I can echo what most have said here. Not seeing very many deer. Some nocturnal camera activity. Not coming to feeders. In fact, I sat one evening and watched 4 doe graze the foot plot just adjacent to the feeder. They were too young to harvest. Lots of good activity on camera late summer into fall. Thought it was going to be a good season.

3 of our 5 hunters have gotten a deer this year. Two decent 8 points and a doe. We are all thinking the same thing others have said here. Warm winter, abundant browse not getting frozen, etc.

This is in Taylor county south of Abilene. MLD 3 so still have some opportunities left.

-Oklahoma- My first time to hunt Oklahoma and this place is big with big bucks and extremely lightly hunted but the acorn crop was one for the ages and with acorn trees everywhere it made it tough.
-NW Texas- Ive ran this large lease for many years and by most hunters standards its very good year in and year out. This year was probably our best year ever. Of course those mesquite trees don't drop acorns. We had good rain when we needed it(last fall winter spring) and then it slowed so the deer got hungry and really came to corn and food plots all year. We would see more deer than most years and more bucks than most years. About a third of our guys bow hunt but we have never killed a Trophy buck during Oct. This year we killed 4 in Oct ranging from mid 160s to mid 130s.. Total for the year we killed 8 big enough to qualify for TBGA. Its interesting cause even though we knew we had good horn growth we all thought the number of older age bucks would still be down from low fawn crops of the drought years a ways back. I guess the older deer we had just got hungry, as well as we have gotten a lot better at killing the ones we have. The years after the drought years we had good to great fawn crops so we have tons of deer that are 4 yo and younger so it was a battle holding off on some real good 4s. Our only downside is we probably have TOO MANY deer and we have not been killing enough. We will see how that turns out going forward.
From reading others comments and talking to a lot of hunters as well as my own experiences I would summarize by saying that it you had a lot of acorns you probably had very slow deer movement but otherwise in most other areas of the State it was better than average.

Gave up the place I was on so did not hunt there, was offered to hunt with another friend but they have to many people already on a small place so for the first time in forever I did not hunt.
And as much as love hunting it did not bother me very much, I guess because I still have plenty of meat in the freezer.

Next year

We had several deer go down so only 3 trophies on the list for 7 hunters. We took all 3 and the smallest was a 161” 8 point.

This is mexico