No Bucks

twistedbrilliance

twistedbrilliance

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Just returned home from hunting up on the parents farm.
We covered thousands of acres, forest, fields and ponds. Generally there are loads of deer around, but this season we only got buck tags and the deer knew it...
Right off the bat we pushed 7 doe's out of the bush, they were being very playful with each other, jumping around and running through the fields. We walked the bush and saw some multiple rubbings but no bucks...
Shortly after we had came across another two doe's eating, they just looked up at us and kept on munching away, as though they knew we had no tags for them, and they where safe.
Anyways we kept finding doe's and not so much as one buck:(
Worst part is last years venison is almost all gone....
Has anyone else noticed a shortage of bucks or is it just us?
 
We where talking to a friend who is a butcher and he said at this time of year he gets 70 plus through his door and so far he has had 7. So I doubt it's just us.
plus bucks are more solitary the will usually be found alone not in numbers.
 
If there's does around, the bucks won't be far away. With all that breeding stock, they can't help themselves...:D

I find that bucks tend to be nocturnal around here at the first sign of any hunting pressure, and they will lay under a juniper bush all day while you walk by them.;)
 
The hunters in my area are having a real tough time finding any mulies. Lots of WT kicking around but no jumpers.
 
One thing I noticed when I started using game cameras is that there A LOT more bucks than you think there are. The bucks are there somewhere, they are just hiding.

Bucks will tend to stick to the thicker stuff while the does will be in the "soft" areas.
 
I have had no trouble seeing bucks this year. I've been talking with other guys and they are seeing them where most hunters wouldn't expect to find them. In my case, I have seen three so far bedded up in a wide open wheat stubble field. My buddy shot one that was holed up in a low spot filled with grass and one little sprig of buck brush. The buck just bedded down and laid his head down. My friend sat on top of the hill for four hours before the buck even raised his head enough that he could see horns - and it was by no means a small deer either.

Keep trying, even though the rut is on, they big ones still have some sense about them. In my latest watches from the train they are starting to hang out with the does.
 
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