East of Bowie seems to be going strong have got does spike
Past on nice 10pt. And nice 9pt both meeting the 13 rule
Past both of them not cause waiting on bigger but holding
Them out for my wife and my boy

They been running does hard too last week to

I'm changing strategies. Nothing but small racks and yearling doe coming to feeders. 2 weeks ago there were deer everywhere but now they have figured out that it is hunting season. Nothing even on game cams at night except pigs and coons.

4 days in a row with out seeing a single deer, coyote, hog, rabbit, coon, ANYTHING!!!! I dont know what the deal is.

My buddy saw more deer this weekend than ever before, 9 at his feeder/foodplot at one time. 1/2 mile away zilch. Movement definately slowing due to pressure.

Lots of green stuff out there to eat.

Hunting is super slow.... I got a yote last week and watched deer move well out of range of the feeders. Had a doe walk up to it and run off. Guess they are scared of corn. The turkey are sure plentiful. I need to through some rocks at them corn robbers.

day 5....

move off the feeder?

Ive got stands in oak trees, the edge of the wheat field, travel routes between feeding and bedding..... tried them all. They just arent moving in the daylight and very little at night. Ive moved the cameras around, not many pictures. Its crazy Ive gone from 400+ pictures a week to 6 last week. From seeing 10-15 deer every time out to this, none in 5 days and very few last week. I know there is acorns and green growth everywhere but dang they have to move sometime

I remember seeing a study done about food plots. The conclusion was that deer stage in the afternoon on the trails to the wheat patch and come out to them at night. The conclusion was to hunt the trails from and to the fields.

Since I'm seeing only small bucks and yearling does at feeders and my oat patches, I'm going to move my hunting away from the areas that the deer are avoiding. The cameras tell me that mature deer are ignoring the corn, even at night.

Bottom line is that the larger deer, IMO, are avoiding the areas that they know are dangerous.

Brad, I guess that means move off the feeders.

Activity on our place has slowed down alot. Not much coming to feeders at all! Hopfully things pick up soon!

I agree activity has slowed, But I hunted Tuesday am. thru today am. and i'm still seeing some chasing!!! No BS.... Tuesday Morn. I watched a HOT doe run across a field, then a small buck come out 30 seconds behind her nose down right on her path. Then on the side of the field where they ran to another small buck. The two small bucks started sparing. Then on the same trail a wide 6 (seen this deer 4 times now) comes out nose down runs to the same place as doe and small bucks.

Last night group of 5 does, and a doe with her button buck.

Check camera after that evening hunt(camera is on a scrape) and the biggest buck this year!!!! Wish I knew how to post pic. A huge 8 maybe 20" wide g2s 14" tall 225# ? Neck huge!!! but at 12:37am. Typical.

This am. saw multiple does 3 together. couple solo running like they were chased, but no bucks behind them. Saw one buck way off that was on the move, and a six point running across field when I got down at 10:00.

what part of the country you hunt glassangler?

Flood plan in between Saint Jo and Nocona

Yes I know exactly the spot.

The rut is either still on or has started again. Yesterday morning a doe came by. About a minute later a huge bodied, old, 8 point followed her. I shot it. Then another nice 8 came after her. A 13 year old kid with me shot it. We went and found the deer and closed up the stand. Made a lot of noise. I looked up and another smaller 8 came and looked us over. Then it came within about 50 ft of us and headed after the doe.

Later the kid rattled up another 8 that came withing 10 feet of him.

Neither the shots or banging around the blind bothered them when the doe was on their mind.

Yes still some young does coming into heat. I watched a young doe run across field Sunday morn. panting ears pend back. Kept waiting for the buck finally 20 mins. later here he came a decent 8 point, nose down zig zagin back and forth right down the same spot she ran. He ran right by the blind grunted at him he just kept runnin.

dang it! Y'all start talking rut activity back on and i'm stuck in west Texas working until Friday.

I'm in Houston......but I'm gonnatry again this weekend!

just rolled back in to town for 7 days. Hope some of the rutting sign mentioned above is happening at my place this week.

Try some rattling.

I havent been to our place since Nov 26th, but planning on going this saturday. I've heard that deer are only hitting feeders at night in our area. What's everyone else seeing? Rut pretty much done?

Same story. But no one is hunting mid-day so I bet people would see some movement if they would get out of the blind/feeder setup and hunt on the ground in different areas.

Ive hunted mid-day, all day, on travel paths between food and bedding areas, rattled, grunted, mock scrapes, scent drags, pretty much covered it. The deer had really slowed down on any kind of activity. They seem to be moving a little more now but the last several weeks have been tough. I havent seen any sign of rut activity in the last few days.

Hunted Saturday morn. saw lots of deer (30). Doe are all grouped up. The movement didnt start untill about 8:00. One wide 6 that I see every time I hunt was still try to get a doe or two but I think that there are very few still hot. Still getting pictures of bucks coming to my scrape, all at night but all good mature deer. My buddy hunts about 2 miles (as a crow flies) west of me and we have pictures of the same buck multiple times this year. It takes him about 3-4 days to travel between places. Most recent pictures of him were on 12/1 at his place and 12/4 back at mine. So he is still exploring a little.