Day Walker
New Member
Hello to everyone, newbie to the forum here. Thanks for having me. I have been deer hunting for a long time and just changed locations. I went from 1000 acres and 6 people in Alabama to 100 acres with only my son and I hunting it. 20 acres of fields and the rest woods in central Ms close to the Alabama state line. This use to be a old orchard/farm with plenty Chestnut trees and persimion trees. I planted 8 acres of Iron clay peas and sunflowers during the summer and Buck busters fall mix which i added turnips to the mix. I also throw corn out. I have plenty of big bucks on cameras a'll through the year, mainly at night, especially now during the hunting season. 1 camera will have 18 different bucks ranging from unicorns up to 12 points, consistently, 500 pictures in a week, easy. With 4 cameras out well you do the math... The first thing i notice was the amount of feces all over, of all kinds, deer, Turkey, raccoon ,coyote and some I don't have any clue to what made it. Next thing were the all the sheds we have been finding , they are everywhere. Big ones little ones. They will puncture tires if your not careful. Deer rubs on trees all over, some trees as big as a full grown mans calf /thigh. The one thing that i am lacking are the scrapes. Where i came from you could look at a set of woods and you know where a deer were set out a scrape line. You could see the old scrapes filling in with debris but you could still them, and next year the buck would start them back up again as long as he wasn't shot. My new place I haven't found any old scrape lines but as of Dec 28-18 i just found 3 pitiful scrapes so i assume they are just starting which is about right. But for all the big bucks on camera I figured the place would be all scraped up. Now as for does I have a few but not what I would think I should have. The neighbors seem to kill them on site even the yearlings. This i am assuming, dont know but if they are killing bucks with every shot we are over run with bucks. Im just tired of looking at beautiful bucks on camera at all times of the night and come day light all i see are a doe/yearling, maybe. Ive looked for bedding areas and found nothing, I know the rut is coming and I assume things will change, but dam. Other than head lighting and suppressors (joke) any ideas as to how to get some big antlers on the ground. I am new to the area and I am still learning how to hunt it. Maybe bowhunt in the beginning then fish till January, then rifle hunt?? I need to learn how to post pictures here. Also i do shoot a single doe or 2 for meat so i got nothing against shooting the right doe. My area is rectangular, North to south and the neighbors on the east /West sides shoot alot (does i assume), the neighbors on my south seem to be against deer hunting (?) they make alot of noise from yelling to gunshots, weed whackers very loud pipe organ. The guy I leased from says they are too and tells me to invite the game warden over for visit, which I don't have any problems doing but it seems to be getting better, but we aren't blasting every time we go out. I got my meat so I'm waiting on the racks. I would think these big bucks have a safe haven somewhere close and was thinking the south side but there's no way they would sit through all the noise ?? But like I said it seems to be getting better. I guess I'm just venting but I've never seen anything like this. My old place you would be lucky to get 300 pictures of deer in 6 months and 3 might be shooter bucks. But the place was lousey with deer, deer everywhere, you would see 1-30 deer in one morning hunt. You could hop from one scrape to another in someplaces. No hunting pressure at all. Like i said im venting and i didnt know this forum existed. I will be posting other things off my chest just to hear other people's take.
Happy New Year everyone and I hope this goes through
Happy New Year everyone and I hope this goes through
