I only see bucks?

[oktx]

When I get pics of deer on my sorry little lease they are only of bucks and only at night. I never get pics of does. Why?

[Hockley]

We go through the same thing later in the season when the bucks start grouping back up. My thoughts are the bucks just push the does out and the does go elsewhere. I see 5 bucks to 1 doe in December and I know that isn't our ratio...

[kaizen]

It's not a problem as long as you are hunting bucks....I had the same issue on a lease. My spot was a travel corridor through dense cover. There wasn't much for the deer to eat in that area. Does would hang out near the large food plots in other members areas. The bucks would travel around lookng for does. I would see a lot of traveling bucks and occasionally a buck would herd a hot doe into the area away from the other deer. The area was good hunting during the rut but very frustrating before and after.

[Duck Sausage]

Same here!

[oktx]

It's not a problem as long as you are hunting bucks....I had the same issue on a lease. My spot was a travel corridor through dense cover. There wasn't much for the deer to eat in that area. Does would hang out near the large food plots in other members areas. The bucks would travel around lookng for does. I would see a lot of traveling bucks and occasionally a buck would herd a hot doe into the area away from the other deer. The area was good hunting during the rut but very frustrating before and after.

They are only at night. I can only hunt one day a week, this doesn't seem like enough pressure to make them go totally nocturnal.

[Codie]

They are only at night. I can only hunt one day a week, this doesn't seem like enough pressure to make them go totally nocturnal.

the pressure on your particular place is not the only pressure that effects the deer, especially if your place is small. Everything your neighbors do effects your deer herd as well. This is the same problem we are having this year. Our neighbors have 6 men and their families hunting the 630 acres to our West and their continued pressure on the place has really moved the deers patterns to night time

[oktx]

the pressure on your particular place is not the only pressure that effects the deer, especially if your place is small. Everything your neighbors do effects your deer herd as well. This is the same problem we are having this year. Our neighbors have 6 men and their families hunting the 630 acres to our West and their continued pressure on the place has really moved the deers patterns to night time

Yup, my place is small and everything around me is small.

[Roscoe]

We have been experiencing this year round since my uncle bought the place(110acres) 6yrs ago. Landowner in front of us has lived there for 50+ yrs and has seen a huge drop off in deer #'s, especially does in the last decade. He parallels it with the hog population. I know we catch very few does on camera year around and fawn survival "seems" to be extremely low as what does we do see almost never have a fawn with them. I caught one doe with one fawn with her on camera this year...that fawn is a nubber. I believe we have a large yote population in the area from what I hear at dusk and dawn most days. Last weekend I saw 10 deer...8 different bucks and 2 does. 6 of the bucks are deer I have gotten on cam fairly regularly this year. We have never killed a doe, but in reality, we don't know for sure what goes on around us harvest wise.

[oktx]

We have been experiencing this year round since my uncle bought the place(110acres) 6yrs ago. Landowner in front of us has lived there for 50+ yrs and has seen a huge drop off in deer #'s, especially does in the last decade. He parallels it with the hog population. I know we catch very few does on camera year around and fawn survival "seems" to be extremely low as what does we do see almost never have a fawn with them. I caught one doe with one fawn with her on camera this year...that fawn is a nubber. I believe we have a large yote population in the area from what I hear at dusk and dawn most days. Last weekend I saw 10 deer...8 different bucks and 2 does. 6 of the bucks are deer I have gotten on cam fairly regularly this year. We have never killed a doe, but in reality, we don't know for sure what goes on around us harvest wise.

The Trinity River cuts the place in half. It is 200 acres. We have our share of hogs and lots of coyotes. It has been this way for three years, we used to see a lot more deer, bucks and does.

[southpaw]

the pressure on your particular place is not the only pressure that effects the deer, especially if your place is small. Everything your neighbors do effects your deer herd as well. This is the same problem we are having this year. Our neighbors have 6 men and their families hunting the 630 acres to our West and their continued pressure on the place has really moved the deers patterns to night time

Yep, once general season opens my deer sightings go way down. I won't hunt more that one or two times past bow season.