Deer moving in your neck of the woods??

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Been sitting out behind my house(central Va.) trying to kill Mr Big. Only been evening hunting and just have not seen very much movement at all. have seem "0" does and have passed on the same spike twice. Hope nthings heat up! How about you guys,seeing anything worth talking about???

[baysider]

Went saturday and killed a cull 5 pointer, boy was he ugly. Had a spike and 8 does around me throughout the morning. My buddy killed a nice 8 pointer. The rut is definetly on in my neck of the woods. Rubs and scrapes everywhere. 3 of us hunted that day, and i think we counted close to 30 diferent deer on a 250 acre farm. With the air getting colder they will move more and more. Hope your luck improves.

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Caught one on the move this evening( Monday) I'll call him one heck of a fork horn. His main beans are 20 1/4" long,15" wide. He had two crab claws measuring 5 " each. It was a real tall rack as well. Not Mr. Big but figured with waerfowl season just around the corner,better strike while the iron was hot! I do think he was just starting to rut.....

[baysider]

Here are a couple pics of the ones we got last Saturday. Mine wasnt Mr Big either but with a rack like that he had to go. Unfortunately for me the trophy hunting is over. This saturday starts the "thinning of the herd" for us. I have our farm and the surrounding 3 farms all working together to thin out some of the deer. The average wieght has dropped and the nicer racks are getting to be harder to find. We all took 25-30 off each farm last year and this year it doesnt even look like they were touched!

[baysider]

Well i tried to add pics.......

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You are right about thinning the herd. We have so many deer here in Va. that we all need to take several each year.

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Took the day off from waterfowl with the hopes of doing a lit deer hunting. Spent the morning in my box blind in the rain.... did not see any deer but was back after em this evening, did see 3 big old does feeding in the edge of the swamp, but no horns to be seem. Maybe tomorrow

[baysider]

Duck hunted the entire holiday weekend but the other boys got some deer. 4 and a 6 killed and 2 more does. Saw the ever illusive 12 pointer at noon run across the field while i cleaned ducks and helped with a few deer. I might have him patterned now though. Seems to be on a pretty consistant 3 day schedule to be found in the same place. Might have to give the ducks a break now.....

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Boy, you guys have a mess of deer in your area and from what you tell me, going to be some woopers hitting the dirt ...in do time! Can't wait to see the pics!

[Powhatan]

seems as if hunting pressure (dogs/man drives, & sounds of shots) surrounding our property has slowed down deer movement a lot. I Personally have not seen any deer in the last week or so but other guys on the land have seen some does but no bucks. I set my trail cam out on top of a fresh scrape and only got pics of a spike & some does working the scrape all at non shooting hours (dark). I do believe they are bedding most of the day and moving/eating at night...they now know "whats up"! So i'm going to push a lil closer to the bedding areas in hopes to catch one going in/out. Good luck to all this week!

2 bow season bucks & 1 black powder killed by me & my brother - my bro got the nice 8pt i got the other 2
10pt- black powder

8pt - bow season

8pt again - bow season

9pt bow season

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Nice

[baysider]

Nice deer man. Looks like a good season so far!!!

[VAbuck1]

honestly from what ive seen where iv been going, usually the deer are all over the place, but with this wet summer we had, theres plenty of food on the mountains and away from the fields that all i saw was 2 does feeding on a logging trail on the mountain i had to hike to the top to see. hopefully they will move to the fields and orchards soon to get a good meal instead of staying in the mountains...

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TEll ya what, it's getting ruff in my neck of the woods, deer simply are not moving.... Definately time to turn the dogs out at most clubs....shake some bushes

[baysider]

They are moving good here. Dont see the bucks in the fields anymore, but the does are like rats.

[VAbuck1]

cant eat the horns anyways. lol

[baysider]

cant eat the horns anyways. lol

This is very true. But the freezer is full already with several deer, ive given away a couple to families in need, and a doe looks really funny on the wall.