Sunday morning was strange, hot, high winds and full moon. Saw 3 little bucks and zero does. Bigger bucks are starting to show un on trail cameras.

I went out Sunday evening. Two minutes til shoot time was up I got a 13 pt with a drop on it's right side just a few miles East of Montague.

our deer were pre rut. Nothing really serious yet. Has to be getting really close. We are north of St. Jo.

Seems like just about everything is pretty much nocturnal.
Not hearing a lot of shots.

5 miles South of Bowie off Picket run Road

Hunted Friday PM through Monday PM, I'm on the east side Lake Nocona. Had pic of 2 big 8 pts (never seen before) on camera showing up last week consistently through Thursday PM. A big 12 that was seen on camera previously up and vanished. The two 8 pts never showed back up this weekend.

The heat, wind and full moon must have messed up the timing. I saw a ton of deer in the morning and afternoon, does and young bucks. Yesterday afternoon, had a group of 5 does come in to feeder, young 6 point came in hard chasing the does around. I'm figuring the rut is about to kick off in earnest this week. And with the weather this weekend should be awesome hunting.

On a side note, the wisdom of hunting mid afternoon during full moon... sucks. I sweated the entire time and lost out on my nap. I'm thinking again the heat and wind had something to do with the inactivity. Hopefully see the rut in full action on Saturday through Monday.

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Hopefully this image works. I think these may be the same deer. Near Nocona. I'm thinking 4 1/2 yr old? 120 - 130?

LC hunter
That's a nice one.
Today is the first day I've seen bucks cruising around. Wind really picked up after 9:30. Only seen one young legal buck this year. Got picks of a 3.5-4.5 heavy but not tall 10. I hope I get a newbie showing up this week. I'm about 3-4 miles from ya.

Good luck to you. Maybe that 12 point that was on my place is heading to you! This is my first year in Montague. So far based on the pics of the mature ones, I'm impressed.

The rut is on !!! Had a good one (8 point) run a doe right in front of me yesterday morn. Passed him up. Might have been a mistake. This am a young 8 had a doe pend up in some trees for 2 hours. All doe I have seen have been singles now.

This is the 13 pt with drop tine tht I got just outside of Montague Sunday evening

Awesome buck! Congrats. Cracks me up you both are in shorts. I wish I had a pair this past weekend!

Nice!

I'll be there Friday. Looks like trying to keep warm and not blow over will be the biggest goal.

Cold and rainy this weekend, boys. Lotsa fire and Macallan.

Snuck away from the office Friday afternoon and shot this buck. Finally decided to get off the feeder and hunt a trial. This guy cruised by at 5:00.

Congrats!

The weather keeps getting better and better for Friday... Might need a nice scraper. Think I might just wrap the truck in camo burlap and park in a mesquite tree over a corned road.

From what I can tell, the wind is gonna ruin Friday and Saturday. Maybe if your setup is in a hole and blocks the north wind real well, might make it better for you than others. Sunday and Monday look awesome.

My neighbor shot a 170 class outside of Bonita last week.

If i could figure out photobucket id post some pics.

I am at bonita
Did it have crab claws?
Tall brow times?
Average width and basket shaped?

Left g2 was split and lot of mass kinda palmated on both beams?

So far, the deer are pretty much day time no shows on my place just South of Bowie. I've seen a lot of yearlings that Mama has kicked off but no chasing. Heck, I'm only seeing nocturnal deer on my game cams. Maybe I need to go when it's cold and rainy.

4 so far this morning. 3 does were at feeder until a little grouchy 4 point run em off. Little turd is still there too.

That happened to me on Monday. A little 6 running and chasing the does off. I'm jazzed about this weekend!

I'll start my 7 day hitch saturday morning. Gonna hunt this evening for sure and maybe tomorrow if the winds stay below gale force level.

Same here
Tuesday a little six ran 7 does and fawns off my feeder. Watched an eight make a scrape. I took post hole diggers and made a 18" deep hole and filled it with corn. I then hand threw a quarter of a bag in a circle around it. I put this the opposite direction of my feeder. I got increased buck traffic from it.