Forums46
Topics536,997
Posts9,719,301
Members86,987
|
Most Online25,604 Feb 12th, 2024
|
|
|
Not having any luck at all!!!!
#6017602
11/08/15 03:03 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2015
Posts: 868
Txhillbilly
OP
Tracker
|
OP
Tracker
Joined: Aug 2015
Posts: 868 |
All of my deer have disappeared. There are 2 young bucks a 6pt&8pt,and 2 nocturnal does. That's all that's been on my cameras for the last 2-3 weeks,other than the usual sounder of hogs. I only heard 4-5 shots in this area since daylight yesterday,and that is very strange.
I haven't seen anything other than birds today,I guess I'll call it a bust for opening weekend and drive home and watch football in the easy chair.
|
|
|
Re: Not having any luck at all!!!!
[Re: Txhillbilly]
#6017631
11/08/15 03:13 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 60,296
stxranchman
Obie Juan Kenobi
|
Obie Juan Kenobi
Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 60,296 |
I had the same thing happen when it rained a 2 weeks ago now. The bucks/does left the feeders and started chasing the fresh green new growth. I have new growth oats also and they are hitting it a bit now. I have seen some young bucks and some does, but the bucks are dogging the does and running them off the plots and feeders. TC pic numbers have dropped way off at the feeders, most deer stay for a couple of minutes and then leave that do come to feeders. I did see a mature buck at very first light eating corn on the road, but he took off after a doe and ran her around. He never came back in. I did have some young bucks stay on corn till 8 or so. I think if I get some sunshine this afternoon the deer will really move better for me.
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
|
|
|
Re: Not having any luck at all!!!!
[Re: Txhillbilly]
#6017634
11/08/15 03:16 PM
|
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 29,010
Western
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 29,010 |
Same as STX, as soon as my oats and wheat got about 3", feeder use dropped by 75% at least. Which is fine, see the young g ones still on the corn and protein, but see much more activity in the food plots.
If at first you dont succeed, then skydiving is not for you..
"Don't trust everything you read on the Internet"- Abraham Lincoln Dennis
|
|
|
Re: Not having any luck at all!!!!
[Re: Txhillbilly]
#6017653
11/08/15 03:25 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 11,958
kry226
The General
|
The General
Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 11,958 |
But it can all change in the blink of an eye.
|
|
|
Re: Not having any luck at all!!!!
[Re: Txhillbilly]
#6017671
11/08/15 03:35 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 197
TravisP
Woodsman
|
Woodsman
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 197 |
I had deer coming to my feeder everyday on around the 27th of oct. Not a damn thing now. Nocturnal. Plus with the neighbors dogs running em off. It's been a bust for opening day for me too. Not a single deer in sight. I heard 3 shots all morning. I saw a niiiiccee 12pt. Down the road in someone's yard and a few does off to the side of the road yesterday but nothing by the blinds.
Hunting in magnolia would be better in a gated community.
|
|
|
Re: Not having any luck at all!!!!
[Re: kry226]
#6017690
11/08/15 03:44 PM
|
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 29,010
Western
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 29,010 |
But it can all change in the blink of an eye. Damn str8!, main reason I still crawl out of a warm bed to get in a froze blind LOL
If at first you dont succeed, then skydiving is not for you..
"Don't trust everything you read on the Internet"- Abraham Lincoln Dennis
|
|
|
Re: Not having any luck at all!!!!
[Re: Txhillbilly]
#6017739
11/08/15 04:11 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 14,948
don k
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 14,948 |
The Bucks have really stated after the Does this morning. Saw 4 different ones chasing. The younger ones did not seemed to be interested in them.
|
|
|
Re: Not having any luck at all!!!!
[Re: Txhillbilly]
#6017780
11/08/15 04:56 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2014
Posts: 2,136
EddieWalker
Veteran Tracker
|
Veteran Tracker
Joined: Aug 2014
Posts: 2,136 |
Kind of relieved to hear that I'm not the only one frustrated by the deer and their disappearing act!!! Twp legal bucks on camera, one has been here just about every night for the past six months with his little buddy. Then the big 9 from last year shows up at 9am just before the storms hit. Now I can't even find any deer tracks anywhere near my food plot, mineral lick or deer feeder.
|
|
|
Re: Not having any luck at all!!!!
[Re: Txhillbilly]
#6017799
11/08/15 05:14 PM
|
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 825
Spent Brass
Tracker
|
Tracker
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 825 |
Same here, Upshur county. Nothing at the feeders but tracks everywhere else. A 60lb sow took a dirt nap last night at dark. Just redbirds and a cottontail today.
Last edited by Spent Brass; 11/08/15 05:14 PM.
|
|
|
Moderated by bigbob_ftw, CCBIRDDOGMAN, Chickenman, Derek, DeRico, Duck_Hunter, hetman, jeh7mmmag, JustWingem, kmon11, kry226, kwrhuntinglab, Payne, pertnear, rifleman, sig226fan (Rguns.com), Superduty, TreeBass, txcornhusker
|