Im North of town seen several bucks chasing and activity all weekend. My kid killed 3 turkeys and a good hog. Good weekend for us.

North of Jermyn report..Got in the stand at 2pm and started seeing deer at 2:30.My best guess is the rut is a few days away.A doe came into the field and a few seconds later a decent 8 followed her out,he didn't stay with her but a couple minutes and left.An hour or so later a couple does showed up and the 8 again came to check them and left shortly after followed by a 6 and 4 that wanted to check them as well..From the moment I got in the stand and until dark there were deer coming and going..Total I saw 7 different does,6bucks,17pigs and 2 fat coons.Well there was 17 pigs and now there is only 16.One big sow took at 270 in the ear.Will be back in stand Thursday at 2pm.

Headed out tomorrow afternoon will get an update asap.

Hunting At Barton Chapel, last 2 days have seen 2 good buck with does, think it's starting.

I'll be out there again Tomorrow evening thru Sunday morning. These 2 8 pointers are on my "list" for Jack County (especially the wide one, but I do like tall racks too)...







Problem is I have this one on my cameras in Young County - it seems when I hunt Jack, the big 8 in Young shows up and if I go after the one in Young then the Jack boys come out...I swear they are toying with me...But if they keep showing up during shooting ours their timing is going to be right (for me) eventually.. I love the neck on ths Young County bad boy...and he's got some mass on those mainbeams too. I uh, wish I hadn't been hunting in Jack County opening morning!!






Earl

Here's another of that big 8 in Young...the one he's standing by isn't a slouch either...but he dwarfs him.



Earl

Earl where do you hunt?

Spencer...in Jack I'm a few miles South of Bryson off of 1190 very near the wind generators (can see them from my blind in the next section accross 1190).

In Young, I'm a few miles north of Loving off Hwy 16 before you get to Markley. I've hunted Young for 5 years now. This is only the second year at Bryson, we did not shoot anything there last year (hell last year I didn't shoot anything in Young either which was a first for that place, they just didn't come to the corn last year on account of all the acorns) - far different story this year.

Earl

Nice bucks!!! Good luck on your hunt!!!

Im north of Bryson on the young county line. We are over ran with hogs this year. First time in a few years

I have lots of hogs on the place in Young. But the neighbors must have started hunting them as they pretty much went nocturnal at the start of the season. I'll get a few when they get lazy during the daylight as allways.

The place in Jack, we've never seen a hog. Either the nieghbors are trapping them or the fire that went thru the area a few years ago ran them somewhere else and they haven't come back. That place was burned bad but the deer don't seem to have minded.

Earl

Spencer you've got to be pretty close to me..We've had our place for 5 years now and I've never seen this many pigs.No Bucks worth shooting but I am seeing alot more doe than in years past.

I have some awesome bucks on camera have seen then yet and we hardly have any does on camera and I have not seen nay does. We shot one hog this past weekend.

Nothing really to update..Sat from 2pm until 5 and saw 2 doe..Would have set til dark but the guy to the north shot and he had to be hunting the fence line cause it was so loud I almost crapped myself.

Also on jack/young county line between bryson/jermyn. Bucks seem bachelored up. Seeing them on camera around 8pm and occasionally through night. Does and spikes hitting feeders during shooting light. Not seeing any rut sign. Heading out for a long weekend this week. Will report back

Opening weekend at our lease off 148 north of Jacksboro, we saw a lot of deer. Does and young bucks were seperated. Saw 4 bucks fighting. 2 were sparring but 2 were flat out fighting. Both 2 year old 8 points. My dad shot a mature 7 point chasing a doe with a swollen neck. Saw several large groups of does however with no bucks following at all. Son hunted Tues and wed with very few deer seen and no good bucks..

Any updates from this weekend?

I was as usual in the wrong place at the wrong time. I chose to hunt Young County as the rut is going off there at my place above Loving. Each time on stand I was seeing 10-15 deer with about half of those being bucks. I did see one legal shooter yesterday morning but he left before I could make my mind up if I wanted him or not. Two nights I saw a mature 7 point that is unfortunately not AR legal (high but narrow rack). The bucks are scraping there and chasing the does who are not yet receptive (they would rather eat but the bucks won't let them). Even a 1 year old spike was trying to get frisky but the other bucks shut him down..sad little thing...

I had decided to hunt Young because I had seen more activity on the cameras and it was true - certainly saw lots of deer. At Jack near Bryson I would typically only see one deer per hunt (usually a young buck). Of course yesterday morning I was at my stand in Young County when he was there at Bryson laughing at my absent butt...

Still, I dont' second guess my decision - I knew the rut was going off (or about to) at Young but hadn't really seen a sign of it at the place in Jack yet - (hard to when you only see one buck and no does at a time).

rattled this 9 point up at about 150 yards saturday morning about 9:00 he ran about 10 yards in the woods and crashed. It was actually pretty intense he was already standing at the edge of the clearing as i was still rattling and grunting. This is my biggest buck so far with the width right at 17 inches wide

Very nice buck! Earl

Good to know they might be coming to horns. Fired up about this weekend. Except for the weather. Looks rainy.

Wait a minute. Cloud cover is great for rattling. Fired up once again!!!!

281 N of 2190. Saturday morning full moon early and at 0830ish wind blowing like crazy. Saw 8pt moving to fast to check AR's, then had 3 doe stop at feeder. A few seconds later the old 8pt with 17.5 in spread showed up.......He's at the processors.

BTW - Game Warden showed up too! No big deal Very polite & professional.

Got pics, but I can't figure out if it's my computer or photobucket....can get them to load to photobucket but I'm working on it.

Congrats. Would like to see pics if you can get things workin.

If the rut is happening north of Jermyn it must be one of those were bucks don't chase does.lol. Saw 6 does this afternoon and no bucks..