Well my father has recently purchased some land in limestone county. I lost my lease and he has invited me to hunt with him on his little ranch. The little 90 acre ranch is covered in a oaks and ceder. To my surprise there is probably more ceder than oak. But he only had time to hunt one time last year. My question is how is the hunting in that area? I've tried to do some of my own research and I'm not so interested in the quality of the deer as much as the quantity. Also does anyone know what time of year the rut usually kicks off or when they start chasing. I previously hunted Edna area down by Victoria, and 2nd or 3rd week of bow season you usually started seeing them chase a little. However a few years back I hunted Rockdale area in Milam county and they weren't really chasing until the 2nd week of rifle season. Any help or any info would be greatly appreciated. From my research the average size of a deer is smaller than 100lbs a does and probably in the 120lbs for bucks. A 130 class buck is probably considered a trophy. All of this I am fine with, but I'm trying to find some general info as to when's a good time to take vacation. Thank you for your help.

In Limestone you have some best hunting in Texas do to the low hunting pressure or very slim hunting do to low numbers of deer. Hogs you have for sure. Deer weight: does 80-110 bucks 100-140. For bow hunting try the last week of October or 3rd week of November.

I live in southern Limestone county and hunt in Leon county 15 miles from home, moved here from Brazoria county in 2005. Typically the bucks are all chasing by mid October, I've seen bucks chasing some late does into the first couple of weeks of rifle season but not like mid October I've seen mid 140 class bucks taken in both Leon and Limestone counties especially in the Navasota river bottom 95-100# for mature doe about 135-140# for mature bucks. these weight are on the hoof weight, our management program requires recording weight before and after field dressing.

Where in limestone county are you? I just got on a place north of mexia.

I'm in southwestern Limestone County and hunt on our small place. Plenty of deer and hogs. Coyote numbers seem to be down in the last year, which seems odd. Deer size is about as stated above, which is that they are bigger than Hill Country deer, but much smaller than what I used to hunt in eastern Louisiana. Also as stated, not too much hunting pressure. The racks on the bigger bucks aren't much to shout about, so if I was hunting for a wall hanger, I'd go back to family land in Louisiana. I have been watching a 10 pointer and waiting for him to mature. He's very young and the rack isn't heavy, though it is well shaped.

Well our place is located 15 miles south east of mexia off of hwy 39. We've only had feeders up for a couple of weeks. After making a trip this weekend to get more of my stuff set up, we checked cameras and only had does so far. It was more encouraging then what I originally anticipated. Have any of you that hunted in that area attempted to plant and plots?

All these are from Limestone County near Kosse. The dead one scored around 125 but he field dressed 175! (After gutting). We bowhunt only sO we havebt killed many. Our first year we saw 0 bucks on cameras or in person. 4 years in and we had 9 legal bucks last year on camera. Watch out for poachers.

Wow pretty impressive deer. I hope it's not that long before we see any bucks, but it looks like y'all have turned things around since the first year. I've heard that poaching is pretty bad in the area. Hopefully we can keep them down.

I started feeding corn about a month ago. I have seen plenty of deer this is the biggest so far this year.

You guys are feeding steroids to your bucks. Mine don't look like that (darn it). I'd truly be shocked to have a deer weigh out at 175, dressed or full body. Back in eastern Louisiana, a mature buck's body weight would average about 225 or so. Every now and then you'd get one around 250. The biggest one ever taken on the place was a pound or two shy of 300.

After we bought this place, I put up feeders and ran them year round. Wasn't till about year 2 that I started getting significant deer movement on the place. I do believe that the feeders slowly caused the deer to change their movement patterns to include my woods. And naturally, the hogs came to lunch also. And the corn brought coons, rabbits, and squirrels, and that attracted bobcats and coyotes.