Yuma Outdoorsman

Bad butt man! Great buck and congrats again.

Photos? Haha congrats on the buck!

I recently purchased a Nikon P1000 to start filming/photographing my family and also animals when I’m in the desert. I’ve had the camera a little over a week and here is the camera and some shots I’ve captured. The water tower shot is an iPhone maxed out at 1.75 miles per google earth on the left and the P1000 on the right at the same distance. The first bighorn photos are from about 150 yards.

Thanks guys. Hope to have more photos/videos soon.

Congrats! Great buck!

Just wanted to share a post I made in the Optics forum. If you are considering a new camera for videos and photos in the field, I highly suggest this Nikon P1000. I’ve only had it a little over a week and am pretty happy with it. Just wanted to share it in case anyone is looking for something like this. Im hoping to have some photos and videos of deer soon.

These next 2 sheep were about 500-600 yards away in the shade of a mountain. The zoom sounds loud in the video but in person you don’t hear it. (don’t mind the commentary in the video, I had my daughter with me and we were parked right off a Jeep trail and had people coming by and she was jumping in and out of my Jeep so didn’t want her to get hit by somebody coming by. DSCN0259.MP4

Awesome ram!

Well, I was able to tag out Saturday afternoon. I was walking down a wash into the wind and kicked this buck up at about 50 yards. He went north and into a finger and stopped at about 200 yards. I was able to position myself for a clear shot and dropped him. I hadn't seen a deer all day and when he jumped from his bed, he looked bigger than he was and I just couldn't pass him up. I had a slight shooter's remorse hit me realizing my hunt was over but after looking him over and realizing I had tons of trail camera photos and videos of him, I was happy to have him. I can't wait to get out for the rut in January. Here are a couple hero shots with him and a velvet video from September. mybuck.MOV

I shared my photo last night of a buck I was able to take but the highlight of my weekend was seeing this big ol buck my nephew Deagan was able to take. He just turned 10 earlier this year and was able to do the hunter’s safety online. We had a waterhole being used pretty regularly and had a solid 3x3 buck that was coming in consistently every other morning, even with the cooler weather. I told my brother in law, the best opportunity to get Deagan a shot would be to sit a trail on this drinker and have him get that 3x3. He agreed. Friday morning, they got up at 4:30 and drove to the waterhole. They parked 700 yards south of the waterhole and walked in slowly. First light came and nothing showed to the drinker. At first light, Deagan told his dad “hey I think I can hear something coming.” My brother in law Joe told him he didn’t hear anything but to keep his eyes open and try to stay quiet. 30 seconds later, this buck stepped out. Joe ranged him at 150 yards and Deagan said he had him in the scope. Deagan shot the first time and shot over his back. Being in a small canyon, the echo caused some confusion for the buck and he just stood there looking around. Deagan jacked another shell in and dropped the buck on his next shot, never needing to shoot again. Joe said Deagan jumped up and started fist pumping the air and was going crazy. What a great father/son moment they were able to experience. Best part is, they thought he had shot the nice 3x3 and instead it was a beautiful 4x4 that just happened to be the biggest buck using this waterhole. Deagan is hooked for life. I’ve attached a photo and video of this buck from before the hunt. FullSizeRender.mov

Thanks guys. He’s definitely hooked for life.

Well, might as well add my brother in law’s 2x4 to the mix. He dropped this buck at 350 yards yesterday evening. It is his biggest buck to date as he just got into deer hunting a few years back. (I may have had something to do with it 😂)...this was an old buck with front hooves larger than any deer I’ve ever seen. That’s 4 bucks for our camp this year.

Thanks everyone who took the time to leave a comment. I appreciate it. Can’t wait for January.

Thanks every one for taking the time to leave a comment. Hopefully I have more photos to share in January.

This!!! I’ve seen old deer on cameras before and never seen a Roman nose on one until this buck. I’m also curious what causes the Roman nose.

Dude that is awesome! Congrats to your brother.

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All our deer are super skinny over here in the southwest corner of the state. We might get some rain next week but we needed it the last few months to help green up the desert. The waterholes are drained like I've never seen before and the warm days heading into November are not helping the situation. Hoping for cooler and wet weather soon.

Congrats to you guys. Sounds like a good time and glad you didn't call the hunt off early. There is not a better feeling than thinking you are going to go home with tag soup and then filling your tag in the last few hours.

I wish I would've used my camera on video mode a lot sooner as I've enjoyed getting to see the different angles of their racks and also some of their behavior with other deer and how they interact with coyotes. These 2 bucks came in 10 days ago and I got this buck taking a big ol' whiff of fresh air. Hope the video works. IMAG0181.AVI

I’ve heard them do it during the rut...never in October. I thought it was pretty funny to see.

Starting last Thursday, I finally had bucks on camera in my desert rifle unit rubbing their velvet off. Went and looked again today and it’s about 50/50 still have velvet/rubbed off. This buck still had velvet last week and rubbed off since. Man, I’m getting excited. Tomorrow will be 3 weeks out.

That one isn’t on the hit list haha he’s just for reference of the rubbing.

Been hitting the desert working trail cameras in several different locations and I cannot believe how many quail I’ve seen. Some waterholes have 50-100 birds and one had to of had 200. They are every where. I’ve even seen some in areas where the closest water hole is a couple miles away. Looks like it’s going to be a fun season.

I was out and about this weekend and saw hundreds of birds in the desert. Some of them are 2-3 miles from the closest water holes. Can't wait for the opener.