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It has been a very dry summer here this year and so I decided to put a couple of water tanks on my 40. There is not much water within a couple of miles of my place and man have I been getting a lot of action. I bought 2- 100 gallon Rubbermaid animal troughs and buried them about a 1/5 of a mile apart, each under a bow stand. The front tank is being dominated by a bear and two cubs, turkeys, a half dozen deer, and coons. The back tank is more secluded and pretty much dominated by about 25 different deer, including 5 different bucks. At first mice were always falling in and dying so I put a log in each to climb out on. (problem solved). here are two bucks from the other day. Hope everyone is having a great summer!!

That is awesome GH! Looks like those two are about to shed those antlers.

No Mark. Those fine bucks are in velvet. Their antlers are still growing in size and mass. Biologists say that the antlers grow at faster rate as a fast growing cancer grows. Deer shed their antlers in January and February. Can you imagine growing and losing about 10-12 lbs of calcium and other minerals in just 6 months? Totally Awesome!!!!

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