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August 01, 2012
Forget Hurteau and Name This Buck!
By Scott Bestul
It is now a well-known fact that my compadre, Hurteau, doesn’t care for the naming of bucks. For proof, click here to see the post in which he rants about the trend toward the domestication of deer and the supposed contempt we’ll feel for whitetails if we get too familiar with individuals of their breed.
I happen to disagree. I can trace this opinion to the late 1980s when I read “One Man’s Whitetail” by noted bowhunter Gene Wensel. In answering a question from a reader who fed deer on his property in the winter and then worried that he was “hunting his pets” come fall, Wensel said, “If you call them and they don’t come, they ain’t pets.” I couldn’t agree more. I ponder all kinds of ethical issues in whitetail hunting, but the naming bucks isn’t even on my radar. And it wouldn’t be on Hurteau’s, either, if he got more than one trail cam pic of a buck each year!
What I am pondering, however, is a better name for this buck, which just showed up in front of one of my cams after a long absence. Last year, I unimaginatively dubbed him “Double Forks” after cameras snapped three pics of him in October, two (including the one here) in November, and another handful in January. I’ve still never seen the deer, which proves another point about trail cameras that I’ve long held; instead of ruining the mystery or helping me kill a buck, they more often reveal just how mysterious and hard to kill a buck can be. I think trail cams are just a lot of fun—and part of that is naming a buck like this one. Any ideas?
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Comments (45)
You've got pictures of him but have never seen him.
houdini
Seems he's always pictured near some corn...why not "Cornhole"? If that's too off-color, what about "Cornbread"?
Hopefully you get to name him "Dinner" this deer season.
I love it.
The truth is I didn't even get one trail-cam pic (because I didn't put out any cams). Just as milk chocolate is for people who don't like chocolate; trail cams are for people who don't like to hunt.
Kidding, kidding....
I'd name him MC Hammer, cause "you can't touch this."
There is only one name to give a deer as sly, smart and cagey as the one photo. Dave Hurteau.
Later this fall your blog title will say, "How I Shot Dave Hurteau".
Scott - I'm not all that creative with names either...but I did notice immediately that the pictures shown are day-time pictures. If you can consistently get day-time pictures of that buck at a trail camera location, you stand a pretty good chance of killing him early in the season. It's one thing to get a picture of a deer...its another to use your trail cameras as real tools to narrow down a buck's daytime home range.
I guess if I had to give him a name, it would be "Trifecta" because of the triple point G2 on the right hand side.
He has the face of a Fred.
Buckhunter,
I'm hoping to get out and hunt with Bestul this fall, and if I get a chance to put an arrow in Dave Hurteau, he's going down!
The GG2 Buck - Short and sweet
Deer . . . Beer. . . Beef . . .I say you call him "The Beef"
“If you call them and they don’t come, they ain’t pets.”-So you're saying my cat is fair game? Good. Can't wait to tell my wife.
"If you call them and they don’t come, they ain’t pets"
The flip side of this is wild deer can be trained to respond to sounds associated with food when food is scarce. For example, during the winter the sound of a game feeder going off can act like a dinner bell and deer will literally be feeding at the feeder within 5 minutes. Also, I have witnessed several instances of deer coming to people calling (my father being one of them...he almost had them feeding out of the bucket this year)! I actually have this on film from one of our deer trapping expeditions in PA. We loved it when people had deer trained because those deer could be captured on our schedule...all we needed to do was call to them or bang on a bucket and they would come running into our set-up. What was even more amazing is after all the stress we put them through, they still came to the people who called them, and yes...they all had names!
fish hook for that kicker off his right G2
"Spook" would be my name for that buck.
Please don't pick on Dave. He comes from a part of the country where the bucks are too few and ugly to photograph. Hence, he never learned to properly deploy a trail cam.
The 1st thing that popped into my head looking at the top photo was "Shoeless Joe" a la Field of Dreams.
I agree with the previous poster. Name him Dave Hurteau!
Thanks, Douglas. I knew you'd have my back.
noodle neck
I would just call him "nice".
Jimmy Two Tines
yup buckhunter stoll my thought. I can see the headlines now, "Dave Hurteau shot on opening day."
HERCULES!!!!!
"Moonlight" Graham
How about "the Elusive Eleven"
"Waddell's Wet Dream."
I'm gonna say "Waldo" because this year when you're in your stand and he's not around you be saying "where's Waldo"
Definitely looks like a "Tiny" or maybe a "Smalls" to me.
*Note: You might not want to name the buck "Dave Hurteau". Or it may not be long before word spreads that you're trying to 'bang' him...
Matt Fox, I like your style but I think this buck should be named En Vouge Because "You're never gonna get it".
Triceratops
"Triple split and a kicker"
This buck is the "Bullwinkle" in that area!
Fizz.
