Cedar Creek This Week

Heading up to Cedar Creek this Thursday. Anybody been so far this year and have any advice? Will be in units 7&8.

Scout the first half day and then hunt right before dark…best way to attack these soa hunts.

I’ll be there as well. Units 1 and 2 👍🏻

Good luck. Keep us posted

I wish I could but me and my buddy are driving down Thursday night to hunt Friday morning. I’ve cyber scouted so much I know every corner of my units on the map but we’ll be going in blind

Had an incredible weekend. Guest and I killed a couple does and I lucked up with the biggest deer of my life. I’m thinking high 130’s and possibly 140. Will upload a few photos and a story this afternoon or in the morning. Southwood nice to meet you and glad y’all got a good one too!

Here he is. Big thanks to the guys from the state that put these hunts on.

Heck of a deer! Congrats!!!

Damit son that’s a stud.

Awesome deer.

It was a pleasure to meet y’all and congrats again on a STUD of a buck. Cedar creek was awesome even with the warm weather we had. I let a borderline buck walk on Saturday morning and my guest let one walk that in hindsight he should’ve shot on Friday morning. This morning at a little past 8am my buddy spotted 3 bucks walking together in a cutover and shot the biggest one. 4 year old, 142lbs, 16” spread and 21” beams.

Congratulations WEMO, awesome deer!

Congratulations to your friend Southwood!

Awesome deer buddy!

Awesome Buck!!

Nice deer. He’ll be in the low 140’s

Damn son, the aldeer crew went to cedar creek and cleaned house.

Be try nice - congrats

Two very nice deer

Congrats! Two great deer.

Boy howdy them some goiduns fellers

Two fine AL bucks. Congrats to both of y’all.

Dadgum boys. Great looking buck deers. Glad y’all caught some!!

Heck yeah WEMO!!! That’s a GREAT public land buck! Proud for you buddy! 👍👍

Heck Yeah Congrats for sure. Great bucks!

Dangit boys!! Some studs right there. Congrats to you both!!

Congrats WEMO and to your buddy Southwood !!!

Well done gentlemen.

Congrats guys. Two great deer!

Heck yeah Wallpaper 👍🏻

Congrats to all! Nothing says success like that smile you have!
Wow!!!!!!!!!

Something to add about cedar creek and these SOA hunts. The state does a fantastic job communicating and setting the hunts up. They send out a ton of information and I honestly learned a lot about aging deer while preparing for the hunt. Bucks have to have a 16” inside spread or 18” main beam and I’ve learned that takes a really good deer to meet those requirements.

Congrats guys!!

Great bucks! Congrats guys! Aldeer crew put the hurt on some bucks.

Between Cedar Creek and Thigpen, I’m thinking the state is going to have another question on their app next year...”Are you a member of aldeer?” 😂

Justin is an incredible guy and works very hard at his job

FYI, if you show up to the skinning rack with a 2 year old 6 point and a button buck that you’ve already cut the nuts off to try and hide it....

the GW will confiscate your deer
Your 4 day hunt will be over
You will get a ticket

😂🍿

Takes all kinds.

was it an obvious young buck or could you see where a mistake was made?

MC you can’t mistake many 2 year olds for a 16” inside or 18” beam buck. Virtually all 2 year olds are protected under that rule. Very very few exceptions. Heck, most 3 year olds are too lol. Would be hard to make that mistake.

Crap when we went to Uchee there was a pic of one that was a 13 point that didn’t meet either criteria. Gw said he couldn’t blame the guy hot shooting him.

I met the hunter who shot that buck. Said he wasn’t allowed to register for another SOA hunt for a year or so. He didn’t care. The buck was amazing.

Great looking deer! Hope we see some like that in late January on our hunt!

What units do you have Sarge?

Congrats fellas, awesome bucks!

We have units 9 & 13. Planning to stay down at Roland Cooper State Park. Will you be down there?

Me and someone would be having a conversation assuming the buck aged 4+. The rules are to protect young bucks. We shouldn’t be punishing hunters when the buck meets the AGE criteria they are ultimately after.

Guy last year at Portland landing killed a really pretty 10pt the first afternoon. The biologist literally showed him pictures where it had been coming to a clover patch every afternoon and told him to go kill it. Probably a 130” deer. It took some fudging with that tape measure to make one main beam 18&1/4”.