deermaster13
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No rain on Tignall\Danburg area. I checked 2 tracts today and that wind we got sure knocked the white oaks down. Ground covered. We have a bumper crop this year.
Haven't been up since opening weekend but plan on going this weekend for one last archery hunt. We hammered the hogs pretty good during the opener, really allowed the deer to move back in. We lost 4 feeder motors to bears between June and opening weekend. All of our feeders are now at least 20ft off the ground. That seems to have stopped the damage. We still have a sow and cub running around lately, cub doesn't seem to be putting on that much weight. Hoping for some cooler weather.
Off Hwy 96, in the Ocmulgee corridorInteresting. Where you located in Wilkes Co?
Off Hwy 96, in the Ocmulgee corridor
That would be Wilkinson county right? Not Wilkes county
Well I made what I thought was a good bow shot on a buck at 60 ft. It landed an inch or two higher than I would have liked but it should have been a solid lung shot on the left side. He ran off with my arrow still in him and I tracked him for about 300 feet before the blood stopped. I never found the arrow and never found any places where it looked like he laid down either. I heard a few rifle shots around me not too long after, so hopefully someone finished him off. I hate to think he went to waste or is wandering around with an arrow in him. If anyone sees a good buck around Metasville Road with an orange illumi-nock on his left side, let me know. Hope you all had better luck then me so far.
How did the week-end gun opening in Wilkes go? I wasn't able to hunt this week- end but was able to hunt the last day of muzzy week on Friday. Was fortunate enough to take a fat doe to put in the freezer. Acorns were falling on Friday but it is extremely dry. Creeks and streams are getting low. I can't make it back down to Danburg until November 2 because of work and I will stay a week for the rut. I pray that we will get some rain by then.
Heard a big 10 point was killed in the River Rd. area. North East of Tignall. Newford Creek Outdoors has a picture of the buck on their facebook page. The buck weighed well over 200 lbs. There are plenty more like him in the woods in Wilkes County.
Dilane hunt this week near Waynesboro. I hope it continues like your report.There was lots of good movement this past weekend. I saw several bucks following does, and we've had some bucks fighting on camera. It looks like the bachelor groups are now broken up, and the bucks are pursuing the ladies to persuade them into estrus. Lots of daytime movement with the cooler weather, unlike years past where a hot Fall would make them basically nocturnal. Hopefully the mild weather will continue, and the mornings/evenings will continue to be full with moving deer. The two I was hunting with both took a buck, and our neighbor across the field came away with one also. All in all, it was a great weekend for hunting - just wish mine had fallen where I could find him!
Dilane hunt this week near Waynesboro. I hope it continues like your report.There was lots of good movement this past weekend. I saw several bucks following does, and we've had some bucks fighting on camera. It looks like the bachelor groups are now broken up, and the bucks are pursuing the ladies to persuade them into estrus. Lots of daytime movement with the cooler weather, unlike years past where a hot Fall would make them basically nocturnal. Hopefully the mild weather will continue, and the mornings/evenings will continue to be full with moving deer. The two I was hunting with both took a buck, and our neighbor across the field came away with one also. All in all, it was a great weekend for hunting - just wish mine had fallen where I could find him!