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Originally posted by Native Texan View PostEast Texas hunting can get tough after the first few weeks of the woods being full of human activity. Our deer seem to vanish by second week of November, so a lot of members don't hunt much after that. Usually by the second week of December hardly anyone goes to the lease and they start showing up again at the feeders. By Christmas they are hungry and hitting the feed hard.
I've hunted East Texas deer for the past 42 years. The first 20 years I didn't feed at all, not even hand corn. I hunted trails, scrapes, and especially oaks dropping acorns, usually filling 4 deer tags during October. It wasn't until I introduced my son to hunting that I started using feeders because it was easier to sit with him in a blind watching one. For about 10 years there I was a "feeder watcher" hoping to draw the deer to me, but just didn't see the quality or numbers of deer that I saw when I was actually "hunting for them".
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Originally posted by Johnny View PostMy deer go through the same lull but not because of human traffic, it's because of the rut and they aren't interested in corn. When the rut winds down, the deer are down right hungry and start hitting feed sources hard. Same thing year after year.
X2 hunt the does and be ready at a moment’s notice, other wise just practice patients and prayer they make it through till post rut lol
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Originally posted by jershua View PostThanks for the insight - what makes you wished it would have been a week prior? No luck the last week of October or just a trend you are seeing?
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Originally posted by Johnny View PostHad a decent morning at bow lease in Montgomery County. A couple young bucks and a group of does just left. Fixing to pack it in and head to my spot in Houston County for an afternoon sit.
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Unfortunately I am not able to take advantage of this great weather this weekend. Might try couple days end of next week, but first week of November is looking to be my next long attempt.
Good luck to you and all out in the woods this weekend.
J
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Any feeder activity has completely shut down, like the switch was turned off a week and half ago.
Started poking around the edge of what few oak flats we have left, and found them stocked to the gills with deer right now. Acorns are definitely where it is at right now and the corn is literally piling up (even hand corn).
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All of my movement was between 7:45am and 9am. Had a 2yr old 9pt come in at 5yds and eat hand corn for a few mins and then 2 does hung out for about an hour. I had another unidentified deer comein 50yds downwind and winded me. My shooter was at the feeder yesterday morning at 7:30. The bucks have still been hitting the sweetfeed hard all week and are still eating together as of yesterday. Absolutely zero scrapes in any of the dozen or so usual locations so far.
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Originally posted by Pineywoods View PostAll of my movement was between 7:45am and 9am. Had a 2yr old 9pt come in at 5yds and eat hand corn for a few mins and then 2 does hung out for about an hour. I had another unidentified deer comein 50yds downwind and winded me. My shooter was at the feeder yesterday morning at 7:30. The bucks have still been hitting the sweetfeed hard all week and are still eating together as of yesterday. Absolutely zero scrapes in any of the dozen or so usual locations so far.
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Originally posted by Gumbo Man View PostYears ago I used to go trampling around everywhere down all the trails looking for fresh rubs and scrapes as time has gone by I quit doing that. I stay out of the woods period. It belongs to the deer and I don’t put un-needed pressure on them. At one of my locations I have a creek about 500 yards from my rifle blind. In 4 years I’ve hunted there I’ve never walked any of the many trails to the creek. I want to and probably will soon enough to find a good bow stand location. But until then I just let the deer be deer. That doesn’t make me a better hunter than anyone in fact it probably makes me less of a hunter. It’s just one of my many pet peeves when it comes to hunting. Minimize human intrusion just makes sense to me. Now along ROWs and roads I’m always looking for scrapes and rubs but seldom see any.
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Due to layout of my property, it is hard for me to slip into a stand on a North wind. So today I decided to cook a brisket and ribs. Had deer down the hill from the house pretty much all day eating corn. This afternoon I had 3 does and 8 bucks. 3 different bucks trailing a doe all afternoon, each one was a little bigger but nothing over the top.
2 spikes
A 3 point
A 4 point
7 point about 16"
3 8 points biggest was around 16" other two were not legal
9 hogs. Killed 3 of them from the porch with rifle. Original group started out at 26 and I have been taking them out over the last 2 weeks.
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