My friends have an apple tree in their yard and take a lot of apples up to their cabin in the fall. They got a lot of pics of deer and some of a bear too. All within spitting distance from where I pitch my tent, but they wait until I pack it up before putting the apples out.

 

Ignore the date - this was actually taken the 1st week of march 2018 in my yard.

 

Last year on my hunting land. Damn bears tend to be hard on feeders. One of them even tried to open the gravity box that we use to haul feed.

 

It's amazing what a bear will get if it wants it. Friend of mine would get the metal 55 gallon drums of gummi bears, and leave the lid on. They would tear that lid right off, and roll that barrel all over like nothing. Took him and I all we had to get those barrels into his truck.
He also had a spray bottle of some super strong cherry concentrate, that he would spray stumps with. They would shred them into mulch. Same went for the shed that he left the bottle in. Just destroyed it.

 

My friends stored some apples in their pop-up camper and a bear tried to open the door. It must have been a small one not to break the door right off.

Nice pics DeeDawg. A friend of my dad moved out of the city to a much nicer area and fed the deer right out of his kitchen window. I watched him toss apples out in the front yard and they'd walk right up and eat them. He had names for a bunch of them but the only one I can remember was Mickey Mouse. I think that one had big ears.

 

I have way too many in the yard to give them names. My brother and I must have saw at least 30 deer at one time in the yard.

 

You must have a freezer full of venison.

 

Nope; I don't have any. I travel too much and don't get enough time to eat it. Any meat I get I give a way. I do get in some over seas hunts, though...

 

I'm not a traveling man. I haven't left the country since I got back from Germany, West Germany back then, in 1984. Except for a few gambling trips to Canada that I just remembered. It was kind of weird living in the same barracks the Germans did until 1945, with a bunch of our helicopters sitting on the same airfield the Luftwaffe used for their bombers. And there were nukes all over the place, and spy satellites above that we had to wait for to pass over before going out on maneuvers. I had enough of that life, but respect anyone who served or is still serving.

DeeDawg is short for Devil Dog, right? I'm a former Red Devil, myself. 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized). I don't use division patches for avatars but instead shrunk these 2 pics down to use on another forum.

 

I love to travel, and spend about 90% of the year overseas for both work and holiday.

Yes, it stands for Devil Dog. I spent some time in the Corps.