We always try to get at least one mature buck a year. Brother got it done last Saturday. We have a few more to hunt and I think the does are about to get scared. We have only shot 2 deer so far this year and we need some meat for sausage etc. and have more than plenty does to take... if they cooperate.

I count this year as successful. Shot a nice 9 on opening weekend of rifle season, joined my buddy on a trip to his family property a few weeks later and shot a nice 8. Thanksgiving weekend my wife shot a doe, her first kill since she was 8 years old. We killed roughly 16-18 hogs (I lost count) and made a lot of sausage so I can't complain too much about this year. I didn't see a single mature buck at the house, which was a bummer. After last years group that I watched all year, I just knew this year would be epic. But the flooding must have forced them to relocate, all I saw were 2.5 year old bucks. Several were legal, but I was after a mature buck and let the youngsters walk. Hope they made it past the other landowners scattered up and down the creek

Season was pretty good for my grandson and I, each of us got 2 bucks and I added 2 turkey, we saw more deer and turkey this year on our lease than we have seen in the last couple of years in Sutton county (Sonora).

Another great season for us!

its not over for me until Sunday night so we will see.....

My wife and I both got very nice 10 pointers. We had a great season. Now we are starting to get ready for next year.

Still have until Sunday but got my 2nd 3 deer season. My first doe and buck with my bow buck was 10 point and my first buck with my muzzleloader in Missouri it was also a 10 point

I will have to say that I will not forget 2015 breaking 3 personal best. Started in February tearing up Stripers and Blues taking the best striper I have ever taken at 15 lbs and the biggest Blue at 62 lbs. Tons of eater fish along the way until the floods hit. Spring turkey was great calling in a lot of nice toms for friends and also taking a good one myself. Our dove and duck season has been the pits, but for deer we have had a great year with several good bucks killed. I hit another personal best with a 164" 11pt. We see tons of deer and passed many nice bucks. After passing many bucks this was the first buck I have taken in 10 years. Always take does for meat same this year. Got rid of 4 pigs along the way. We did not see as many pigs this year which is a good thing, but they do make good target practice. We will wrap up deer this weekend, finish our duck season, and start fishing for trophy blues in February along with a pheasant shoot.

There's a reason we call it hunting not killing. I did a lot of hunting this year. Hunted all but two weekends since bow opener. All but one weekend I was bowhunting. I took one doe during bow season. Saw a lot lower number of does on our lease this year. Saw what would have been my personal best buck at 18 yards this year but me and the lease manager disagreed about this deers age so he got the pass. First season in along time that the freezer is empty. Maybe one of the few elusive red deer will show up this weekend if I make it out for one last try.

Sucked

Drought from 2010 and 2011 finally caught up. Hasn't been a bad year had lots of fun hunting, still got this weekend and it will be wrap

Between son and myself we have 4 does in the freezer. Not a single buck was killed behind the house or in the panhandle. Saw a few good deer but just nothing we wanted. Daughter and SIL both got good bucks on their lease in Clay Cty.

Our best in last 8 years. We took a 196, 194, 189, 172, and 160 so far. End season this Sunday

It was slow in Montague county. Only one buck for 6 hunters (only 5 deer hunt) this year on our place. They were not hitting feeders at all. I took a doe last weekend finally and a weird spike was taken opening weekend. I saw lots of deer and some very mature doe but bucks were young. Buddy up the road in same county at a very high dollar place ($4K+ each) had a bad year on the bucks.

Down S. Tex we had a great year. Saw lots of big deer and I took a couple spikes and doe so freezer is very full.

2015 was awesome, whitetail season was no different.
We shot 6 whitetail, 5 were bucks; two are shoulder mounts and three are Euros, and one doe.
It is usually 5 does and 1 buck, but it was a year that finally flipped in our favor.
Off season was good too with three black buck, four axis, and 67 pigs.

Small acreage fence hunters continue to snipe deer. They have old coastal pastures with feeders immediately on my fence and multiple hunters, an endless supply of willing family & friends, killing any legal deer.

On Monday after close found this 2 1/2 year old 9 pt in wildlife slew (flooded old gravel pit). This 12" (illegal) deer had probably been gut shot on Christmas weekend.



Found this heavy 8 pt, also a 2 1/2 year old, 15 yards inside my fence at a point that a feeder is only 15 yards from my fence. Would have been killed on final evening.



