re: Planting 75 sawtooth seedlings today and tomorrow

Good question. In my case, it’s a couple of reasons. I would only kill a velvet buck that I would mount, and I will only mount mature bucks. So it’s not like I would kill a 1.5 or 2.5 yo buck in velvet. Second is that these sawtooths drop heavy in Sep, before MS archery season opens on Oct 1. It’s deer central in there in Sep and it’s pretty exciting anytime there are that many deer around all times of the day.

So the buck is at the taxidermist and I will hang his arse next to my few other mounts in my man cabin. To me, mounts are like photo’s; they remind me of the excitement of that particular hunt and harvest.