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I’ve had 4 bucks show up in last 2 days that I’ve never had on camera. It’s like they have calendars.

Me too doc! I had a stud show up this morning, I’m gonna bet he’ll weigh 225 plus. Robinhedd

Is it not still bow season for a week….

Neighbors quit feeding them?

So have I.

Gonna be some good hunting weather middle of next week.

They out and about looking

The period prior to green up is very hard on deer. There is the least amount of food to be found at this time. Turn off every corn feeder on Feb 10th and the deer are forced to their feet. My feeders are still spinning and the survivors are still eating daily. Gives me a chance to work on the nest predators as an added bonus.

You’re in an area with an early-mid January rut. Buck Age structure is most likely badly out of whack and most likely there are not enough bucks to breed all the does in their first cycle. The rut will last until the last does are bred. Bucks are now greatly expanding their ranges and roaming all over the country looking for those unbred does coming into their second or third cycles. Happens all over most of Alabama and will continue until that smell is no longer in the air. It’s pretty much a statewide situation and is very detrimental to the entire herd. Especially the buck population. .

Same here but my neighbor feeds in troughs and I imagine he filled them up probably a week or ten days ago for the last time so they are empty and I am still feeding.

Those will all be great deer next season. LOL. Great G1 gene you have going by the way.

They're wondering where the magic corn has disappeared to? It only takes a day of me running out and they run off to the neighbor's property.

Yep, food.

It's not just the food where I am at. They are still actively running does, mature bucks showing up I haven't seen since last year this time

I got a few that have showed up too.

They are hungry and run down

They are still looking hard for does in Wilcox and south Dallas.

Bucks aren’t worried about food around here right now. Unless there’s some does around those food sources. We’re probably on our second go around for unbred does.

Theyre looking for leftovers

Moonphase was the earlier phase this year and lockdown with record heat had them shut down around lowndes. Cameras all over between fields. Zero movement except minimal on Greenfields. They showed up again on the 11th when it cooled. Next week will be boocoo deer being bred.