The story goes that the Arizona Game & Fish Department set up these water tanks in the White Tank Mountain Recreation Park, about twenty miles west of Phoenix. Mountain lions had been seen in the area and the idea was to draw them in to “monitor their activity” and perhaps attempt to get an idea of how many were there.
From the resulting webcam photos, the notices to watch out for mountain lions are no joke.
Thanks to Tyke for sending these in!
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Sightings
Arizona, Mountain Lion, trailcam
“We had ’nuff grip comin’ through th’backstretch but that ExxonMobilPuma had the better straightaway speed and we didn’t expect the pass in the grass to cut us off”
Thanks to Cory Glauner for sharing this remarkable trailcam photo.
Sightings
trailcam
A sad end to a giant of a buck. From the author:
The news is out. After keeping this brute a perfect secret all throughout the season “Big Louie” was found dead by pheasant hunters on my friends neighboring property. The 250″ buck was discovered by my friend Darin and his neighbor Mark. Here’s the story.
Early season I received a phone call from Darin, my good buddy. His voice sounded as if he had just shot a buck so i asked him what he got… He told me that nothing was dead but to get to his place as soon as I could so he could show me something. I drove over and looked at his computer and saw the biggest buck i had ever seen on a trail camera.
We sat there and talked about how he was going to hunt him, how to stay calm, how to go about the whole process of getting this buck, and how we couldn’t even speak of this Monarch. From then on
Darin told me he was in bowhunting mode and would settle for nothing less of the buck that had been named “Big Louie” by Mark.
All season I heard the stories from them both and saw that no matter what they tried, it was always outsmarting them. He wouldn’t be that big if he couldn’t outsmart them…Darin didn’t use a firearm all season. He told me that he was not going to go out and hunt during the firearms season and had to just sit around and pray that “Big Louie” would make it through. They would see him plenty during the bow season, but never in range.
Later in the season, just about a week or so ago the buck was found dead by pheasant hunters on John Grosboll’s property in Petersburg . The property was right next to Darin’s lease… Either way, it was a tragic way to see this monster go down. They ruled the death as natural causes.
More photos of Big Louie after the jump…
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Campfire Stories
trailcam, whitetail deer
Doubletough contributor Bubba Enget of Devils Lake, North Dakota passed along these trailcam photos taken this summer. After seeing deer activity in a field behind his house, he set up the camera to see if anything interesting was walking. Looks like a good season ahead!
More photos after the jump.
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Deer, Sightings
North Dakota, trailcam
August is around the corner and folks will begin shaping up those food plots, cutting lanes, hanging stands and checking those trailcams……
Sightings, Wildlife In Action
trailcam
As @moultriefeeders reminded me, July 1st marks the beginning of the third quarter, when hunters begin paying particular attention to their trailcams in anticipation of the upcoming season.
This series of photos from one such camera is a fascinating look during a three week period back in March of a stock tank in south Texas (additional photos after the jump).
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Sightings
Texas, trailcam
Trailcams have become as popular for logging trophies as they have for providing that brief glimpse into the happenings of your hunting ground. We’ve featured several such images and this one ranks at the top for downright creepiness.
Capturing what are surely the final moments for an unlucky whitetail can not help but make one wonder what is lurking off the trail after dark.
This image was supposedly taken in Montana.
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Sightings, Wildlife In Action
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