Deerless season
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probably spook all the deer with my snoring Daniel Boone
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Welll - the thing I like about old posts is that I can always go back to the original post and re read what was posted.
The man said he saw deer on the neighbors property but not on his.
The next thing you needed to do was move to a different piece of land.
In Pennsylvania - a man with a truck and the willingness to knock on a couple of doors can find more places to hunt then there is days in the week to go there and hunt.
I had places that were so polluted with deer that I had to fight with my family members to get them to get out of the truck and actually do some hunting.
Sometimes the deer would be standing next to the road where I wanted to drop them off - probably listening and laughing about how lazy some hunters can be.
We are most fortunate that there is over one million acres of state game lands and another 2 million acres of land open to hunting such as national forests and private land offered to anyone that would like to hunt there and DMAP land such as on the State Forest land where you can hunt doe's any day of the week.
I guess some places are just so land locked that unless you own a piece of property - you don't have many hunting opportunities.
My next step would be for you to plant some food sources such as Whitetail clover, corn or grass seed which would attract the deer from the neighboring properties and make your property look more desirable to the deer you are trying to hunt.
The man said he saw deer on the neighbors property but not on his.
The next thing you needed to do was move to a different piece of land.
In Pennsylvania - a man with a truck and the willingness to knock on a couple of doors can find more places to hunt then there is days in the week to go there and hunt.
I had places that were so polluted with deer that I had to fight with my family members to get them to get out of the truck and actually do some hunting.
Sometimes the deer would be standing next to the road where I wanted to drop them off - probably listening and laughing about how lazy some hunters can be.
We are most fortunate that there is over one million acres of state game lands and another 2 million acres of land open to hunting such as national forests and private land offered to anyone that would like to hunt there and DMAP land such as on the State Forest land where you can hunt doe's any day of the week.
I guess some places are just so land locked that unless you own a piece of property - you don't have many hunting opportunities.
My next step would be for you to plant some food sources such as Whitetail clover, corn or grass seed which would attract the deer from the neighboring properties and make your property look more desirable to the deer you are trying to hunt.
sleepyone
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I'm in North Texas. Our entire family has been shut out for the first time in over 30 years of owning the land. We had a record acorn crop. Have seen tracks on the trails and roads but none at the feeders and no pics on trail cams after first of October when acorns started dropping.
I have spent over 40 hours in stand and several hours of walking through our woods and sitting near large oak trees with acorns and tracks around. Have only seen one doe all season. I know they are around. They have no reason to move far from their beds with acorns everywhere. We have had a few fronts and storms move through, which will usually get them moving but not this year. Same story with all my friends and others from around north and central Texas.
Our 200 acres has solid oak trees except for 25 acres of coastal fields and some semi-open areas where the oaks are just scattered.
Our place is loaded with deer and our entire family has always been able to take deer almost at will as long as we followed the usual guidelines of early morning or late afternoon, cooler temp, light or no wind, and moon phase. I rarely had to sit more than 3 hours to take a doe. Not this year!
I have spent over 40 hours in stand and several hours of walking through our woods and sitting near large oak trees with acorns and tracks around. Have only seen one doe all season. I know they are around. They have no reason to move far from their beds with acorns everywhere. We have had a few fronts and storms move through, which will usually get them moving but not this year. Same story with all my friends and others from around north and central Texas.
Our 200 acres has solid oak trees except for 25 acres of coastal fields and some semi-open areas where the oaks are just scattered.
Our place is loaded with deer and our entire family has always been able to take deer almost at will as long as we followed the usual guidelines of early morning or late afternoon, cooler temp, light or no wind, and moon phase. I rarely had to sit more than 3 hours to take a doe. Not this year!
22-rimfire
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The weather this year was pretty poor for deer hunting in late November and early December. Frankly it plain sucked for deer hunting. I believe the havest in PA and NY was down.
Erik M
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No dice in southeast KY this year. I saw more impressive deer run across the road in front of my truck than I saw in the woods. Someone has filled them in that its illegal to shoot at them from a vehicle I think, show offs. I saw an amazing 10 point hanging out with a younger spike 2 weeks before the season opened too.
22-rimfire
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Erik, are there still lots of deer up Colliers and Lewis Creek these days or have they spread out?
i went through the regular firearm season without seeing a single deer that i could shoot at. in muzzle loader season, i could have shot a button buck at about 30 yards, but i absoloutly refuse to shoot button bucks (unless we were talking a real survival situation). of course, injuring myself badly opening morning did not help matters at all. it was the end of muzzle loader season until i could walk decently. opening morning was simply a pain fest. i shold not have even wnet out. it took 45 minutes to do a 15 minute walk to my stand. and i hurt so bad i could not set still. if i had shot a deer, there would have been no way i could have gutted it. so maybe things worked out for the best.
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