A buddy and I were after a management buck this weekend. Hunted Friday evening through this morning and never had ONE buck in bow range. On our ranch they're in the transition period into rubbing, scrapes, etc before rut. They could give a chit less about corn and protein. Had 8 management bucks on camera consistently until about Thursday. We'll try and skim one in December
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Originally posted by Aggiehunter08 View PostA buddy and I were after a management buck this weekend. Hunted Friday evening through this morning and never had ONE buck in bow range. On our ranch they're in the transition period into rubbing, scrapes, etc before rut. They could give a chit less about corn and protein. Had 8 management bucks on camera consistently until about Thursday. We'll try and skim one in December
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Originally posted by kry226 View PostIf your season is opening this morning, best of luck to all. Be safe!
Just to follow up, I was very uncharacteristically late getting to the stand last Thursday morning due to my oversleeping and got to the stand about daybreak. Sat for about an hour and a horse of a muley doe sneaks in and beds down at 20 yards. I watched her lay there for an hour or so and chew her cud, during which I decided I would take her if she gave me a shot when she stood up. Well she did, and I did, and she's now in the freezer.
Originally posted by myway View PostI had this guy at 15 yards last night. They are definitely starting to move better. Well except so far this AM.
Originally posted by talltexasshoote View PostIt looked like this
Good luck everybody
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I got up with the full intention of hunting deer Saturday morning. But, as commonly happens for me, on the way out I changed my mind and decided to call coyotes instead. So I headed up north of the river and did that. Called a pair on the first stand and got both. Called another pair on the second stand, killed one and the second got away in the weeds. Third stand called a single and killed it with a 50 yard running shot. Felt pretty good to be putting fur on the ground.
I didn't hear many shots, didn't see many hunters. Got to see my landowner and had a good talk with him too. Got some really good info on some additional spots to take my daughter to shoot a deer. All in all, a very productive morning.
We need some wet weather though to help start laying down some of these weeds. Pastures are thick this year. Hard to see and makes it tough picking spots to call coyotes from. I would say a fella needs to watch any shot deer pretty close too. It is going to be easy to walk right past them. Mr Bonner may get quite a bit of work this year.
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Hunted Friday night through Sunday morning outside of McLean and it was slow all weekend accept last half hour of Saturday night, then we had a buck parade go by us. Passed a really nice mature 8 point. Seeing runs and scrapes being made but even the young bucks weren’t harassing does yet. Overall slow Movement, but that will all change in a couple weeks.
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Originally posted by Jethro View PostI
We need some wet weather though to help start laying down some of these weeds. Pastures are thick this year. Hard to see and makes it tough picking spots to call coyotes from. I would say a fella needs to watch any shot deer pretty close too. It is going to be easy to walk right past them. Mr Bonner may get quite a bit of work this year.
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Originally posted by Mudslinger View PostSlow, slow, slow is all I can say about the Friday before opening weekend thru yesterday morning. Perfect weather. Only positive is we have a lot of does showing up along with numerous buck fawns. Very few does and no fawns last year.
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Originally posted by Top Of Texas View PostWeeds amd grass are so tall I don't know how you found a spot to call from unless you were calling giraffes.
Nobody wants to hear it, but a good heavy snow or ice storm would help a lot. I've got some places IDK if I will be able to call at all this year. I'm not carrying the bolt action 243 very much, instead using the suppressed 14.5" AR because it is so much faster in cover. I took a 2 day carbine class at Badlands Tactical last spring and have been practicing a whole lot with that AR, it has really helped my rapid target transitions. Looks like that is a skill I may be needing with my calling this year. It sure helped on the stands this weekend.
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