I got my buck last year after Christmas. Might be the same way this year. Only shooter I saw all year in person. Out of 6 of us, only a spike has been taken on 1,100 acres so far. I didn't hear a single shot the last weekend I was there. I'll be heading to S. Tex this weekend. Good luck.

Txduckman, I think December may be better hunting this year with all the moisture hopefully taking care of the acorns it will get the deer moving late season

Is the rut over? I'm in Sunset

Usually goes to mid Dec and then bucks will start hanging together by Christmas it seems.

I'm sure there's plenty of doe's that haven't come into heat judging by the young fawns I've seen with momma still. I'd say the next couple weeks it will be off and on

Hunted this morning, Wednesday, saw 5 does and a 120" or so 8 pt. he didn't seem interested in the does at first but chased them a little then walked off. Still getting some good bucks on camera at night. Just gotta keep going and be there at the right time! Perseverance!!!!!!

No posts here in 11 days so things must be slow. I went up yesterday and pulled cards from 6 cams. A couple of good bucks seen but everything pretty spotty. Still quite a few acorns and they aren't doing much to corn. Hogs are coming every night to clean up corn.

I'm going today but looks like rain for the morning.

I'm not all that enthusiastic.

I saw a lot of doe this weekend. Only 2 bucks and one was a nubbin, other a 6 pt. No bucks on camera at several feeders. The deer hardly ate corn. One of our guys finally took a good buck last weekend, 17 inch inside spread. Our neighbor got our 11 pt that was broken to an 8 last night. Hocks were dripping but so no sign so rut just ended I assume. I am glad to see all the doe so we probably should start shooting a few.

Went this evening, Sunday , saw 8 does and my boy saw a 4 pt and that was it. Really windy so I was surprised we saw as much as we did.. They all showed right at dark. Still getting lots of bucks on film but no shooters. Got a lot of pics of bucks between 9 and 2 o'clock on the days it was raining. Thought that was interesting.

I went to check a cam yesterday at 1pm and there were deer there eating. The deer I saw today from blind were from 3:45 to 5 and nothing after that. It's a crap shoot.

Hoping to get out there this weekend. If not then I will next.

When does the second rut kick off?

I actually saw a deer last weekend. I was walking back to the house in the evening. It was a big buck that didn't hang around. I also heard 3 shots on Sunday afternoon late in the afternoon. Things have been tough around me. No movement and deer only at night on cams. Still lots of acorns and wild rye.

I'll be heading to the ranch today for the next three days, wishing the weather would be colder but I don't think that's gonna happen for awhile with this up and down weather we've been getting

Been hunting northern Montague county quite a bit lately. Seeing some small bucks and a lot of does. We have 4 food plots planted in oats, beet, turnips and wheat, the deer are hitting them pretty hard right now. My feeders are in the food plots and the deer hit the food plots and eventually the feeders then back to the food plots. The food plots keep,them hanging around for a long time. I also believe the oats, which I fertilized heavily is keeping them out of the neighbors wheat field. All my game cams are showing basically the same deer we've been seeing the last few months. Going in the morning and hoping a new one cruises by.

If we don't see any bigger bucks than we have I think the drought was hard on them but I have pics of plenty of nice bucks that didn't get shot last year so don't know where they are. We had the only water around for a while but maybe they scattered now since everyone has cover and water. We have tons of young deer. One guy got an old 8 pt two weeks ago. 17 inch spread. We only shoot 2 to 3 bucks off our 1,000 acres and have a lot of doe that never get shot. Neighbors shoot 1 to 2 bucks. Some doe look very very old though but with rain I didn't want to drag them 1/4 mile through mud. I saw 16 deer in the wind last Sunday and only one ate corn!

We had a nice 11 pt running around and neighbor pulled up with an 8 last week. It was him all broken up. 4 to 5 year old. He broke that stuff off in Oct as you could hardly tell it was him. I'll be out there several more times so good luck everyone.

We're seeing no bucks until the last minutes of day light. So far, haven't fired a shot.

I shot two doe's Friday morning, about two minutes apart. Didn't see any bucks at all. Still seeing a lot of doe's with fawns still attached so I'm not really sure what's going on anymore. Duck hunted Saturday morning and had awesome numbers of ducks coming in for hours. That's about it, I'm done for the year.

Hunted 3 days, saw nothing, and heard 1 shot fired.

I saw plenty of deer this weekend actually hitting a feeder but all bucks were young. I got 2 oinkers at least. So we took one 17 inch spread buck and one spike for 6 hunters. No shooters seen. Hopefully we get some doe in the next two weeks but I filled my freezer down south.

Appears the wet weather just kept the deer from eating corn and showing their faces. Before this weekend I watched deer after deer avoid the feeder and keep walking.

Buddy of mine is on a large high dollar lease just north of us and they had a horrible season. Spent a lot of dough for not much to show... When you stick to blinds looking at a feeder you can't have much success in these wet years it seems.

For sure. My problem was the lease I am on has no cover for anything other than travel to and from the feeders, no deer stay on the place. So, when wet weather comes and deer aren't hitting feeders, I have no where to go find deer because they aren't there, at least on my lease. I wish I could have gotten out and went looking for them, in woods or other travel routes, just don't have any.

Youth season opens tomorrow. Time to start sharing some information. Last year we had a slow season and the deer look great going into the opening weekend. Last weekend, I did see several acorns on the ground. Good luck to all the kids this weekend!

Acorns are definitely coming down in my area. Out there last weekend and not much activity at the feeders. I had two bucks come in to the area but never went to the feeder - could have been looking for does or caught movement in the blind. But definitely promising.

Good luck to the kids. Looking forward to this coming weekend.

I've not hunted bow season this year. Haven't put out the cameras. Gonna be like Christmas, I guess.

Conditions at the my place are identical to last year, which made it really tough. I haven't had hardly anything on camera this year compared to last year. Pigs have really started taking over my place, which has probably affected it the most.