Hopefully the 8 will keep moving his visits to the left and be there before 1800hrs this weekend. I think I saw him Saturday but it was way too dark and I couldn't be sure. I really hope he shows up this weekend…when the sun is up.

This is also the first 10-point I've seen on the ranch. I hope like heck he can make it a few years and become what he is meant to be.

I do not have a single picture of any deer at my feeder during daylight. All of them have gone nocturnal. Does. Young bucks. Mature bucks. All of them visit only during the night.

I hope you get him.
We had a lot of deer around here all summer. Then these fall rains made everything start growing, and then acorns were everywhere. I see deer eating off the ground all over the place, except at my feeder.

Was really hoping for a solid freeze and maybe that'd shake things up. However, it's going to be almost 80 the next week. Man oh man...

I saw 5 does Thursday morning - those were the first deer I had seen at all since opening weekend when my son killed a 9-point…and I spent dozens of hours in the blind.

This morning this guy showed up. I was watching a bunch of dove with my binos. When I dropped the glasses, there he stood. 60 seconds after that he was done.

I've been so frustrated having not seen anything all year. Today it seems like it was all worth it.



Nice hill country buck. He had a split ear, two broken tines, and multiple scars healing on his neck and face.

Congrats!
Patience paid off and the hunt sounded very enjoyable being more than a short sit.

T

Yeah, I feel your pain. I hunted 5 1/2 days. Taking only one hr a day to get out of the blind, and stretch the old legs out. I even slept in the blind. It was like my very own prison. But my thinking was the more time in the blind the better my chances. For all my effort I ended up getting skunked. I take my son out last week and in a 26 hrs he bags a really nice 10 pointer and a cull buck. Only good thing about that is all the meat comes home with me. But this season I will get skunked.

Sucks when that happens. I was certain I was going to get skunked this season, too. So happy I bumped into this dude. It gets so frustrating.

As I left our place yesterday, there was a mature 17" 10pt in the neighbor's place about 100 yards from the fence. I waved and drove on.