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The deer are in the yard again!

GanderGander Member Posts: 264 ✭✭
edited March 2013 in General Discussion
A few pics of Tracy's drive way. The buck pic is from early this winter the others are more resent.

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Lead me not into temptation as I seem to find it often myself !
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  • 35 Whelen35 Whelen Member Posts: 14,307 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    BOOM!






    Gravy.[:D][;)]
    An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
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  • mike_02mike_02 Member Posts: 259 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    So what time is dinner?
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  • golferboy426golferboy426 Member Posts: 970 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    wow where are you located
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,419 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Very Cool, thanks for sharing
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  • savage170savage170 Member Posts: 37,550 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    [8D][:)]
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  • Old-ColtsOld-Colts Member Posts: 22,697 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wow, cool!!!!

    If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!

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  • GanderGander Member Posts: 264 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:golferboy426 Posted - 03/23/2013 : 11:06:26 PM wow where are you located

    Up in da U.P. of Michigan.
    Lead me not into temptation as I seem to find it often myself !
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,159 ******
    edited November -1
    [^][^][^][8D][8D][8D] very nice.
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  • pietro75pietro75 Member Posts: 7,048 ✭
    edited November -1
    Neat! My dad is in Ironwood. He has Tacconelli's Towne House, great place to eat or have a cold one. He has a pizza place in Bessemer as well.
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  • pietro75pietro75 Member Posts: 7,048 ✭
    edited November -1
    My mother lives down in Houghton Lake. [:)]
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  • bambambambambambam Member Posts: 4,818 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That is a lot of backstraps, jerky & summer sausage sitting there.[:p][:D]
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bambambam
    That is a lot of backstraps, jerky & summer sausage sitting there.[:p][:D]
    Yep... [:p]
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  • Sig220_Ruger77Sig220_Ruger77 Member Posts: 12,754 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Dang!

    May I ask what was used for the pictures? They are so dang clear they almost look photo shopped! [:0]

    Jon
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  • Joes Custom GunsJoes Custom Guns Member Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Those two Bucks in the 3rd. pix. could be nice next Fall, if You would feed them right.as they booth look to be 2yrs old.
    They need both Proper food and age to get to be 150" B&C Trophys.

    Good Luck.
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  • GUNFUNCOGUNFUNCO Member Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Neat photos.

    Nice to meet another Michigander. But I guess I'm a troll, cause I live beneath the bridge.[8D]
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,494 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Very nice
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  • TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Got Meat
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  • catgunguycatgunguy Member Posts: 6,089
    edited November -1
    Beutifull pictures. Thank you.
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  • deerhntrdeerhntr Member Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Holy cow![:p]
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  • bullshotbullshot Member Posts: 14,705 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Great pictures, the deer don't usually have you out numbered like that.
    We get small herds around our house (8-12) but nothing like that.
    "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you"
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  • roswellnativeroswellnative Member Posts: 10,190 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Let me know if you need a property manager. Seems like a lot of deer, is the herd in check??
    Although always described as a cowboy, Roswellnative generally acts as a righter of wrongs or bodyguard of some sort, where he excels thanks to his resourcefulness and incredible gun prowesses.
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  • GanderGander Member Posts: 264 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Sig220_Ruger77

    May I ask what was used for the pictures? They are so dang clear they almost look photo shopped!

    Jon

    Tracy used a Canon 50D for these shots.
    Lead me not into temptation as I seem to find it often myself !
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  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Looks like you need one of them there new deer plows to get to the house.
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  • Sooeyman2035Sooeyman2035 Member Posts: 3,226
    edited November -1
    Does Ted Nugent know where you live?
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  • DieHard4DieHard4 Member Posts: 2,373 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hoping to have that yard in the near future.
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  • asopasop Member Posts: 9,006 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What are they feeding on?
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  • GanderGander Member Posts: 264 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:asop Posted -
    What are they feeding on?

    Corn
    Lead me not into temptation as I seem to find it often myself !
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  • 1BigGuy1BigGuy Member Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Very cool! I saw a herd of elk yesterday from the interstate that was three times that size. I love seeing wildlife.
    And sometimes I like to eat them too.
    [^]
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  • SGSG Member Posts: 7,548
    edited November -1
    Thats something you will never see on opening morning.Nice pics!
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  • Sig220_Ruger77Sig220_Ruger77 Member Posts: 12,754 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Gander
    quote:Sig220_Ruger77

    May I ask what was used for the pictures? They are so dang clear they almost look photo shopped!

    Jon

    Tracy used a Canon 50D for these shots.


    Thanks! I am going to have to look into that. I am looking for a nice camera to take with me to the races.

    Jon
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  • anderskandersk Member Posts: 3,627 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Man, I've never seen anything like that. The snow, yes, but not all the deer! Awesome.

    Just wondering ... Are they being fed?
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  • CoolhandLukeCoolhandLuke Member Posts: 7,826 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wow great photo thanks, I counted 41 in the 2nd photo.
    We have to fight so we can run away.
    Capt. Jack Sparrow.
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  • GanderGander Member Posts: 264 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You just can't get them all in one picture. This years highest count was 86 maybe 87, last year there were 92 in one count.
    Lead me not into temptation as I seem to find it often myself !
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  • anderskandersk Member Posts: 3,627 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yo Gander, I'm just curious. What is attracting all these deer to this place? I don't want to just assume that they are being fed. Are you doing some studies on them? what attracts them? What scares them? What vocalizations are you hearing? Must be totally awesome to study them? and to just watch them? I'd have trouble getting much else done!
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  • Sav99Sav99 Member Posts: 16,037 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by pietro75
    My mother lives down in Houghton Lake. [:)]


    Just about an hour north of me. Ironwood on the other hand is considerably farther.
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  • GanderGander Member Posts: 264 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:andersk Posted - 03/27/2013 : 11:36:53 AM Yo Gander, I'm just curious. What is attracting all these deer to this place? I don't want to just assume that they are being fed. Are you doing some studies on them? what attracts them? What scares them? What vocalizations are you hearing? Must be totally awesome to study them? and to just watch them? I'd have trouble getting much else done!

    A combination of weather, geography and feed. The annual snowfall here is half of what it is 10 miles north and another 10 miles it almost doubles again, this moves the deer south. Just to the west of us there is a large river bottom which is a natural winter deer yard. There fore we have deer migrating south and west through the area. Now for the geography. As you can see in the pic the house sites on a ridge which runs east and west maybe six to seven miles, the house being a couple hundred yards from the west end. Then another ridge starts at that point and runs north a couple miles creating this large funnel. At the point of the funnel feed! We have about a dozen or so deer that spend the year in the neighborhood, the rest start showing up soon after it starts snowing. I built my home here in 78. We had horses and the deer were first attracted to their feed. Then I started to feed the deer as well. About ten years back we built my daughters house on the ridge behind our place and she took over feeding the deer.
    This time of year the deer aren't very vocal but you can tell what their mood by the ears.
    Here is another picture of my daughter at feeding time.

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    Lead me not into temptation as I seem to find it often myself !
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  • GanderGander Member Posts: 264 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    By the way, Ironwood is about four hours west and north, Houghton Lake is another four hours east and south.
    Lead me not into temptation as I seem to find it often myself !
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  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by andersk
    Yo Gander, I'm just curious. What is attracting all these deer to this place? I don't want to just assume that they are being fed. Are you doing some studies on them? what attracts them? What scares them? What vocalizations are you hearing? Must be totally awesome to study them? and to just watch them? I'd have trouble getting much else done!


    This is what I am most curious about. In all the years I have been hunting, I have only heard a few grunts....that is it.
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