Sage Bucks
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2lumpy, Fine job!!! I really like that big guy walking away. That's the stuff many of my dreams are made of!!
We have a lot of country like that just 30-40 miles East of me but it doesn't hold near the bucks like it used to. Still though, it can be good hunting, we can draw about every 6-7 years if we hold out, sooner in some units, and i do love hunting that big sage country!! Thanks!
Joey
"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"
We have a lot of country like that just 30-40 miles East of me but it doesn't hold near the bucks like it used to. Still though, it can be good hunting, we can draw about every 6-7 years if we hold out, sooner in some units, and i do love hunting that big sage country!! Thanks!
Joey
"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"
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Thanks guys.
BIGJOHN, I have an old Canon EDS 10D 5.0 megapixel with a 70-300 telephoto. At full zoom, it takes pretty clear photos, if I'm at less than 50 yards, beyond that, not so good. Most of these deer were at 80 to 100 yards out, in early morning or late afternoon/evening light. Most of them are enlarged and cropped, some were nearly black images that I had to add light to in order to see anything at all. Here is a example of a photo in good light but the deer was about 80 yards from me.
This is the original shot:
Here is an enlarged section on the same picture, quite blurry:
This is the same enlarged section that I sharpened with PhotoShop, it helps some as long as you don't try to print it, printed images that have been PhotoShop sharpened don't look worth a darn, unless your talented, which I'm far from:
In order to put them on MM I have to reduce them from 180 pixels to 72 pixels, tolerable on a computer screen, if you don't try to enlarge them. Nasty if you try to print them.
However, my photo trips are just like my hunting trips, its more for the memories and the pleasure of being out interacting with nature, so blurry or not the pictures in the photo album and the antlers on the wall all serve to remind me of the good times I've had with family members and good friends who enjoy the same things I do. A blurry picture doesn't do a lot for others but they stoke my furnace when I look at them at a later date.
I do wish I could take a field course in Photography from someone so I could get the best out of what I have because I'm just a point and click kind of picture taker. I guess I'm just too impatient to even go to a tripod, most of my stuff is split second shots, here and gone, type of photos, then on to the next blurry opportunity. ;-)
But I know Sage likes deer picture,s so I try to throw a few up every so often.
DC
BIGJOHN, I have an old Canon EDS 10D 5.0 megapixel with a 70-300 telephoto. At full zoom, it takes pretty clear photos, if I'm at less than 50 yards, beyond that, not so good. Most of these deer were at 80 to 100 yards out, in early morning or late afternoon/evening light. Most of them are enlarged and cropped, some were nearly black images that I had to add light to in order to see anything at all. Here is a example of a photo in good light but the deer was about 80 yards from me.
This is the original shot:
Here is an enlarged section on the same picture, quite blurry:
This is the same enlarged section that I sharpened with PhotoShop, it helps some as long as you don't try to print it, printed images that have been PhotoShop sharpened don't look worth a darn, unless your talented, which I'm far from:
In order to put them on MM I have to reduce them from 180 pixels to 72 pixels, tolerable on a computer screen, if you don't try to enlarge them. Nasty if you try to print them.
However, my photo trips are just like my hunting trips, its more for the memories and the pleasure of being out interacting with nature, so blurry or not the pictures in the photo album and the antlers on the wall all serve to remind me of the good times I've had with family members and good friends who enjoy the same things I do. A blurry picture doesn't do a lot for others but they stoke my furnace when I look at them at a later date.
I do wish I could take a field course in Photography from someone so I could get the best out of what I have because I'm just a point and click kind of picture taker. I guess I'm just too impatient to even go to a tripod, most of my stuff is split second shots, here and gone, type of photos, then on to the next blurry opportunity. ;-)
But I know Sage likes deer picture,s so I try to throw a few up every so often.
DC
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2lumpy, You ah, you pass up bucks like the one you used as an example here?
If so, i want to go hunting with you!! lol, that's a nice buck. He's crabby on the one front side but there haven't been any hunts that i've been on in a long time where i'd let one like that walk.
What do you think, is he a shooter?
Joey
"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"
If so, i want to go hunting with you!! lol, that's a nice buck. He's crabby on the one front side but there haven't been any hunts that i've been on in a long time where i'd let one like that walk.
What do you think, is he a shooter?
Joey
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Nope Sage, there were three or four buck on that trip I'd take, if I could draw another tag for the unit they are on. Drawing a tag is a ten plus year effort now days.
The season has been over for about ten days on this area and these buck are following does without regard to humans right now. Where ever the doe goes these bucks are right behind, they'd walk right over you, if the doe did.
I've never killed a buck with as big of antlers as a some of these deer, close but not quite. I've taken a small hand full of 150/160 inch bucks, one that measured around 175" off this unit over the last twenty five years, but I never can find the really big stuff during the season, and there are much larger deer than these in my photos to be had, if your man enough to get it done, which I'm not.
I like wide antler confirmation (but isn't not the most important thing), don't care about extra points (I can take them or leave them) but I'm really prejudice toward willowy bucks, I'd take a deer with average tine length and heavy mass over anything on the mountain, regardless of width or height.
These two bucks: I'd really have a hard time turning down and they're still not as heavy as my dream buck would be, and they're certainly not wide but I'd take either of them over the wide willowy antlered bucks.
DC
The season has been over for about ten days on this area and these buck are following does without regard to humans right now. Where ever the doe goes these bucks are right behind, they'd walk right over you, if the doe did.
I've never killed a buck with as big of antlers as a some of these deer, close but not quite. I've taken a small hand full of 150/160 inch bucks, one that measured around 175" off this unit over the last twenty five years, but I never can find the really big stuff during the season, and there are much larger deer than these in my photos to be had, if your man enough to get it done, which I'm not.
I like wide antler confirmation (but isn't not the most important thing), don't care about extra points (I can take them or leave them) but I'm really prejudice toward willowy bucks, I'd take a deer with average tine length and heavy mass over anything on the mountain, regardless of width or height.
These two bucks: I'd really have a hard time turning down and they're still not as heavy as my dream buck would be, and they're certainly not wide but I'd take either of them over the wide willowy antlered bucks.
DC
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Nice, Very nice. Thank You!!
Joey
"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"
Joey
"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"
