We did have a hail storm and it knocked a bunch of leafs off our Oak trees and left some nice size marks on our stands.

Was out last weekend and man was it green and looking great. It was so green we did not even bother putting out hay in our feeder pins. Really looking forward to this season and can't wait to get back out to set everything up in October.

I don't have cameras going yet. Should be going pretty soon if I can get out there. I'm really looking forward to this year and am anxious to see what's hanging around.

Storms moving into VV from the north right now should give some needed rain.

Depending on where in VV, it looks like the rain was hit and miss. One of our neighbors at Verde West said they got nothing but strong winds last night and was about to head out to check for any wind damage (which makes me nervous about our solar panels…*sigh*). We were out there last weekend and it was freaking hot, but green. Deer are looking really healthy on the game cams.

We had a good rain last night in the Del Rio area. 1"to 2". We hunt between lake Amistad and Laughlin. Rain has been very spotty in southern Val Verde County in June. Deer are in good shape.

My cousin and I went to our place in Pumpville over the weekend and it's still looking pretty green for this time of year. Deer are looking healthy...and darn coons aren't doing bad either. We were very fortunate that most of Saturday was cloudy and not too hot.

I did some repair work on my cabin yesterday. Amistad is way down and old highway bridge is visible from 277/377. 101 F yesterday. Plenty of green brush still doing great. So are the deer, exotics, turkeys, couple of foxes, coons, doves, quail, and a porcupine

What part of the county do you hunt? We came in from New Mexico yesterday on 90 and northern part of the county had water standing in bar ditches but none in Del Rio area. Going out to the ranch this week and fill feeders.

I am on the other side of Amistad from 90 (277/377). About 24 miles N of the Del Rio City Limits.

Anyone go across the bridge to 'Acuna ?? Feel safe??

I have a couples of friends in Acuña and is safe...
anything you need im from mexico, falcon lake area...

We've had spotty showers in the area for the last two days. Tuesday afternoon should be our last shot. 1/2" plus generally.

Update from Val Verde:

We have some good looking deer so far. Some appear to be further along with growth than others.

Nice looking deer. I believe Juno has had more rain than Del Rio.

We had good rains until the first part of July. It has really dried up since. With that being said, I got rained on the last 2 times I checked cameras. The showers were real spotty. Some areas had standing water and some didn't even get a drop. Here is photo off my front porch from mid July. That area on the right got dumped on, the stuff on the left never saw a cloud.

Everything is burnt up as of Tuesday morning. I don't know if we got any rain since then.

First post here, so thought I would request some help from the knowledge here. As we are aware of it's some rough country here (Pinon Ranch area) but was wondering if anybody had a consistent method that would assist in gathering water for the wildlife outside of a well or running heavy equipment (in all of the rocks). Cant afford that at this time. Looked at a guzzler system but hate the thought of taking up that much area to accumulate enough water. got 160 acres and would like some consistent water for deer, but all of the water runs down the canyon then off the property. The porous rock is difficult to hold the water in this area. Put a system in place on the cabin and have an accumulation ~1200 gallons but away from the cabin I am struggling with the best/most effective method. big questions are how much water should be accumulated and how to accumulate it. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Outback wildlife feeders makes some nice looking guzzlers on skids. They are not cheap but they look like an easy set up and pretty low maintenance.

One of my hunters set up one of those 275 gallon tanks with an automatic valve and water trough that we used to haul water to but it never seemed to work right and we wound up de-commissioning it.
The 275 gallon tanks are pretty cheap. If you set them up right with a good automatic shut off valve and trough it may be your best option. You will need 2. One to haul water, one to leave there permanently, connected to a trough. I would imagine you can locate a good source to haul water from somewhere relatively close by. (neighboring ranch?)

Anybody on here know anything about how rainfall affects acorn crops? We have a ton of those little oaks on our place, and I have noticed a ton of acorns under some of them over the last few years.

In regard to rainfall, what months are most important to acorn production?

We have had a relatively good year and since everything dried up over the last month, I'm already wondering what the acorn crop will look like. If it stays dry, will it be poor?

If it greens up again between now and October, what could we expect?

I would think August-September rains probably play a big factor, but I'm guessing.

Hopefully we get some rain out of the hurricane but not looking good right now. Good luck to everyone on the coast. God Bless

How much rain did Val Verde get?

Looks like Val Verde got little to no rain from the hurricane. Pretty dry, and crunchy out there.

Southern and western part of the county is burning. Northeastern was very green from Loma Alta to Sonora.

Coming up real quick on those bucks shedding their velvet.

Ignore the date on this photo. I'm bad about forgetting to set them to correct date.

This buck had shed before the end of August.

None at all

I am so far behind this year i don't even have my cameras out yet. Thinking of mailing them to the ranch owner so he can get them out for me. For the first time in forever we have not put hay out(during the summer) and just started with corn 2 weeks ago. I have a feeling the bigger bucks will not be coming to the feeders and are going to make it hard on us to find them with all the food around.