I wish more east texas hunters would except the fact that deer season in east texas needs to open earlier, and then get loud about it.It seems to me that everybody would want to start hunting earlier. The game cams. prove it year in and year out, the more mature bucks are more active in daylight in late oct.

Deer season is open usually Oct. 1st? I don't see the problem?

I started deer hunting with a bow. For years I only shot a hog.

I put the bow down for years, due to my tournament fishing season going into October. I plan on buying a new bow and getting back into it.

I have a couple new spots I want to try my hand with the bow on.

My main deal is the deer around Jefferson being so small and over crowded. I shot a 6.5 year old doe this year that I thought was a very young deer. Smaller than a button buck I shot (in another county). Every year the biologist says our deer are hurting and need thinning out. Well our doe season is only 3 weekends. It's hard to get your two does tagged out. I think as of second weekend our lease only had 2 does taken. No one was seeing anything. Believe me...they need the meat! (Blue collar hunting club). I told the biologist the season for does needs to be longer. It's defeating the purpose only having 3 weekends. (Most of us can't just take off a week to hunt)

The season starts the last weekend in September....that is early enough

It would be easier to kill them if it ran late. They seem to get dumber when they're rutted down, cold & starving.

I'm hunting in Angelina County just 8 miles or so south of Lufkin. I haven't seen a deer in person or on the camera since the opener of bow season. The folks who live on the place say they've seen a few but not at the feeder. It's like suddenly the grass is blue and the sky is green...what I thought I knew to be fact and true isn't turning out to be. ???

Upshur county was slow over thanksgiving

I'm all for rifle season opening up earlier. Bow hunters won't be affected anymore than they are the rest of the year. It seems to be working just fine for the MLD leases around us. Every year some kid shoots a monster on youth weekend. Then, in the past few years, general rifle opening weekend mature bucks are beeded down. South Texas was granted an additional 2 weeks to accomodate their later rut. Why can East Texas not be given a week to accomodate our earlier rut?

I remember when gas was 20 cents a gallon, and deer season was 2 weeks long,and illegal to shoot spikes, and you had to put your name and address on your arrow, all things change. I get tried of people complaning about A.R's. when it's the best thing that's happened for the deer heard in east texas,now the best thing for the east texas hunters is moving opening week-end to oct.

I think East Texas deer season needs to go later.....when it finally gets cold and stays cold. haha.

...and the acorns are gone or rotted out.

now we're getting somewhere!

pure genius

Acorns don't rot and it never gets cold and stays cold in east texas any more

Yea whatever. Thanks for raining on our parade.

There's one in every crowd.

I don't know where all the deer in Nacogdoches county came from that are being seen, but I have two leases in southern Nacogdoches county and saw my first deer last Saturday since the beginning of bow season.

Do any of you ever do any research about what your talking about are do you just agreeing with yourself. If acorns rotted where would all the young oaks come from? How ever the longer they stay on the ground they lose protein value,look it up. When was it below freezing for more than 5 days in east texas,look it up. And as for as one in ever crowd, you're right I'll be in the crowd that's sitting in the deer stand with my riffle in oct.Because it's comming,look it up.

wow.....apparently we were taken seriously.

Has been a weird year..I'm seeing deer, just not the normal handful of bucks every morning like usual.

Deer in Robertson county are huntin corn. Thursday night a six point was caught in a hog trap before 7:00pm. Turned him loose and closed the trap. Next morning he was saw him again 50 yards from the trap. Saturday morning Had an 8 point stuck in a different trap a mile away and turned him loose he must have got caught that night. They had to belly crawl to get in there. They are eating up the corn by the feeders. They start to move 10:30 am to 2:00 pm. Haven't seen any before 9:00 am. Then again at dark.

If acorns didn't rot, the hardwood market would be in good shape. They'll rot bc of freeze or water saturation... They need to get under debris or in the ground to be insulated away from water & temps to grow into trees.

lol

our feeders are gettin cleaned up pretty good as well