Sssshhhh.. ain’t no deer in the panhandle.

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I'm also in Hall and have seen it like this a couple other times. Off the top of my head, I don't recall any significant changes in deer habits, except maybe a slight reduction in activity at feeders during the early part of the season. Heck, feeder activity is pretty sparse right now anyway.

I'm also hoping the thick vegetation might help a few fawns get through early life that might otherwise fall prey to opportunistic critters.

Haven't seen much for antlers (not many resident bucks on my place), but the does I've seen look very healthy. And as the old saying goes, "big rain, big antlers", so I'm hoping for better antler quality this year too. Good luck.

Our place in shamrock has been horrible the last 3 yrs… Dry and the coyote population has taken its toll, last year they were way out of control but a helo hunt took a lot out. The last time we had close to this much rain I had a 140 grow to a 173. Hoping we have similar outcome this year but we lost a lot of deer to the long drought we had. We need 3 yrs of this rain to get back to what we had.

Unfortunately we saw the same and lost maybe 30% of our herd. We usually have 1-3 150’s but in the last three years we’ve had 1. God willing the ranch will turn around with the much needed rain.

I'm in Dickens county. Last year was a total mess!!! No rain all last year until end of August then 5" and another 5" first week of September. Place went from a from a desert to a jungle.
No fawns sited all hunting season and almost no deer came to feeders. I saw only one shooter out of range!

The 10 inches in late summer 2022 kept forage through March 2023 when the the rains started. We have received regular rain fall all spring till now and we are 20% above the 10 year average at 17".
I'm at my place now mowing and resetting blinds blown over due tp recent storms and tornados in the area..

I'm very optimistic as the place is greener than ever!!!! I'm hearing many quail .calling all over my place. I'm sure with low fawn survival last year we will be down in numbers how ever with the extremely thick cover and excellent forage we should have a banner year in fawn survival.
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My wife could not believe how green it was when we were up there in June. This is our first year on this property (also near Shamrock). I have tons of healthy does and and a handful of fawns that are frequenting the feeders, which is good, but only one or two small 90"-110" bucks passing through. I know the area grows big'uns so we will see.

Heading to the lease at the end of the month to fill feeders and set up cameras. Anyone seen any good growth on their bucks from last year?

That’s great! We dried up on rain a little hope we get some more!