt make it to far

That's one that is well worth targeting.

He would be a heck of a trophy

Nice one.

very good buck, good luck trying to put your tag on him. you've still got plenty of time. It looks like we're going to get a couple of good hard freezes this week, which should kill off most of the native browse and make the deer more reliant on feed. The hunting should improve because of that.

Here is another picture I got of him. Very unique rack

Very nice one.

UPDATE: Unfortunately didnt get to hunt this buck as much as I would have liked to with the way my work schedule was. The neighbors ended up shooting him in the last week of the season in a stand maybe 50 yards from the fence line.They never said anything about the score, but I aged him at 4.5 when I got a glimpse of him earlier in the year. On to next season

Nice buck. Too bad you didn't get to tag him.

Sorry you were not able to harvest him. He is a good one,

Great looking buck. 'Sorry you didn't get him, but it sounds like you have a decent relationship with the neighbor's hunters. That's pretty rare these days.

Sucks about the neighbors stand placement. Someone that wears that much camo to rifle hunt is probably a city slicker and not very neighborly

Sucks about the neighbors stand placement. Someone that wears that much camo to rifle hunt is probably a city slicker and not very neighborly