September Winner
Kurt Meyers of Washington, Pa caught a picture of this great buck posing for the camera near a sacrificial cornfield, where a special variety of corn is planted to pull insects, deer, and disease away from the regular corn crop.
March Winner
Vince Morris of Pottstown, Pa captured this beauty in October of 2008 in East Coventry Twp. in Southeastern Pa.
October Winner
Denny Russel of Cranberry Township calls this buck "Ghost." He has been watching him for 3 years now. This photo was taken out of his office window at his house. This buck makes one or two appearances a year and Denny has been lucky enough to video him each time.
August Winner
Brad Jacobs submitted the winning photo for August 2008.
July Winner
Kevin Smithbower, of Colver, Pa., keeps a feeder in his yard to watch the deer and other animals. Suprisingly, he caught this bear on camera stealing from his feeder. This is the first time that he has had a bear at his feeder that he knows of. Ken is looking for an alternate method for feeding his new found friend.
January Winner
This mont's winner was submitted by Chuck Keymel of North Rose, NY. He provided this amazing story and additional photos:
I saw this 4-point pieball last year on November 3, 2006. It was prime time evening when it first spotted him at about 35 yards. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I didn't know there was a pieball in the area as we (my hunting buddies and I) had not seen him while hunting or had any pictures of him. It didn't look like I was going to get a good look at him as he was moving away from me but, to my delight, when he hit the logging trial I had planted my tree stand over, he headed right toward me. He stopped broadside at 8 or 10 yrds! He was so cool to look at that close that I almost forgot to shoot.
I drew my recurve and proceeded to shoot cleanly over the top of him. All those spots and I forgot to pick one. We checked the trail cam and found this picture taken two days before I saw him. This was the only picture we had of him that year, and nobody every saw anything of him that hunting season and beyond.
On Nov 2, 2007 my neighbor and hunting buddy (Phil) called me at work to tell my that his 18-year-old son, Brent, had spotted the buck while he was checking his traps out behind his house. The buck walked right up to him while he was standing in a field, then spooked and ran into the woods heading into my hunting grounds. He was an 8-point now. I caught a glance at him on November 4, but didn't get to see his rack or get a shot a him. I could only see the side of him as he worked a scrape and moved through the brush. A couple of days later Brent's father, Phil, spilled his guts and told me that he had shot over the buck at 10 yards with his recurve. I told him he must be shorter than he looks. A few days later Brent's uncle, Rob, whom I work with and who lives about two miles from us, had almost got a shot at the buck when he was hounding a doe. One step from behind the tree and... but the deer turned and kept the tree between them, never to be seen again. My hunting buddy and neighbor, Todd, got one more picture of the buck about three hours before sunrise opening day of shotgun season, but we never saw him.
Brent called me Thanksgiving morning to ask me if I still mounted deer heads because he had just shot the pieball with his shotgun at ten yrds as it walked right up to him while he was kneeling in the field checking a doe's tracks that he had just missed. It couldn't have ended any better.
This all happened in upstate NY near Lake Ontario in the small town of North Rose.
Chuck chose a bottle of Nosy Whitetail as his prize.
December Winner
John Rizzo of Heilwood, PA is our winner for December. John got these deer on his Cuddeback infared camera on July 27th, 2007 at 6:08 p.m. He had been watching this group of bucks and a couple larger ones all summer long. When the season came around John and his son were hunting when the smaller buck shown in the photo came within 20 yards from John, but he couldn’t get a clear shot. His son was positioned 20 yards in the other direction, but the deer never presented him with a shot.
John chose a bottle of Nosy Whitetail for his prize.
Rules
All photos e-mailed to Cory prior to the last day of any month will be considered for that particular month. Only one photo will be selected per month. Photos not chosen may be considered for future months, and there is no need to resend the photo. Their is no stipulation as to when the photo had to be taken. However, the photo must be from a trail cameara and must be accompanied by a description of where and when the photo was taken, and any other pertinent information. Winners will receive a free 2 oz. bottle of the Apparition attractant scent of their choosing. You may only win two times per year. Appalachian Whitetails reserves the right to reject any photo for any reason. Their must be at least three entries per month before prizes are awarded. Good luck!
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