The best ad slogans are short and sweet and so it should be with this buck...
IN YOUR DREAMS
Jim
Because he is always looking at the trail camera. He knows something ain't right. Name him: Curiosity. It killed the cat and it will of him in too.
Name him Peek-A-Boo
I do not know about the rest of you but i will call him "target" and im sure if he walked your way you would think of him as just that....
If I were hunting that are, I'd simply name him... "Mine".
Sticker points & a kicker? Sounds sticky to me. Call him "Burdock"
"Wheredgo"
From the redneck dictionary.
Every time I get a picture of a nice sized buck I end up in my ground blind asking myself "where did he go"
Pippi Long Tines
"Boss"
Junk G-2
SLY
He has the family bones!
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“If you call them and they don’t come, they ain’t pets.”-So you're saying my cat is fair game? Good. Can't wait to tell my wife.
There is only one name to give a deer as sly, smart and cagey as the one photo. Dave Hurteau.
Later this fall your blog title will say, "How I Shot Dave Hurteau".
Buckhunter,
I'm hoping to get out and hunt with Bestul this fall, and if I get a chance to put an arrow in Dave Hurteau, he's going down!
Hopefully you get to name him "Dinner" this deer season.
noodle neck
You've got pictures of him but have never seen him.
houdini
Seems he's always pictured near some corn...why not "Cornhole"? If that's too off-color, what about "Cornbread"?
I love it.
The truth is I didn't even get one trail-cam pic (because I didn't put out any cams). Just as milk chocolate is for people who don't like chocolate; trail cams are for people who don't like to hunt.
Kidding, kidding....
I'd name him MC Hammer, cause "you can't touch this."
Scott - I'm not all that creative with names either...but I did notice immediately that the pictures shown are day-time pictures. If you can consistently get day-time pictures of that buck at a trail camera location, you stand a pretty good chance of killing him early in the season. It's one thing to get a picture of a deer...its another to use your trail cameras as real tools to narrow down a buck's daytime home range.
I guess if I had to give him a name, it would be "Trifecta" because of the triple point G2 on the right hand side.
He has the face of a Fred.
The GG2 Buck - Short and sweet
Deer . . . Beer. . . Beef . . .I say you call him "The Beef"
"If you call them and they don’t come, they ain’t pets"
The flip side of this is wild deer can be trained to respond to sounds associated with food when food is scarce. For example, during the winter the sound of a game feeder going off can act like a dinner bell and deer will literally be feeding at the feeder within 5 minutes. Also, I have witnessed several instances of deer coming to people calling (my father being one of them...he almost had them feeding out of the bucket this year)! I actually have this on film from one of our deer trapping expeditions in PA. We loved it when people had deer trained because those deer could be captured on our schedule...all we needed to do was call to them or bang on a bucket and they would come running into our set-up. What was even more amazing is after all the stress we put them through, they still came to the people who called them, and yes...they all had names!
fish hook for that kicker off his right G2
"Spook" would be my name for that buck.
Please don't pick on Dave. He comes from a part of the country where the bucks are too few and ugly to photograph. Hence, he never learned to properly deploy a trail cam.
The 1st thing that popped into my head looking at the top photo was "Shoeless Joe" a la Field of Dreams.
I agree with the previous poster. Name him Dave Hurteau!
Thanks, Douglas. I knew you'd have my back.
I would just call him "nice".
Jimmy Two Tines
yup buckhunter stoll my thought. I can see the headlines now, "Dave Hurteau shot on opening day."
HERCULES!!!!!
"Moonlight" Graham
How about "the Elusive Eleven"
"Waddell's Wet Dream."
I'm gonna say "Waldo" because this year when you're in your stand and he's not around you be saying "where's Waldo"
Definitely looks like a "Tiny" or maybe a "Smalls" to me.
*Note: You might not want to name the buck "Dave Hurteau". Or it may not be long before word spreads that you're trying to 'bang' him...
Matt Fox, I like your style but I think this buck should be named En Vouge Because "You're never gonna get it".
Triceratops
"Triple split and a kicker"
This buck is the "Bullwinkle" in that area!
Fizz.
The best ad slogans are short and sweet and so it should be with this buck...
IN YOUR DREAMS
Jim
Because he is always looking at the trail camera. He knows something ain't right. Name him: Curiosity. It killed the cat and it will of him in too.
Name him Peek-A-Boo
I do not know about the rest of you but i will call him "target" and im sure if he walked your way you would think of him as just that....
If I were hunting that are, I'd simply name him... "Mine".
Sticker points & a kicker? Sounds sticky to me. Call him "Burdock"
"Wheredgo"
From the redneck dictionary.
Every time I get a picture of a nice sized buck I end up in my ground blind asking myself "where did he go"
Pippi Long Tines
"Boss"
Junk G-2
SLY
He has the family bones!
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