DCarter001
Senior Member
Appling/Jeff Davis Counties:
After speaking with lots of folks this weekend at the Piney Bluff Festival in Appling County, I had some idea the rut MAY have kicked off in our area. This morning removed all doubt. While getting packed up to head home from my weekend hunt, I stopped to speak with my uncles on our hunting land. While standing by the truck at 0915 we watched a doe trot across a hay field and into a small wood lot. I grabbed for my binoculars, because my gun was in a case at home. She disappeared and I put my binoculars away. When I looked back up, here came a buck, nose down, step for step in her tracks. He never looked up and never slowed down. He appeared to be a 6 or 8 point, could not tell from that distance. No gun = no deer.
After speaking with lots of folks this weekend at the Piney Bluff Festival in Appling County, I had some idea the rut MAY have kicked off in our area. This morning removed all doubt. While getting packed up to head home from my weekend hunt, I stopped to speak with my uncles on our hunting land. While standing by the truck at 0915 we watched a doe trot across a hay field and into a small wood lot. I grabbed for my binoculars, because my gun was in a case at home. She disappeared and I put my binoculars away. When I looked back up, here came a buck, nose down, step for step in her tracks. He never looked up and never slowed down. He appeared to be a 6 or 8 point, could not tell from that distance. No gun = no deer.
