All I can say is that I am seeing the same thing. Ours tends to be a property that the bucks don't stay on most of the year anyway, but this year seems even worse.
It'll turn around in 2 - 3 weeks guys . . . .
Waiting for it to cool down and Skeeters to be dead. It is always a good idea to get out and knock the rust off though. Seems like I always forget something my first couple of times out.
We have a bully that if I see I will shoot too. I think he is why other nice deer are not coming over. They might be bigger, but they just don't want to deal with his attitude.
I would shoot him ASAP with a land owner tag if you have one.
I grew up learning the hard way too, but like some others have said, with everything the boys had going on all of the time I am sure that they would not have gone at all if they had to put in as much effort as I did.
Who knows if they will go out as adults, but I wanted to make sure that we had...
I did get one video with a couple of nice youth season target bucks pushing each other around (120"ish). Of course they don't show up when we're sitting there . . .
Ok, if we can get the forecast to drop another 5-10 degrees this weekend might be ok for the youngsters.
We won't be able to get out until Sunday. It would be nice if it wasn't in the 80's.
Sounds promising. If noone else is bowhunting it then it may work out. Noone is early muzzy hunting?? Are you planning to hunt there at all besides bow season?
I have lived this. I hunted a farm for 20 years and then the owner's son took over. He didn't ask me not to hunt, but he let a few of his buddies in. Eventually it ended up being too busy and I hardly saw any decent ones any more. I ended up just not hunting there any more . . .
If you want to...
One of the coolest bucks I ever saw was a 21" wide 6pt with 13"g2's that were massive. I'm a sucker for them, but I agree that you don't want those genetics. Have a youth hunter that would be tickled to shoot him?
I guess the way I've seen it is that I want to give them an opportunity to see what it is like and decide for themselves if it is something that they might have a passion for. While they're young, Dad will kind of set things up for them. After they are 16 there is plenty of time for them to...
My son's last year as a youth hunter. He can shoot what he wants. We have no "target deer" that we are looking for so he will need to make the choice on what to shoot when. Pretty sure he'll shoot the first 120" buck that shows up or if he gets impatient he'll whack a doe. Either way we'll have...
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