My six year old grandson and I are headed to my place for his first sit in a blind ever this afternoon. Should be interesting. Pray for us, not for any muy grande to come out or anything, just for us not to kill each other.

Bring the kitchen sink with you! Good luck.

I found the best activity with my daughter at the age was playing "I spy" - just needed an extra pair of bino's. But good luck.

One young eight cruised by. Grandson got the heebie jeebies and kept telling me to shoot it. Blood thirsty little tike.

That's great. Getting them started young. Good luck to y'all.

I just got caught up in the moment.

Just got to the house. I had one of the prettiest 8pts I've ever seen on our place at my #6 stand. He came out right at dark. Worked his way towards my stand and ate road corn, eyeing the 6 doe across the fence. Then started running back and forth chasing them. 16" wide,19"" tall and heavy for our area. Chocolate horns. Awesome deer. I just couldn't get him over 3.5 years old though. I passed. I rode the 4 wheeler to the stand BTW.

19" tall! He behind that high fence???

Erath, I think your eyes deceive you sometimes. Do you often plate more food than you eat?

Better question for me is what days am I not in the stand. Have only missed one day since rifle season started. I will probably miss this coming Friday or Saturday.

Nope. Just a stellar buck do to our outstanding game management.

Yes, of course. Doesn't everyone?....Guys, that buck is 30" wide. That's gotta' be worth some extra points

I'm ready to see the mature 10pt we have on camera

Beautiful morning but slooooww as molasses. Haven't seen a single deer. The moon has jacked with their circadian rhythm.

Beautiful morning but slooooww as molasses. Haven't seen a single deer. The moon has jacked with their circadian rhythm.

I would have thought the evenings would be better, but yesterday it was slow as well.

Moon is getting pretty full so they will probably be moving late morning - mid day.

Yep. I agree. We're headed out of town tomorrow. Sure would be nice to shoot a bigurn before we leave.

Alright fellers, y'all do me proud. Things to do today before we leave. Back at it this evening. No deer were harmed in the writing of this thread.

My deer app shows the next 3 days to be prime with the activity supposedly from 11:00 - 2:00 PM each day. Surprisingly the app has been pretty good about predicting optimal feed times (based on lunar activity), albeit it doesn't take in to account he rut. I'm going to put it to the test tomorrow through Sunday.

Maybe go to each feeder, manually trigger and give it 30 minutes. Then move to next feeder and so on at lunchtime.

Son-in-law sat with us this morning. Decent mature hill country 8 decided to go harass a smaller buck and left the feeder and started heading toward the alfalfa bale I'd put out to the left. I asked if he was sure he didn't want to use my rifle and shoot him. He said okay and pole axed him at about 60 yards. 'First deer he's killed in 30+ years. A good morning.

Congrats to him creekrunner

Congratulations to him. I'm headed your direction tomorrow. Hope to get me a hill country deer too.