1/21

Good luck fellas. About to load up of coffee and head out. It’s cold!

Quick hunt before church. Got a glimpse of a shooter here yesterday evening.

Cold here. Truck said 20 when I got out. Shooting house this morning. Camera were going off regularly till around 4:30 this morning. Hopefully as cold as it is they will get back on their feet. Good luck

Good luck, got church then my youngest ones birthday lunch in bham.

Young spike just crushed through

Cameras were popping off from 1am till 5:30am this am

Hope to go after church

Saw 1 spike yesterday. My best deer was in road at 6:30 am yesterday and at 9 am be was in a road on other side of property from where he was at 6:30 - looking. He a 5 year old and may score 115

There’s 9 does and fawns in my backyard right now at 12 degrees.

My cameras are dead, maybe no deer or too cold to respond? The deer didn’t even hit the corn in the backyard last night

Waiting until it warms up a bit! Coffee and breakfast with the wife and kids sounded pretty good this morning.

I’ll go this afternoon. Too cold for me but yesterday would have been a jam up day. Anybody have any luck yesterday?

Buddy got a 7 point. I almost shot a doe, but she winded me before I could get my gun up.

They hit the corn yesterday evening, but it was right at dark, until that time, I hadn't seen a deer around my house in 2 days, have seen nothing this morning....

Have not been on here since last Wed/Thur I think. Killed a nice one Friday afternoon ( Barbour Co)... processor said the fat was tinged pink which was an indicator the rut was on. The buck followed a doe from a pine thicket into a wide open pasture. Unfortunately, it was a 203 yard shot and all I I had was a .308 with Corelokts , but he piled up DRT. Probably just got lucky.
45 degrees and 10-12 mph winds. I have been paying attention to everyone saying you can kill big deer in a high wind- so I went. It worked out for me.

In a shooting house with a heater. Had a small rack chase a doe in front of the ranger riding in. Was a doe in my plot when I got here. I was a little later getting here. Despite me dripping my faucets, I got no water in the camper this morning so I had to deal with that before leaving. I’ve heard 3 shots since I got here.

I’m in a climber in a spot I haven’t hunted since November. Good bucks on camera. Just need one to cruise through. Trying to think warm thoughts!

Haven’t heard a single gunshot this morning Unusual for down here

Mid day to dark for the win today I bet.
Good luck, I’ll take my daughter this pm.

My wife and girls wanted to skip church today! I got in the tree a little after 11, listened to Cornerstone Church live through my headphones, about to eat my sandwich and see what happens! Had some does and smalls small buck on camera ab 10-10:30 but have had some real good ones on camera mid day recently! I’ve never been in the woods at this time, we’ll see how long I can last!

I am about to jump on 4 wheeler and head out to sit till dark. Good luck to all!

I've never heard that if fat was tinged pink that was an indication of the rut..... Hmmm did he make that up?.... Congrats on that big buck Stickers...

Settled in for the evening hunt. Good luck everyone!

Back in a ground blind. Let’s see what happens

Here for afternoon.

Just got in the shooting house after putting out some corn and a drag rag sprayed with Native Scent. Hope to see something more than spikes, does and yearlings.
Good luck to all!

Maybe the big boys will come out a few minutes earlier today

Just sat down across the road. Had 3 gobblers in field. There was a decent buck on camera behind the house at 11:45am cruising

No deers this morning. Back here in the thick nasty this evening.

Got on stand 20 min ago - spike already came by so okay hunt already

Good luck

At my buck field - with lack of deer been seeing - expectations very low. At least spot fresh - hardly hunted this stand all year

How is the wind situation for you today? Steady or swirling? If steady, you might get lucky!

Working the thermals, Sitting with my back to the little warrior in a little block of woods with my buddiy....

we both have our sons and are sitting together covering this bottom.

Got here late and sounded like a freight train coming through the woods.

Hopefully we did not blow everything out of here.

Beautiful afternoon and sitting in some beautiful woods that haven’t been messed with too much.

Good luck fellas!

On a bow stand where a shooter has been showing up right after dark. Hoping he’s early today!

Deer were all over the place here in MO today. I cut and split a loiad of wood for a widow and just running it out to her place and back (maybe 10 miles eound trip) my son and I saw 23 deer. We didnt even go near any row crop fields where they are easier to see. Saw several small 8 pointers.

Guy is pretty straight up. He has been processing deer in that area for the last 15 yrs or so... that is what he said he notices most when "rutty" looking deer come in. Has to do with stress and adrenaline surging during chase and lockdown he thinks. He has no reason to tell anyone a tall tale.

Rut is wide open in my neck of the woods. Typically the 21/22 around where we hunt is the absolute peak best time to hunt and it paid off again. Killed the 10 chasing off another buck from his doe. Had another 8 run a doe all over about 10 minutes before I shot him. Got in the stand at 3 shot him at 330. Saw 3 bucks total and 2 does. Had a 4 point running does all over while dragging him out. Been after this one for a few years, not a some high scoring stud but an older buck we wanted to shoot.

Been 5 or 6 years since I’ve shot one with a gun! Felt great!


Ice on his back from the winter storm

Congrats Demp

Congrats demp

Nice buck Demp17.

Congrats Demp!

Congrats Demp!

Great deer demp - congrats

Buck tracking - freakin wind switched late - it indicated it prob would - got snorted late - wind switched to west - lot of crap winds this year - i chanced it - got burnt

Had something happen never happen. I hav smelled rutting bucks i hav shot before when i got 30-40 yards from them going to them laying dead. I got a huge whiff of a rutting buck on the way out tonite - stank bad. Wind had switched west - he was on the left side of road as i walked out. Not the deer that snorted

Congrats Demp! I killed this one at 2 this afternoon. He was a couple minutes behind a doe. 172 lbs live weight.

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Congrats - nice deer

Congratulations to the killers today!

Congrats to y’all! Nice bucks.

Congrats killas!

Congrats

Congrats 280

Good bucks!!