Pictures from the field

The trick to taking pictures through the scope seems to be there is no trick, I try and hold the camera where my eye would be. Unfortunately I can't always tell if their head is up or the light is good through the viewing screen.

I found a few bucks, but no bulls. The last 2 pics are from a buddy.
This is a little 2 point. Not super exciting, but where there is one buck, there may be more.
If you look hard you can see his antlers, covered in velvet, and two points on each side. Antlers are different than horns, as they are shed and regrown each year. Velvet is a blood rich coating that moves the building blocks of antlers into position, and once the antlers are full grown the velvet is scaped off on bushes and trees.
This is a medium 4 point. You can see the red coloring standing out against the green. The velvet is sensitive and keeps the bucks out of the really thick brush. The deer also seem to be eating the more moisture rich vegatation during the hot months, and more of the scrubby browse in the fall.
I'm still working on zooming in without making the pictures too dark.
This is a big buck, though not a monster like some of the others in his genetic herd. If you compare this guy to the little two point, you can see how much more visual space his antlers take up. So if I see a deer a long ways off, and I look at him through the scope and don't immediately see antlers, he's probably too young and I need to move to another.
In this picture you can see the inside of his antlers are wider than his ears. This is generally held to be the beginning requirement for a BIG buck, and a spred of 30 inches on the outside is a monster buck, usually.
The top 4 photos were taken at a couple miles away, and the bottom two were at 600 yards.