Ready for Dear Season to start this weekend
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MossRoad
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YIKES! Nice looking deer. :thumbsup:
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A couple weeks ago, my neighbor said he saw a large doe and a fawn on his game camera in our back yards. The very next day the fawn was dead on the side of the road and the doe was found alive, but injured, under a neighbors deck and had to be put down. Couple nights later I saw a large doe down the block and a nice buck a couple blocks later. We've never had deer in this area until the last three years. Now they're popping up everywhere. I was out at our rural tree farm the other day and saw lots of scrapes on the ground. This is our 2nd year that we've had acorns from our trees planted in 1989. I let a neighbor hunt it and he says there are some very nice deer since the acorns started.
Good luck with your hunts this year, folks! :thumbsup:
Good luck with your hunts this year, folks! :thumbsup:
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That is a good looking buck. I have an 8 point that shows up on my game camera in my backyard. I have hunted with bow out back many times and taken a few decent bucks and probly a dozen doe over the years. Our neighborhood has large lots. Average is 6 acres and we have an urban archery season for does.
This year I have been focusing my efforts on scouting and hunting ithe land we bought. I took 2 doe last weekend with muzzle loader. The rut behavior seems to be slow starting around here. Acorn crop is really heavy this year. I wanted to put in a food plot but would have to plant something in the edge of the swamp since nothing is cleared yet and I think I missed the window for this year.
This year I have been focusing my efforts on scouting and hunting ithe land we bought. I took 2 doe last weekend with muzzle loader. The rut behavior seems to be slow starting around here. Acorn crop is really heavy this year. I wanted to put in a food plot but would have to plant something in the edge of the swamp since nothing is cleared yet and I think I missed the window for this year.
turnkey4099
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I didn't know there was a season for dears, I hunt them year round. Now deers is a different matter 
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EddieWalker
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Funny, I didn't ever realize I had misspelled deer!!! But it was probably a hint of what to expect. So far we haven't seen a single animal. We went from several days of rain, to blue skies, warm and windy. Good thing deer season is two months long, we're going to need it.
Our area (Western KY) is absolutely overrun by deer. I'm pretty sure they have a convention on my farm. I don't mind deer, but I'm not a hunter either.
My Father-in-law is completely deer-crazy. Always has been. He's got feeders, cameras, stands, blinds, etc. set up in the back field where we let him hunt. And he forevermore wants to tell me about the MONSTER BUCKS (his words, not mine) that roam our land.
They are so large, they can shade a team of draft horses at high noon. They can cradle a baby grand in their rack. And they don't so much walk through fields as they "ghost through the meadows".
You may get that I'm a little tired of hearing about it. Every year he shoots 3 to 5 of them, and wants to show me every time and be impressed. I've told him that when he shoots one that's bigger than one of my cows, I'll be impressed.
And his version of hunting is having a blind set up 100 ft (feet, not yards) from the deer feeder that runs for about 2 months and shooting the deer when they show up at feeding time. Not very sporting, if you ask me.
Don't get me wrong - I'm all for deer hunting. There are far, far too many of them - I urge him to kill all he can - just don't bother showing me!
And I'll admit, for the first time in ever, my boy and I have talked about shooting one because we both like deer summer sausage and jerky. However, since we don't have any of the equipment for it, price is prohibitive for what we would get out of it. We can buy it locally for about $4-$5/pound, so we will probably just go that way (and for what it's worth, I can eat regular deer meat, but I don't like it).
Anyway, that's all the rant I have for now.
Good luck to all the hunters out there. Be safe and take care.
My Father-in-law is completely deer-crazy. Always has been. He's got feeders, cameras, stands, blinds, etc. set up in the back field where we let him hunt. And he forevermore wants to tell me about the MONSTER BUCKS (his words, not mine) that roam our land.
They are so large, they can shade a team of draft horses at high noon. They can cradle a baby grand in their rack. And they don't so much walk through fields as they "ghost through the meadows".
You may get that I'm a little tired of hearing about it. Every year he shoots 3 to 5 of them, and wants to show me every time and be impressed. I've told him that when he shoots one that's bigger than one of my cows, I'll be impressed.
And his version of hunting is having a blind set up 100 ft (feet, not yards) from the deer feeder that runs for about 2 months and shooting the deer when they show up at feeding time. Not very sporting, if you ask me.
Don't get me wrong - I'm all for deer hunting. There are far, far too many of them - I urge him to kill all he can - just don't bother showing me!
And I'll admit, for the first time in ever, my boy and I have talked about shooting one because we both like deer summer sausage and jerky. However, since we don't have any of the equipment for it, price is prohibitive for what we would get out of it. We can buy it locally for about $4-$5/pound, so we will probably just go that way (and for what it's worth, I can eat regular deer meat, but I don't like it).
Anyway, that's all the rant I have for now.
Good luck to all the hunters out there. Be safe and take care.
I just saw a nice buck standing broadside in an unposted field. I tried to get a picture, just because it was a shootable deer in season; (I'm not familiar with the area well enough to know where all the houses are) but like a dumb a** I got out of the truck instead of rolling down the window, and in seconds he was gone.
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EddieWalker
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The weekend was a total bust. We enjoyed being out there, but didn't see a single deer. It rained most of Saturday, then cleared up Saturday night. After spending Sunday morning in the blind, I went for a walk to look for tracks. There wasn't a single track anywhere in my food plot or around my deer feeder. Corn is piling up there. Then I walked around my trails and saw that they are all over in the woods eating acorns and not coming out of the thicker woods at all. I'm guessing it's going to be a waiting game until the acorns are done.
