Well I got invited to a small property (200 acres). The drive there was great deer in just about every field and a lot on the side of the road. Got to the lease and pulled cards and really didn't have a lot of deer on camera like I was expecting. Hunted all weekend and this morning. We didn't have any deer coming to the feeders and corn was piled up and only seen a couple small bucks all weekend passing through and not one doe. I have an opportunity to get on this lease but not seeing deer has me a little gun shy. Anyone else dealing with this in the area? We noticed on camera the area got quite a bit of rain I think around Thanksgiving and all feeder pics shut down a few days after. The property has very little hunting pressure from folks on the lease, it's only been hunted 3 times since opening weekend and not very many deer were killed. It does have county roads on two sides, is road hunting and issue in the area? Another scenario I thought of is the rain got everyones crops growing and the deer have left the feeders and started hitting all the fields. Can anyone give me some info about how the hunting has been? Property is located in Millersview.

I have a lease north west of you close Lowake. We have a good deer population. That being said, they're not hitting our feeders as heavily as in past years. We've had quite a bit of rain over the past month and a half. There's plenty of green for them to eat in the pasture and the winter wheat is in good shape.

What Hawk said. We’re about 10 miles from Millersview. The hunting has been slow this season. I think the September and early November rains greened everything up. We get lots of pics of deer and some decent bucks, but we just aren’t seeing them. We have 550 acres and we kill 1-3 bucks a year so we aren’t over hunting it by any means. The week between Christmas and New Year is our best hunting. We kill our biggest buck every year that week. Always a buck we have no pics of. We think they are out cruising for the last inbred doe during that week.

The only thing left for the deer to eat around millersview is basically the wheat. Up until end of aug the grand total rain fall was 6” from Jan-Aug. then got a bunch of rain from Sept to Now. That greened up some forbs and winter grass. As far as drought almost every tank around went dry. Yes Thanksgiving was alot of rain roughly 3.4 inches. Deer been in a strong rut since Nov 18th. They will be a second cycle here pretty quick and then Christmas should be good as any forbs that where left will be gone driving deer to wheat and higher carb corn.

I’d start putting out alot of feed if you want your deer to make it through winter. They are really poor coming out of rut.

Long story short was a very rough summer with maybe 5% fawn survival.