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East Texas #5940664 09/22/15 02:48 PM
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I have a lot of pictures of deer actually in day light hours eating corn. I haven't seen any large bucks yet though. What else are you guys seeing?

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Similar observation in Nacogdoches county.

I'm on public land and have seen quite a few does durring daylight hours on cameras. Not very many bucks yet though (day or night).

Last year by this time I had 2 good bucks patterned. My theory is that high river water for a couple of months pushed them out durring the spring and they have settled elsewhere for now. No doubt that they will start to come back around though. Having does around now means bucks later.

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Sounds like a very good theory. I'm honestly just excited to actually have deer coming in during the daylight hours. Last year, 80% of my pictures were at night.

I have the two small bucks that are just all over the property, but like you, still waiting to see that big boy. I can't wait for bow season in two weeks.

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I have 7300 pictures of pigs in 21 days. Zero deer. Pig heard numbers 19. Moving from feeder to feeder twice a day. They are a -2 as of last Saturday.

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I haven't actually seen my SD card in a cpl months, but apparently I'm getting the same group of bucks over and over and over, no does and the motherload of hogs. Sooo, feeders have already been shut off. Will likely keep them that way this year.

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I'm close to Tyler and I've only seen a few doe and fawns during daylight hours. Most of my buck pictures from my two game cameras show them coming out at last light, or just after it gets dark. For years my corn feeder was just providing corn to the hogs and that's what I saw mostly. It got so bad last year that I never saw a buck all season. So I fenced in my corn feeder and shot every hog I saw. So far I've only seen a couple of hogs on camera and while out walking around. Hog sign is minimal, and deer sign is everywhere. You can't have both, if hogs show up, the deer will leave. After awhile, I just got bored with shooting hogs.

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Originally Posted By: EddieWalker
I'm close to Tyler and I've only seen a few doe and fawns during daylight hours. Most of my buck pictures from my two game cameras show them coming out at last light, or just after it gets dark. For years my corn feeder was just providing corn to the hogs and that's what I saw mostly. It got so bad last year that I never saw a buck all season. So I fenced in my corn feeder and shot every hog I saw. So far I've only seen a couple of hogs on camera and while out walking around. Hog sign is minimal, and deer sign is everywhere. You can't have both, if hogs show up, the deer will leave. After awhile, I just got bored with shooting hogs.


Eddie, Where are you at roughly.

I have a couple bucks coming in, but mostly hogs 2 times a day. 8 in the morning and 7:45 at night. Like clock work. Friday cant get here quick enough.


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Only photos we have show the bucks moving in the early morning hours well before sunrise.


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I have pictures of deer and pigs eating together. I'm not sure how common that is but its a first for me. I have tons of does every single day for the last week and a half as well as the normal pigs like clock work. I want to go kill a pig but I don't want to throw the deer off for opening weekend next week if I draw blood.

Thoughts on that?

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It's not ultra rare to see them side by side but it's not common at all, probably means there isn't a dominant boar around. I probably wouldn't shoot so close to the season unless with a bow, or the pigs show up before or stay later than the deer.



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My lease in Harrison county shows some does during the day time and an occasional 4 pointer but the other bucks are all nocturnal still. They come to the feeder at about 9:30 and 3:30 in the morning.

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My land in far east Texas, the mature bucks disappear around March and don't come back again until rut. I think they lay up close to water and crops, easy food source. They don't wander as much as does in the summer. Does have fawns and work to do, I have noticed over the years a doe with two fawns will usually get another mature doe straggling along with, her, safety in numbers.
I do see young bucks in the summer, come rut the old boys run them off.

There are acorns again this year at my place, a pretty good crop. But right now with no rain, there are no "ice cream" plants popping up so the does and fawns are hitting the feed hard. 365 is my favorite feed along with corn, hogs will pass it for the most part on and the deer love it.

I run a year round feeder, just for the summer months when it can get hot and dry, that keeps the does around, and come rut, where the does are, so come the bucks.

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The only deer I've seen since spring is at night. It seems like most years the deer are pretty scarce until just after deer season is over in January, then I see a good buck or two on the cameras.


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Checked mine again this week and same thing, lot of does but no bucks yet.


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Near Tyler also and I see mostly does and hogs. Back in the March I saw a few mature bucks late at night while night hunting hogs, but the bucks are not on the camera now.

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Same in Jasper County. Several does, only one small 4 point buck.

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I'm in Madison county

Seeing extremely large amounts of hogs

Seen a couple of 9pts, 10pt, 6pt, 4pt, . And does.

The 10pt wasn't on camera though. Won't come near the feeders yet...But we see him when we go out hog hunting.

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I get good pics of big bucks every year at this time. But none of my cameras are over feeders. Won't find them there. I put mine over well used creek crossings, known trails, and places I hand corn. Haven't checked my cameras since I put them out about a month ago. Will get to check them this Sun and can't wait to see how much bigger they are this year!!!

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Just a few does with a 5 point showing up to the feeder. Both hunts yesterday I had seen some bigger bucks but they stayed about 100 yards out. They still have plenty to eat though.

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I had a mature buck show on 9/29/15. He jumped on a pile of 365 feed and stuffed his belly. He also wandered around my deer camp, saw him on the security camera. He stood a few feet from the porch, I think he smelled some feed I have stored in there. Deer are curious and brave when its not hunting season.

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Originally Posted By: sqiggy
I get good pics of big bucks every year at this time. But none of my cameras are over feeders. Won't find them there. I put mine over well used creek crossings, known trails, and places I hand corn. Haven't checked my cameras since I put them out about a month ago. Will get to check them this Sun and can't wait to see how much bigger they are this year!!!


I went that route with hogs being a major problem this year. Put them on spots that usually have big scrapes and just a cpl pockets in the thickets where bucks tend to hang out and browse. My browse spot activity picked up bc of a scrape showing up, but my community scrape spots have been dry as of last check. I like seeing them get started by older deer instead of yearlings that think every low hanging limb needs a scrape under it.














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Rifle, some nice deer there. I can only report hogs, does and a couple of bucks around the feeders. The bucks seem more hesitant to come to the feeders and instead prefer the ground corn. Have pics of a basket 6 and a ten point but I don't think the ten will make 13"...just a high and forward rack. The does will eat well, though!

This is far south Jasper county, btw.

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Had nothing but hogs all summer, more than i have ever had before differnt groups, even knocked over one of my feeders my game cam had 4000 pics of hogs and then about mid Sept i tried out an idea i had about introducing more deer scent into the area in hopes that if the area smelled more like deer and not just hogs more deer would come in, checked my game cams Oct 4th and i have more deer then hogs now, more bucks then i have ever had and the hogs are coming at night while the deer come out during the day 90% of the time- No idea if it was b/c of what i did might of been the change it temp or just luck


Yall have an idea on age on this guy?









here you can see the stick i coverd in deer scent and didnt get any smelling the stick but once it went up they all started coming





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TxHunter87 - Thats a pretty interesting idea, its always hard to tell with these things whether they are just dumb luck or if you're onto something . What exactly did you use for the deer scent?

I might give it a go.


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