Post by subzero350 on Jan 15, 2013 4:27:23 GMT -5
At least where we hunt in Steuben Co.
On the 2nd to last day of the special late antlerless season, my dad had a pack of 8 deer walk out of the swamp in front of him. 2 were does and the rest were bucks. He said two bucks were 8+ pointers, two were 6's, and the other two were either 2 or 4 pointers - couldn't really tell because of the distance and cover. They were traveling in a group. He didn't really have a shot at the does but said he wouldn't have taken it anyway because he didn't want to chance hitting one of the bucks in the group.
We hunt a property that is across a gravel one-lane road from a small lake and most of the propery is swap and woods (the road goes around the lake). The first weekend of the late antlerless season we saw a pack of 14 does standing in the cornfield as we drove in for an afternoon hunt. The last day we saw one of the 8 pointers with a group of 8 does and one of the 6 pointers chasing another doe thru the group in one of the adjacent fields.
Doesn't look like EHD hit our area hard at all and things are looking good for next year!
On the 2nd to last day of the special late antlerless season, my dad had a pack of 8 deer walk out of the swamp in front of him. 2 were does and the rest were bucks. He said two bucks were 8+ pointers, two were 6's, and the other two were either 2 or 4 pointers - couldn't really tell because of the distance and cover. They were traveling in a group. He didn't really have a shot at the does but said he wouldn't have taken it anyway because he didn't want to chance hitting one of the bucks in the group.
We hunt a property that is across a gravel one-lane road from a small lake and most of the propery is swap and woods (the road goes around the lake). The first weekend of the late antlerless season we saw a pack of 14 does standing in the cornfield as we drove in for an afternoon hunt. The last day we saw one of the 8 pointers with a group of 8 does and one of the 6 pointers chasing another doe thru the group in one of the adjacent fields.
Doesn't look like EHD hit our area hard at all and things are looking good for next year!
