July 10 Bucks (still growing)

These two bucks seem to be the ones that show up the most. Although I have been seeing some other ones while driving around and have not yet captured them on my trail camera. These two bucks would definitely be hard to pass in my books. Notice the double brow tines on both sides of one of the bucks and also the split G3 on the other buck. (Click on the pic to make it larger)......
This will be the last trail camera post on my hunting and fishing blog. I will be posting them on my TRAIL CAMERA BLOG. Just click on the "Animals Gone Wild" link. Thanks for Looking!

Trail Camera Season!!!!

Time to put out some trail cameras to check out my "WANTED LIST" for this years deer season! Looking pretty good thus far... ((Dont forget to check out the "ANIMALS GONE WILD" link for more trail camera Photos and Videos.))

Typical Saturday!

Typical Saturday--Fishing for some cool Fall weather...cant wait!

Eric's First Spring Gobbler

GONE FISHIN'

I decided to take a break from turkey hunting this weekend and blow the dust off my rods and reels. I called my dad the night before to see if he wanted to do some pond fishing and he was all about getting out and "drowning some worms." We caught many largemouth bass weighing 1 to 3 pounds. I even had a nice one break my line that I am guessing to be at least 5 to 6 pounds. I did take a picture of my dads biggest bass weighing a little over 5 pounds!

Dad's Daily Double 2011

Dad and I decided to to sit in the deer blind he had built this past year on the farm. We have been seeing a nice group of turkeys around the area, so I decided to put up a trail camera to see if any were coming on our property. The last couple weeks I have captured these 2 nice toms and and small jake on my Moultrie trail camera. These guys would come through almost everyday but the times on my trail cam photos was either 8:00am one day 11:00am another day and 1:00pm and 4:00pm other days. We decided we would sit all day and see if we can wait 'em out. We packed a cooler and lunch and were in the stand early as we heard some gobblers to the North. To make a long story short we were very comfortable in the blind and had to wait until 4:00pm until the two big boys came strolling into make their rounds. These are the same two long beards we have been getting pictures of on the trail camera. You can see the base frame of the blind in the background.

Dad is struggling to hold the turkeys up for a picture while he prompted me to hurry up and take the picture as I was laughing and watching him have a hard time holding them up.

I told dad to let me get a picture of him with with the new decoy I purchased this year. It is called the "headsupdecoy." I have had lots of fun using this decoy as I have had a couple of close encounters with nice birds, but could not close the deal as I barely missed both birds with my bow.

supporting link: http://headsupdecoy.com/

My 2011 Deer Shed Antlers (54 antlers plus 4 more)

I found 54 antlers total for the year and about 10 matching sets. There are 3 of the 54 antlers not posted in these pics as I handed one over to my buddy Justin Vanek as it was a side to one of his target bucks from this year on his property. I also handed one over to my buddy Scott Schmidt as it was a match to the one he had found earlier. Well, I have taken these pictures and thought that is all I would find unless I happed to stumble across some while turkey hunting this Spring. I was hunting for turkeys this weekend with my freind Clint Gottschalk. I told him that it sure feels "sheddy" around here. I later found 2 matching sets that are pictured at the bottom of this post. I am now up to 58 sheds total and 12 matching sets for 2011!!!

One of my smallest shed finds ever (4" long spike)

While holding these antlers Cooper said, "BIG buck, daddy!"

Cooper is looking to the sky and thanking the "Antler Gods!"

I can't wait to to get in the field with my little buddy searching for some antlers!

Here are the 2 sets I found turkey hunting. The one in the front should be a dandy this year!