Thread: Deer season

I know what you you mean ck, My wife and I eat deer meat 4-5 meals a week. I usually kill around 4 a year but I have killed 7 this year. Heck, I may not have to kill a cow this winter to get by! Now if I could just put a few crappie fillets in the freezer!

I live in the foothills in Wilkes and have not seen anything. Well a couple of does, We usually have deer running everywhere but this year and last they have vanished. I first thought it was the bear running them off but now I am beginning to think coyotes. Dont know for sure what has happened to them but they are gone. Turkeys too

Another doe died of lead poisoning last night. It was another hunt like last Wed with me getting in the stand with only 1 hour to hunt but that seems to be working here latley. She came out of the thicket just before dusk and a .270 round to the back of the head dropped her like a sack of potatoes.

Works everytime.

Originally Posted by ncnat

Works everytime.

Don't mess up no meat, If you miss, the dear lives to fight another day. If you hit, it's going down. And in all the years I've been hunting, I've never shot a deer and had it run towards the truck!

Critter,

This is the worst deer seaon of my life! I have hunted and hunted and have no deer in the freezor. I passed up multiple does and a couple of small bucks during black powder season thinking I would have more opps (Chatam county). Sad to say nothing since......... What did I do wrong? I have been out here 5 yrs from Colorado (where you can only harvest one deer a year) and feel I messed up. My partners on the lease al killed deer 3 does and one small buck. Should I start the theory of "if its brown its down"? Any Ideas for this late season?

I'm not stealing critters' thunder but, if you keep a cornpile or are in a good feeeding area you should have deer coming in, but it doesn't take them long to pattern you. Keep multiple stands if possible and alternate between them. Go early and stay late, I don't know how many times I have sat in stand for that 1 more hour and have seen deer even though I thought they would have bedded down by then. Hunt as often as you can and as long as you can. Good luck.

Originally Posted by CrappieKrazy

And in all the years I've been hunting, I've never shot a deer and had it run towards the truck!

CC, I know this sounds unbelievable, but a couple years ago while hunting in Currituck county I shot a big doe that was running. The shot hit a little far back and she kept running like she wasn't even hit. Now, I had walked into the swamp about a half a mile from the truck to hunt. I set still till my cousin came to see what I had shot. I wasn't familiar with the area, but he was because he had hunted there all his life. When he got to my stand we walked to where I had shot the doe and found some stinking greenish blood. We kept finding blood here and there and then lost the trail. He decided we should go back to the truck and call some of his friends who had tracking dogs. he headed straight through the swamp to my truck. After walking about 10 minutes we saw my truck about 300 yards away we went about 250 yards toward the truck and guess what we found? There was the doe I had shot earlier. When she fell her head was pointed in the direction of my truck. If she would made it a few more yards we could have picked her up and put her right in the truck bed. I know this sounds unbelievable, but it really did happen. The odds for something like this must be 1 in 27,000,000,000,000.

Kellog