Let's see them hidden! Tines in the brush and the like

[snopro176]

All week I've been behind the glass thinking about how, even more than wanting to find a buck walking around, I want to find one hidden, one I would normally pass up in the glass. To me nothing is more exciting than catching a tine in the brush. Post whatever you got, bucks or whatever, bedded, hiding, or just plain hard to find.

Ill go first. Glassed him up at 500+ and watched him go out of site for a good while into a small pocket where I figured he'd bed. After I got over there, I glassed my ass off thinking maybe he gave me the slip. I ended up finding him curled up, asleep like a dog between 2 huge rocks. Waited 2 hours for the sun to hit the sliver he was bedded in that ultimately got him to stand, and ended up shooting him at 40. Had I not seen him before, I guarantee I would've not noticed him there all curled up

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[bigunit]

 

[snopro176]

That's what im talking about

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[Walkstoomuch]

my kind of “Where’s Waldo”

 

[voltage]

 

[wpeach1912]

Not a deer, but a bear I found a few years ago. We spotted him at about 800 yards out feeding and we closed the distance to 250ish. I spotted him sleeping under this tree with my 10x binos then swapped to the 18s for the picture. My buddy shot him shortly after this pic when he got up and walked across the hillside

 

[snopro176]

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That would be unreal to trip across while glassing

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[Pwb199]

Here’s a bull I stumbled across

 

[Pwb199]

And a buck hiding in the rocks

 

[Chris in TN]

The first picture is about a mile from Hatfield knob in east TN. This was January 2015. It was the dead of winter and dad and I went looking for elk. Found them bedded on the side of the road.

The second picture, I found while looking for the first. He lived in a tiny little mountain town with a mixture of public and private land all around, and at the time there was no hunting access to this bull unless he'd packed up and walked several miles in a direction he had no reason to go. He certainly encountered *deer* hunters but had apparently learned they were no threat to him. He was a long bowshot from me when I took this picture.

He was skinny and looked ancient and I wish I had other/better pictures of him saved somewhere. I wish I knew how old he was (and I suspect that someone at TWRA probably did at the time).

 

[The Harbor Master]

Wow, the chances I'd actually see that while glassing are tiny. You guys have great eyes (and great glass I'm assuming!)

 

[KevinInID]

Nice buck! I need to step up my glassing game. Keep these pics coming, great thread idea.

 

[LightFoot]

This was a cool video I caught walking to a stand in Iowa. You look and then all of a sudden you seen a buck hot on a doe.

 

[505Wapiti]

This thread is great and the pics are a reminder that when I’m glassing for mule deer I need to slow down a bit, especially when the movement stops and they are bedded. I’m too antsy sometimes and want to move, now I realize I’ve probably glassed right over a bunch in the past. But that’s hunting I guess… always second guessing.