Where do the bucks go?

[jferg33]

Not sure but if you're in Krum you should watch out for those road hunters!!! I know one of those Hawkins boys out there had some pretty nice mounts from out that way.....I don't think any were taken leagally!!!

[NelsonV]

I wished I had your problem. Wonder off during the off season and eat someone elses corn, protein feed, food plot, and drink their water. Then come hunting season they come back to you. I wish I had it that bad. My deer do just the opposite. They eat all of my goodies in the off season and then disappear during hunting season!! lol

[bone]

Yeah jferg33 I know the hawkins and plenty of other road hunters. I dont really have a problem with any of that thank god. I am not complaining about my situation I just would like it if I could get some good velvet pics I think they are cool, but sure I would rather have the bucks in season and have LDPS than the velvet pics.

[bowhuntntxn]

Pm me GPS coordinates and I will go watch for them!! I might even herd them over to ya from next door if need be!

[Mark jackson]

Well my problem is a little diffrent I only see little bucks on my cameras and does and for some strange reason i never had a pic of mature buck but we seem to shoot a couple good ones every year and never even seen them before the moment we pull the trigger, I dont know where they hide or where they come from

[Txnrog]

Yeah I have plenty of cover and currently have four cameras goin, a couple on feeders and others on major trails that I get pics on all fall. Do the bucks require better nutrition this time of year than the does do? I mean the does are nursing and raising fawns right now so it seems they would need just as much as the bucks but I still have a ton of does I get pics of regularly. I kept cameras out all summer last year and had the same problem, I only got a few bucks on cam all summer and the ones I did were yearlings. Things change around September I will start getting some bucks on cam and it gets good the closer it gets to rut and through the rest of the winter. Just seems strange to me.

During the spring/summer, the bucks separate from the does and start bacheloring it - as you well know. When they do so, they will usually move to areas different from the does. With a half section, they could easily just be holing up on your neighbor's place as that is there preferred summer location. I've seen it on our place many times - they don't leave, but we'll have a couple feeders that get hit mainly by bucks, and the rest get hit by does and yearlings. I think they just naturally segregate themselves so that they both have access to good feed and low competition. They are very much annual creatures of habit, so unless disturbed will go to very similar areas year after year.

[EZ-10RANCH]

I would guess that the deer don't go anywhere. They just are not hungry and get 100% of their diet from browse without moving around much. The bucks are all in groups and the does are all off by themselves having their babies in the thickest cover they can find.
They will be hitting your feeder by late august when everything green is cooked.

I agree..

[lovemylegacy]

Layed up next to someones garden, maybe its a little to hot to be moving.They aren't too far away.

[bdavid1020]

Lets us know if you get the game cam out and get any pics...

[Breezy]

Bwhahahhahahhahah try asking them where they go.

[gatorgar]

Bringing up a 4 year old thread? Someone's bored, lol

Bone, did you find your deer?

[bone]

Bringing up a 4 year old thread? Someone's bored, lol

Bone, did you find your deer?

Looks like I have a stalker! Lol

I always have good deer in the fall! They just stay gone all summer and then show back up after they start to shed velvet.

[Ferg]

From what I have read from Dr. James Kroll's book the Does get the best areas to raise their fawns, the bucks are in bachelor groups and the does will not tolerate the bucks at this time of year, come fall the cycle starts over again

[Bayouboy]

I hunt east Tx and have bucks and does eating out of my free choice feeders regularly and at the same time right now. But , I also know that come November most of the deer I start seeing are totally different than what I saw earlier in the year.

[Buckwheat]

Yes they do the same on our place but it's apposite. We have a ton of deer during the summer. Big bucks and ton of does. Then the week before bow season. Nothin. We grow them and hold them for our neighbors to shot. Lol.