Deer season

EddieWalker · Oct 30, 2019

Lots of good pictures. Rifle season opens for us this Saturday, but so far, my wife hasn't gotten her hunting license for this year, so it might just be me out there.

gsganzer · Oct 31, 2019

I'll try to head to my lease in Central TX on Monday (prior commitments for this weekend). I put a camera out about 2 months ago, but I've been so busy, I haven't been able to pull the card and see what's coming in. Last year I had a great 10 point that needed a little more age, so I passed on him. Hopefully he comes around again this year. Better yet, maybe I can let him make it through one more rut, before someone takes him. I'm mainly a meat hunter, so I usually try to take a cull buck early in the season before the rut and fill out the rest of my tags with does. I leave the nice bucks to one of the members kids or a new hunter, preferably post-rut. My county allows 5 deer with a 2 buck limit.

I'm shooting a new .260Rem this year.

jgedmond · Oct 31, 2019

gsganzer said:
I'll try to head to my lease in Central TX on Monday (prior commitments for this weekend). I put a camera out about 2 months ago, but I've been so busy, I haven't been able to pull the card and see what's coming in. Last year I had a great 10 point that needed a little more age, so I passed on him. Hopefully he comes around again this year. Better yet, maybe I can let him make it through one more rut, before someone takes him. I'm mainly a meat hunter, so I usually try to take a cull buck early in the season before the rut and fill out the rest of my tags with does. I leave the nice bucks to one of the members kids or a new hunter, preferably post-rut. My county allows 5 deer with a 2 buck limit.

I'm shooting a new .260Rem this year.

Me and my 7mm-08 are looking forward to the rifle season opener this Saturday on the "back 30". Always a few nice bucks at the protein feeder every September / October. Some years one adopts our land as part of his home range to chase does, some years it's just a few younger bucks.

EddieWalker · Nov 1, 2019

Looking at my latest game camera pics, I'm counting at least 5 does and just as many bucks all of a sudden. They does are eating what I've planted, and the bucks seem to be running around, back and forth. This is new behavior, which I'm thinking means the rut is starting to happen. Usually deer season starts the second weekend of November, but for some reason it's a week early this year.

Shaneard · Nov 1, 2019

Bucks are thick this year. Opening day of muzzle loader in the morning.

Otto Syracuse · Nov 1, 2019

Good luck! Shoot straight!

oosik · Nov 2, 2019

I think the deer are winning here, so far, this year. No snow to do any tracking and I've heard no shots. Two weeks ago a fellow got a nice elk about five miles SE of me. Those pictures of your deer - nice looking animals. They sure do like your feeding areas.

Around these parts it's one deer per person per year. Whether you are bow or muzzle or modern. You folks must be overrun with deer.

Shaneard · Nov 2, 2019

We get two buck tags, I just punched my second. Been hunting 3 times this year. So blessed.

EddieWalker · Nov 2, 2019

Shaneard said:
Bucks are thick this year. Opening day of muzzle loader in the morning.

Love seeing all your pics of great bucks. You really live in an amazing place!!!

Shaneard · Nov 2, 2019

EddieWalker said:
Love seeing all your pics of great bucks. You really live in an amazing place!!!

We’re so blessed to have somewhere to hunt. They have built so many houses around here. This isn’t the biggest one on camera but my wife hasn’t gotten anything this year and I hope she can get one or two of the big ones.

widefat · Nov 2, 2019

Shaneard said:
We’re so blessed to have somewhere to hunt. They have built so many houses around here. This isn’t the biggest one on camera but my wife hasn’t gotten anything this year and I hope she can get one or two of the big ones.

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You sound like a super nice guy, of the rare types that just makes everyone around them happy. I wish more people were like you.

wdchyd · Nov 3, 2019

New Hampshire Muzzleloader Opening Day.........
Went out at first light with a buddy to a spot in southern NH somewhere between here and there. A little brisk early, found myself on a pussyfoot spot and stalk still hunt. 2.5 hrs into the am I thought I jumped up a buck, but soon realized he was on the run checking his scapes. He made a mistake keeping his nose too long in the scrape....

BOOOOOMMMMMM..................7pt, 154#

Being a bunch of old guys it took longer to drag him out of the woods.

Funny with all the posts above about game cams, while dragging this guy out we bumped into a hunter in a tree stand. He came down and said he had this buck on camera most of the summer, and walked away with no words. :confused3:

Shaneard · Nov 4, 2019

wdchyd said:
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New Hampshire Muzzleloader Opening Day.........
Went out at first light with a buddy to a spot in southern NH somewhere between here and there. A little brisk early, found myself on a pussyfoot spot and stalk still hunt. 2.5 hrs into the am I thought I jumped up a buck, but soon realized he was on the run checking his scapes. He made a mistake keeping his nose too long in the scrape....

BOOOOOMMMMMM..................7pt, 154#

Being a bunch of old guys it took longer to drag him out of the woods.

Funny with all the posts above about game cams, while dragging this guy out we bumped into a hunter in a tree stand. He came down and said he had this buck on camera most of the summer, and walked away with no words. :confused3:

Congratulations! Nice buck.

Yeah people get deer on camera around here and think they own the deer. I don’t get it. I love getting pictures and seeing what’s there but they are by no means our deer. With horns comes jealousy sometimes. Glad I’m not that way!

Shaneard · Nov 4, 2019

I had some pictures of this deer up until about two weeks ago. Friend got him Saturday morning 1/2 a mile away. He and I get a lot of the same deer on camera and he winds up shooting most of them, lol.

Thomas · Nov 4, 2019

wdchyd said:
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New Hampshire Muzzleloader Opening Day.........
Went out at first light with a buddy to a spot in southern NH somewhere between here and there. A little brisk early, found myself on a pussyfoot spot and stalk still hunt. 2.5 hrs into the am I thought I jumped up a buck, but soon realized he was on the run checking his scapes. He made a mistake keeping his nose too long in the scrape....

BOOOOOMMMMMM..................7pt, 154#

Being a bunch of old guys it took longer to drag him out of the woods.

Funny with all the posts above about game cams, while dragging this guy out we bumped into a hunter in a tree stand. He came down and said he had this buck on camera most of the summer, and walked away with no words. :confused3:

:thumbsup:

wdchyd · Nov 4, 2019

Shaneard said:
I had some pictures of this deer up until about two weeks ago. Friend got him Saturday morning 1/2 a mile away. He and I get a lot of the same deer on camera and he winds up shooting most of them, lol.

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Oh My, you guys growem big down there......Congrats:thumbsup:

I do understand the disappointment from very diligent hunters and I respect that. But the last few years I have not done any pre scouting but rather I show up to familiar spots when the season opens. One of the reasons I like hunting and fishing is it’s a game of chance, everyone has the same possibility of blasting a big boy or catching a monster fish.
I do take it a little personal when a guy sets his tree stand thinking that no one else in the world hasn’t seen this spot and he claims it for his own, then I show up before him and he tries to boot me out, claims it’s his spot he’s been hunting all bow season. If i see a guy in the tree I about face quietly and move on.

Edit: Public land only