Well the local Whitetails

[Rudi]

I remember elk hunts when we'd see big bucks in the rut. Like they were eye balling our truck, "maybe I can get it" they were thinking. Kind of like men at times

 

[SteveA]

Deer aren't doing much yet here in Kansas but the out of state hunters are here in force. Ran a couple of a pasture of mine last night.

 

[mtgianni]

Between town and 40 miles south of me they are still averaging one hit deer on the highway daily. The Elk have not yet been a problem but when the season starts we will get two a week hit on the same highway. The land is so tied up that 1st cousins are not close enough relatives to hunt on most of it. A friend who has a poor place for deer still gets 50-60 requests to hunt his place per year.

 

[Bald1]

Well, there’s one less doe in WNY than there was. The first mature doe to come down the trail gets a broadhead. Now there’s meat in the freezer and rest of bow season and gun season I’ll hunt for horns.

 

[Skeet 028]

You know I've never really hunted for Horns...and I have seen many that would make the book. I always cared more for the food variety. After shooting a "few" for crop damage for farmers esp...I pretty much left the bucks alone...the big ones hung out on our farm in Md...,mostly all fall. Till the season was over anyway. Wife thought iit was funny. Darn things ate the corn right out of our granary when my daughter left the door open ..accidentally.

 

[Bald1]

I like the challenge of patterning a mature buck and devising a plan to harvest him. Sometimes you win. Sometimes he wins. We are overrun with does on my lease. There is a 13:1 ratio in sightings some years. I always like to take one early during archery. Now when the rut starts I don’t have to worry about shooting a doe that might have a buck right behind her. The bucks are already grunting and chasing does here. It’s the earliest I’ve ever seen it.