I don't scrape anything, and we still saw 50+ bucks this year. Scrapes might work. But we hunt morning and evening, & shoot deer every year.

Saw many, many deer. Took 3 culls and two decent bucks and 1 doe with the tag we had.

Saw lots of deer, but not many legal deer. I took one cull & my 10 year old son got his first buck. It was a nice 11 point with 17-1/2" spread. It was a great season to watch him get his first buck & a bonus that it was a trophy to enjoy!

Had a good 8 point on cam and the freaking "poachers" shot it! Found it dead in the woods with nothing taken from it!!!!

I dont know where yall hunt but on our land deeer sucked this year seen does and 2 bucks nothing legal but does ........linden Tx

One of the 8pts didn't cross close enough for the 10yo to shoot, opted to let him bust a doe. Plenty of deer moving around.

Saw nothing but young bucks this year sans one. We had one, count ONE, 3.5yr old 8 point taken. I missed the opportunity to shoot it, judging it, and it ran off before I got a good look at it. After the other fella shot it, I decided I would have passed on it if I'd have had enough time to assess it.

Another fella on the lease passed on a legal but young 8. it strolled through his area, headed for the fence-line where a neighbor has a stand just across the fence, and the neighbor shot it within a minute or two of it jumping the fence. Kind of hacked us a bit. But it's his land, he can kill what's legal if he wants.

Other than that, quite a few piggies, and a coyote or two.

Oh, I did kill a yearling 3 point the last day of season. The doctor wouldn't let me bowhunt this year, so no doe for meat. I decided to put some backstrap in the freezer. I figured with the amount of 6,7,& small 8's we had running around, the 3 point would never be missed.

I hunt in Polk county. I think it was the worst year out of the last 11 years. We had a lot of people out hunting and everyone getting skunked. The deer were moving some but went nocturnal after the 2nd week of November. There were some good bucks killed early in the season.
We had acorns every where. My understanding is tress have a large acorn crop when there is a drought. This happens so the trees that end up dying from the drought, they can be replaced.
The quality of bucks seems to be getting better with the AR change. I will have to post some pictures.

seen nothin but racoons and hogs!!!!

Hell I wish I saw hogs, didn't even see those. Only bucks where 4 pts and didn't meet AR.

I saw a nice 10pt about 30ft away during bow season that only went 12-12.5 inches!!!

could shoot him on the dark side.....

I know hunters in our area of East Texas who seldom see deer and hogs. But if you ask me, it's because we seldom see them (the hunters) throughout the off season. They show up about once or twice to check their feeders, which are always empty and not working because they seldom check on them.

To the flip side, the guys who visit their lease at least once a month to make sure their feeders never stop feeding, always seem to take both hogs and deer.

I don't see hogs on my area of lease and seldom see deer!!! I feed year round and with my schedule, 4or 5 weeks on and 4-5 weeks off, my feeder is seldom empty!!! The cover is thick and they come out about 15 - 20yds from me!!! Since the AR's I've seen less and less deer and the ones I see, I can't shoot!!!

Ah, the preferred East Texas method!!!

Perhaps you just have poor habitat. If you don't have options to change that, it might be time to find another lease.

judging from his past pictures, I would imagine the habitat will drastically change in a few yrs to being wide open

That and the wildfires that happen when things start drying up again!!!

wildfires/meth lab explosion.....

Don't forget the infamous propane tanks>>> here hold my beer....!!!

I don't (or maybe can't) hunt anymore but I did get a sizable doe going to work last week (or some one did). I jut bought a big heavy Chevy Tahoe and hit a doe that jumped out of a ditch right in front of me. Busted some of the plastic in the grill and the tabs that hold the turn signals, otherwise no damage to the truck. After work I drove slow going home trying to see the carcass. Either some one picked it up or the doe made it back into the woods, because it was not there.

That was if for my deer season.

Ours was good,,my son killed a 14 wide buck,, and we got several pigs,,some eating size (in freezer),,some very large (coyote bait),,I passed on a buck over 14 wide,,,it was good season,,gonna keep killing them pigs year round, and get some coyotes this winter.

Bucks were moving today just north of Cleveland and one of their women was waiting for them on the shoulder in front of the LaQuinta

After 28 years of deer hunting in east Texas and 17 years of hunting the same property, I have found that consistent success requires continually adapting to ever changing environmental factors and an evolution in tactics.