December is when a buck looks his best. The rack he grew over the summer has hardened, and he carries it everywhere he goes. By the end of winter it drops off, and come spring he starts a new one from nothing.
We cut this one standing broadside with his head turned toward you: full rack, white throat patch, legs planted. It is the look you get for about two seconds at the edge of a field before he decides you are not worth staying for.
Set it where it will be lit from behind — on the tree by the drive, over the walk, above the mailbox. It reads best at dusk, which in December is most of the afternoon. And it doesn’t have to come down with the lights in January. A deer on the tree line looks right all winter.
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