--2011 Official Deer Thread--

[ylwfever69]

Well those are some nice deer! Now I know why I havent got any yet, everybody else shot them all.

 

[HICKMAN]

Drove around Lawrence, Green, Daviees and Martin Counties going to my parents for Thanksgiving... didn't see a single deer ANY WHERE.

They must be in Vegas for a venison convention or something.

 

[ghitch75]

Drove around Lawrence, Green, Daviees and Martin Counties going to my parents for Thanksgiving... didn't see a single deer ANY WHERE.

They must be in Vegas for a venison convention or something.

take you a light and go drive down Dry Branch Rd (1 mile west of the gate) and there will be more deer than you can shake a stick at!!!

 

[JDubb]

Seen 3 does today from 7-11:45a.m., had 1 come in to the coyote call around 10:30 just about got ran over on that one!

All in all pretty good day

 

[HICKMAN]

take you a light and go drive down Dry Branch Rd (1 mile west of the gate) and there will be more deer than you can shake a stick at!!!

heh, I can drive around some of the non-hunting areas on Crane and see 100 does at a time.

 

[clfergus]

heh, I can drive around some of the non-hunting areas on Crane and see 100 does at a time.

HICKMAN... I bet next week will be a good one. Cold temps, possible snow will ahve them out in a feeding frenzy. Hopefully it will continue into the 3rd and smell of black powder will be in the air.

 

[Mr.Lubie]

Pulled the trail cam card from one I have in the woods just behind our garage and look who showed up on it last night grrrrrrr

 

[HICKMAN]

HICKMAN... I bet next week will be a good one. Cold temps, possible snow will ahve them out in a feeding frenzy. Hopefully it will continue into the 3rd and smell of black powder will be in the air.

yeah, looks tomorrow evening will still start the cooling

Deer seasons end on Sunday and pick up again on Saturday the 3rd, as well as late Turkey season with the bow.

Think the boy and I will head out to the farm this afternoon for a little bassfishing at the pond and drop some squirrels.

Temps drop tomorrow afternoon, so he and I will be in a blind looking for deer then.

 

[cschwanz]

Weather sure does look good next week....when we cant hunt, haha. I was out Wed and thurs. working to day but ill be back out this weekend, if the rain doesnt scare me off....

 

[TGUNTER]

Had a pretty good morning. Buck and doe.

 

[coltaceguy]

Going out tomorrow afternoon, we shall see how it goes..

 

[selinoid44]

I'm going out in the morning to try and see if I can bag doe #3. Going to try my fence row blind again.

 

[Indianajeff]

FINALLY!!!
I have hunted the same woods for 20 years, it used to be a deer haven, now they have put in two houses south of the woods. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal, but people are trespassing out there, I have found numerous paint balls and pop cans around the woods. This is good enough for now, meat in the freezer.

 

[ghitch75]

FINALLY!!!
I have hunted the same woods for 20 years, it used to be a deer haven, now they have put in two houses south of the woods. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal, but people are trespassing out there, I have found numerous paint balls and pop cans around the woods. This is good enough for now, meat in the freezer.

thats a big doe!!!!.....nice kill!!!

 

[Indianajeff]

Thank you. Yes she is. I saw her buy herself and thought she was big, but there were other does walking up to her so I waited till they got close to her so I could compare size, and my first thought was right, she was big.

 

[selinoid44]

Nice doe! It's hard to kill a nice mature doe a lot of times. They are always on guard.

 

[rkesar]

My cousin shot this buck friday morning. He was sitting on the ground and he shot him at 15 yards

 

[selinoid44]

My cousin shot this buck friday morning. He was sitting on the ground and he shot him at 15 yards

I'd be too! Nice buck.

 

[DarkRose]

Darn these ethics!

Went out with dad Friday...
Could have had meat in the freezer but I was raised ethical and all that...

Had just gotten settled in my stand when I heard noise REAL close under me, looked down and there was a deer sniffing and circling the scent canister I'd hung in a tree less than 20 yards away... (Whitetail Labs Hot Buck fyi)

Problem is, it was 6:40am, legal shooting time wasn't till about 7:05... Five or ten minutear early may be one thing, but 30 minutes early is a whole different story, I wanted to shoot SO bad, but didn't... after about ten minutes it wandered off behind me (never spooked) and disappeared...

Saw a nice doe about 8:00 am, maybe 100-120 yards off through the woods, too far for a shot through the brush, wasn't going to try to thread the needle at that distance...

We've determined we have a morning woods... Probably a solid 95% of the deer taken from our woods have all been in the morning, you rarely even see anything in the afternoon or evening... Morning can be like a zoo, saw two deer, 4 squirrels, 2 turkey, and a metric sh@t-ton (gotta be precise) of other assorted winged annoyances, crows and woodpeckers mainly, the two that will drive ya crazy! One squirrel wanted to pay me a visit, got halfway up my tree and was looking up at me looking down at him and decided he didn't want to do that...

A bad day hunting is still better than a good day at work! And saw a HUGE racked buck Thursday night on the way to the woods. Not a huge body, but the rack was BIG, the whole deer was out of proportion, lol.

 

[Dargasonus]

Went out with dad Friday...
Could have had meat in the freezer but I was raised ethical and all that...

Good call, like to see people following the rules.