You can't see all the trash points that well but he's going to be a 17 point by my best count!

 

Nice! And he's not finished growing!!!

 

GIANT!!!!! great photos and video!

 

Looks like that dude is gonna live to a ripe old age there in his little oasis. Nice pics. Thanks for sharing him with all of us. Pretty neat.

 

Here the longer 8 minutes of edited together video & a few pictures, from two different cameras, bonus footage from the 2nd camera at the end. I was so excited, it was hard to keep it together & fooling around with 3 cameras at the same time!

 

aren't you afraid of spooking him before archery season comes in?

 

He tolerates me pretty well! I've actually talked to him, several times, when he started getting a little to close and it didn't freak him out! LOL!

 

Great Video- always enjoy how they detect danger and I especially get locked on their body language as they try to determine what the danger potential is-it tells you a lot about what he may do next. He seemed concerned with you- once detected- with some "paw stomping" alerting the other deer something isn't quite right. His focused attention in your direction also sent some warning signals to the other deer. You can learn a lot from this deer.

Nice job- keep his whereabouts to yourself. As you may know some yahoo's out there may take a poke at him.

 

There's several other guys that know him well & even got pictures of him on trail cams when he went wandering during rut. He may end up getting legally harvested during rut.

 

Do u hunt that property?

 

It's a City limits no hunting area but he wanders during rut into hunting areas.

 

what is in there that they are eating?

 

It's just wild weeds, it was soybeans last year. Deer will eat lots of weeds/grass. You don't have to have a food plot to get big bucks.

 

Food, water, security cover- all he needs for his "sanctuary". One of the reasons he rarely leaves it. He's been around the block a few times.......

 

Yep, nobody's shooting at him in there & there's humans around all the time, walking, talking & watching the deer. He tends to avoid human contact areas till well after sunset but he knows they're all around! He beds down near a tennis court! LOL!!!

 

Yep-and he knows it- it's not by accident.

The Mule deer in my avatar was killed right next to the ranch house of a 3,000 acre ranch out West. We hunted the property hard for a good buck and on the way in one night, there was a high ridge looking over a thick sage brush thicket near a water hole and less that 100 yards from the ranch house. I sat there enjoying the sunset and not realizing that the Buck was there deep in the thicket-he got nervous and busted out of there thinking I was watching him and was leaving the ranch in a hurry- I killed him with a 500+ yard shot just about when he was ready to go over the next ridge as he stopped and looked back one last time- it was just right before sunset. I was sitting there for a good 30 minutes and he just made a mistake. Point is- with 3,000 acres and many places on that ranch he could of chosen he knew he was safe there, he just made a mistake when someone did something he didn't expect them to do.

 

Very nice. What kind of camera are you using?

 

I was using a Sony HDR-CX330 HD Handycam plus a Sony 20.1 mp. DSC-H400 camera that I was taking pictures with but also shot some video footage with it, had both Sony's on a single tripod and then I had my Canon T5 w/75-300mm lens hanging around my neck & I took some pictures with it to.