Anyone going up for the opening weekend of bow season, I have never hunted kentucky looking for info. Looking at Peabody wma for a bow hunt. Not looking to kill a monster just a decent buck.

Good luck. More than likely it will be very hot. I've pretty much quit hunting opening weekend up there

I can't give you any public land info but I can tell you that if you think ticks are bad in Alabama, you are in for a shock in KY.

Hunt the wind and spray down real good. With good bug spray

Water and bean fields.

The ticks are ridiculous up there.

I’m gonna wait and go first weekend of November and go back the next weekend for gun.

What's the non-resident fee up there now to kill one buck? $500 or so?

Nonresident fees are 330 for hunting license, and 60 dollars for a deer tag which gets you one buck and one doe or two does; then depending on what zone you hunt you can buy additional doe tags for i believe 15 dollars a tag. So all in all not bad and haven't really gone up much over the past few years.

As far as opening weekend, I plan on hunting it this year. I've hunted it once before and it was dang near miserable with the heat but the potential for a velvet buck is well worth it IMO. This time of year you better have a good consistent food source if you plan on having any action. If you can get anywhere around beans you should see some action but don't know where you plan to hunt. Also morning sits are really difficult and I plan on simply hunting the afternoons on a bed to food pattern. I've got a lease so I've been running corn for a little over a month and I've got one really good 8 that is like clockwork with a group of other smaller bucks. Hopefully he keeps his velvet and keeps his pattern until September. Good luck!

I'm pretty sure your information in not accurate on license cost. According to the link below Annual Hunting is $140 and deer permits is $120. Which is a total of $260.00.

https://fw.ky.gov/Licenses/Pages/Fees.aspx

Thanks, Squeaky. For some reason I thought it was much higher.

Crap had a brain fart, Squeaky is right. My total I pay each year is around 330, because I get the hunt permit, then the deer permit then the spring turkey which totals somewhere around 330. My bad on the false info.

Clem Illinois is the expensive one. $465 archery, $50 annual license, $5.50 habitat stamp and $365 for gun tag. It's ridiculous what that state charges but I pay it every year. Kentucky is a deal when compared to Illinois.

True, and Kansas is expensive, too.

Maybe I was thinking about Kentucky but including some other licenses (like fishing, WMA) but not just the flat license-permit for deer. Yes, defintely less expensive than Illinois and others.

Ill be there opening of bow for 3 days. I like trying for a big velvet buck but it will have to be big for me to shoot.

Hunting afternoons only most likely, as to not pressure the deer.

Ive found that keeps them on their early season patterns. Going in the am just spooks them and lets them know your hunting them. Just sliding in 3 -3 1/2 hours before dark works best. Ill go up the night before the opener and glass to locate them in food plots and the crops, and see which bucks are by stands. Ill Check cameras too, and go with the spots that JUST had them there the night or 2 before.

Hopefully Ill get lucky.

Dont you worry AC!!

It will have to be one of the top 2 -3 bucks we will have pics of for me to let an arrow fly. Im saving everything for you if I can! Plus, I want to be there in the rut again. Last year was incredible at that time.

If Peabody is your destination, I'm right next to it.

Outdoorobsession is your lease surrounded by beans or what? Our place is surrounded entirely by ag but this years rotation appears to be all corn, and I haven't seen a bean field within a couple of miles of our place. It definitely changes their pattern but next year hopefully it will rotate back to beans which will make the early season that much better. Regardless I'm chomping at the bit to sling an arrow at something!

The more Midwest hunters I talk with, the good ones, say this is their most effective tactic. Those who hunt in the mornings get into their stands, sometimes, 60 to 90 minutes early and get settled in to wait for bucks moving back to their early-morning bedding/loafing area. They've seen, and some movement studies have shown, that buck movement in the mornings most often is within the last hour before daylight -- including legal shooting time -- and getting in "just before daylight" either spooks them and disrupts their movement and/or is unproductive.

That's not rigid, by any means, but certainly a strategy to consider.

I can't find the specific one about the morning movement. I think Auburn's Deer Lab did it. This is another one they did on overall movements, patterns and how deer can pattern hunters based on pressure - usually weekend pressure - which is interesting:

http://www.deeranddeerhunting.com/d...ve-research-much-deer-patterning-hunters

Thats what we have learned as well. I love catching on summer feed patterns. But that is centered on catching where they come out in late afternoon.