Getting estimates now for high fencing my entire west side and will go from there. They can hunt the deer that inhabit their own abandoned coastal field.

I also had this problem...until they finally killed so many they didn't see any deer and some moved on to greener pastures. I also thought of high fencing their side...was told the it would not stop the deer from traveling around the fence to their property..I dont know what would happen but I think it will help a lot to fence off that side.

Well, my season was the worst in remembrance.

Early last spring, the lease just south of my property (I hunt on 89 acres where I live) was clear cut. I mean barren, not a twig was left standing. I had hope that a mild wet summer would really encourage a bumper crop of weeds and brush to help make some cover. It didn't. My place is about 70/30 woods/pasture. I had hopes that the deer that stayed on the lease to my south would began to utilize my woods even more. Well, evidently the warm weather and bumper mast crop kept the deer from coming out in the day light.

I sat morning and evening for three days of opening week before I even saw a deer. It was a lone buck, small and not legal, on the far side of the field. He came out right at dark. I saw a spike the next day, which embarrassingly, I missed.

Friday the 13th, I saw a lone young doe come out about 11 in the morning. I watched her in anticipation of a buck being nearby. Well she grazed contently until she began to wonder out of sight. Having seen two deer in two weeks hunting everyday, I chose to shoot her. I did, she fell and two other does ran onto the field, I shot one of those too.

I continued to hunt everyday, not seeing anything. It almost became comical, with my wife saying "What was nothing doing today?" as I came home from each hunt.

My son Cash was born on the 24th so I took a week off from hunting to help Heather out.

Since I was off from work on maternity leave, I hunted hard starting the second week of December. Still seeing nothing, I mean nothing. If I saw a squirrel, I considered it a success. I put in many hours, morning and evening.

Well I didn't see another deer until the 28th of December, five does in the far end of the pasture. Those were the last deer I would see this season.

I hope, if I'm still here next year, to get a feeder up early and try to get a deer in archery season. It seemed slow through out East Texas. Warm weather and plenty to eat will keep the deer from moving around too much for sure.

Great season. Got on a new lease and sure nuff like it. Took a 11 point that I'm getting a shoulder mount and got a nice doe. Saw a lottttttt of deer. Made some new friends and look forward to next season. Good hunting.

Congratulations to both you and your wife on the birth of your new hunting partner!

I finished up my whitetail season Monday morning. Sunday was one of the most perfect hunting weather days I have ever experienced in South Texas. I wound up hunting from a tripod over a 200 acre coastal pasture and 10 acre foot plot. I was pretty satisfied just watching deer and guiding some good friends of mine on a cull and some does, but on that last beautiful evening a true giant made his way to the coastal field. He was 700-800 yards away, so I attempted a very long stalk. Amazingly I was able to close to within 150 yards at last shooting light. I quickly confirmed that he was as big as I thought he was and moved to the prone position for a shot...only to watch my shot hit a mound of sand just past him and erupt in a cloud of dust and see the buck run away seemingly untouched. I knew I'd rushed the shot and missed low. It was very calm and the dust cloud lingered long enough for me to clearly mark the spot where he was standing. After picking up my buddies and celebrating another buck kill (a career best for my good buddy from Atlanta), we searched long and hard to ensure there was no hit. The next morning we searched again and found no blood or other sign. However, I did spot a group of buzzards about half a mile away in a dry creek bed. As we got closer I could see that they were on a carcass. For a moment I thought maybe I hit him after all, but quickly discovered it was an 8 pointer I had never seen. It looked like a fresh kill and a buck that might have been targeted as a cull, so I called a few neighbors and quickly found the rightful shooter. Glad I could at least make someone's day.

I'll reply with a pick of my buddy's management 8 pointer and a pick of the 8 we found dead.

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You have to think Positive Sir...

You got a good Oil Change on one Hunt


Did that fix hold up okay

Button buck and small 8 point with my bow in November.
2 axis doe and a fox in August; stalked and one with 30-30 open sight.
Teal in early season.
Texas Ibex and rabbit in May.

Got a mule doe/aoudad hunt at Palo Duro Canyon SP this weekend. So hopefully a mule doe and 1+aoudad.
Conservation season geese in Spring Break 2016.
Exotics in April/March 2016.

Nice 8 point, decent doe, and 2 pigs. Freezer is full

Doe with the bow and 18" cull 8 point on the new lease.