It's the first official day of winter, although our unofficial winter started back in early November with the first big dump of snow and overnight (morning drive to the tree stand) temperatures pushing well below -25 (-15 Fahrenheit). With today's weather adding another layer of snow to our northern forests, it seems like a good time to look back. The 2024 Whitetail Deer season is now a few weeks past. Our clients shot some incredible deer, passed on some of the up and comers, and many have already booked for next year's quest for some of the elusive big bucks still on four legs. We have put together an image gallery below of our favorite 21 Whitetail trail cam deer. Our criteria for which deer have been chosen was pretty loose and entirely subjective. Some of these bucks just have tremendous mass. Some have incredible G2 and G3s. Some with amazing brow tines and drop tines. Some with bucks preparing to square off. Some with enormous spread and others are just so very symmetrical it was hard to exclude them.
Every year there are many stories of the deer that were seen but never presented a good shooting opportunity, or those that chased does through the bait site at nearly full speed then were never seen again. For every deer that is harvested each year, there are countless numbers that our clients have the good sense to let walk away and continue growing. Some of the great news coming out of this season is noticing the number of "almost there" bucks. Not all of the deer roaming our outfitting territory are ready to end up on your wall and some of our top 21 show the tremendous potential that another year of adding mass and inches will produce.
All bucks in the gallery below survived the 2024 hunting season.