If you bugger em early in the am...you already threw them off their pattern. They probably heard/saw/smelled you coming and left in the dark and you never saw them or EVEN worse...you walked up on them and they ran like heck!

. And when they did went further, and bedded in a different place. All that "patterning" just went out the window and you are hunting "Hunted Deer " again. Not "not yet hunted this season bucks". Any pressure risks making them nocturnal. Not worth the risk IMHO.

Also, I know that Ole Harold Knight and David Hale up in Paducah , KY believe in only afternoon hunting, or so Ive heard.

A couple of other folks I know swear by it.

Of course, being dumb as a bag of rocks..I just had to hunt ams so I learned it the hard way...LOL!

Ended up getting great pictures of my target bucks leaving the area....lol. I figured it out after a few years....Cant fix stupid.

I’m looking forward to being part of outdoorobsession’s crew. I hear through the grapevine he “does it right” the way he sets up his properties to hunt.

Heck Anthony..that sounds like a heck of a plan! Even if I do stick a good un..Im going to be there either or both of those weekends, just to help you or the other guys drag em out!!

And Ill scout em from the road in the fields when yall are in the woods. Put yall on em. Im looking forward to having a good time up there again.

Im really looking forward to it.

And thanks for all your advice and KLAYS on boats! I dont care what Perch says about ya...your alright in my book!

Around our place is a cattle field on the western side. Great deer and turkey hunting..they both use it..it is hundreds of acres and the cattle are mostly in other fields.

Across the street, hay , pastures, and some corn. Again hundreds of acres. We have the BIGGEST CHUNK of TIMBER. Beautiful hardwoods I might add..with a bunch of PERSIMMON TREES in em!

The best part is the tops of 90% of the hills, especially along the "high Fence" are topped with Cedars and bedding areas!

Year round water with two creeks, waterfalls and a POND right along a 30 acre cedar thicket.

The east, fields, hay, clover etc and a LOT of corn in FEEDERS! That guy feeds em and manages them too .

The south side...A HIGH FENCE! Yep, living the dream...hunting Fair Chase inside the High Fence..just like that young guy whos name I forget!

It is bordered on the south by a highway and they have a 5" fence. The deer can jump it though but most follow it.

But our lease, believe it or not is planted in....WAIT FOR IT...









PUMPKINS! Yep, Pumpkins and Squash! Butternut Squash, Zuccina Squash..heck types I dont even know the names for! They literally DESTROY THEM.

The deer smash the pumpkins and eat em like crazy. Funniest thing seeing a deer with a 1/4 of a pumpkin shell in its mouth!

The best thing is that the farmer sprays weed killer and insecticide between the rows of pumpkins and squash. The crop matures in Sept, so we get to go it there and plant fall food plots with never doing a bit of work in mid August.

By Sept opener we have 3 week new growth food plots, pumpkins, squash and of course 800 pounds of corn/protein in feeders.

The farmer has a depredation permit for his other places but due to our lease cant shoot deer here. He loses 20% a year he complained to the land owner. He told him "well consider that in your bid as my hunters are top priority".

They love the pumpkin and squash. We plant oats, wheat, clover and purple topped turnips all amongst them after they reach maturity and the deer hammer those fall/winter plots.

We run around 12- 18 cameras, probably more this year...on the food plots, 8 feed sites, trails, a pond etc. We immediately put more on scrapes once they open up. We identify around 100% of pre rut bucks. Old Foldemup can tell you...I dial in on the deer. He did too. We all worked together on this lease that is for sure. It is a "Have fun and lets harvest our top 4 Bucks" kinda place.

We left a real nice 12 point, a bunch of 120 plus 8 pointers, a nice 9 point and more for this year. We should have at least 4 deer over 4, and at least that many 3 yrs olds. It should be a great year.

We love that the seasons are ALL before our rifle here in Bama. Archery, Muzzleoader and rifle all before our rifle opens.

It is a great place to go see deer, kill a respectable or better buck, have a lot of fun.

This is a great little lease with only 4 guys. 3 last year. We do it at a super reasonable price too. Cheaper then a 3 day hunt at an outfitter.