Cell-Phone Photo of a Trail-Cam Photo: Midwest Deep-Woods Giant!

I understand the hunter who is after this monster drop brings in the memory cards from his trail cams, downloads images onto his computer, prints a few pictures and shows them off to a select few co-workers. He lets them take a few pictures of the printed pictures with their cell phones as "deer porn," hence we are looking at this giant.

Amazing the way big deer find their way onto BIG DEER!

Here's the story: The buck lives in a northern Midwest state, perhaps 10 miles or more off the nearest main road. Last fall the hunter found a good pinch point where several trails came together back in there. In June he put out a Moultrie camera, and two weeks later he got the first picture of this buck, which was already twice as big as anything else in the area. Throughout the summer, the dropper continued to show up regularly on camera--this picture is 18th August.

Interesting and telling big-buck behavior: Even though the deer lives in a very remote big-woods environment, there have been only 2 pictures of him in daylight; the rest of the images have been taken from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. A big deer is just naturally largely nocturnal.

Will the hunter get him? I think he has a shot. The buck is photogenic, which means he’s on his feet a lot. The more a buck moves, the more likely he is to make a mistake. And since 2 of the pictures were taken in daylight already, he will move some more in daylight in September and October and especially in November. There will be no other hunters in the remote area, and that is the best part. Good luck man! comment