the woods just seem dead!
#11
RE: the woods just seem dead!
You're not alone. I've spent 15 hours in the stand the last two days and haven't seen a deer. I've seen lots of other animals though. Cats, quail, coons, squirrels, rabbits, hawks, but no deer. Hopefully next weekend.
#12
RE: the woods just seem dead!
Not seeing much here either. I am in Iowa, about a week and a half ago, i was seeing up to 20 deer in one sit... now, nothing. In the past three times I've gone out, ive seen about 5 deer combined.
#13
RE: the woods just seem dead!
Not much moving here either. Had a deer walk directly under my stand this morning but it was just too dark to shoot and I don't want to make a mistake. And that was it for today. Hadn't seen a deer from either stand in over a week. Now this morning the rain is here so I guess we'll see how long this lasts!
#14
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Baytown, Texas
Posts: 415
RE: the woods just seem dead!
Right now, the deer are feeding at night at my leasedue to the full moon. But, we have experienced a similar situation a few years ago where we say nothing moving for about 4 days, and I mean nothing. We found some massive cat tracks and some smaller ones. The local game warden said they were monitoring a big cougar and cub traveling a 30 mile radius and that is why everything was hiding then. They had several reports of sightings, but no problems with the big cat, so they were just following it. He said if the cat wasn't bothering live stock, people or domestic animals that they were going to leave it alone. But, he did say they had to relocate another mother/cub to a remote location a few years back b/c they had killed a new born caf.
#15
RE: the woods just seem dead!
I was wondering if others were experiencing slow movement...I haven't personally been out hunting much lately but I had 3 friends hunting down on our farm the last two days and the last evening I sat two of them in stands that are always good for at least a doe and they had seen nothing...I think maybe setting up closer to bedding and hunting longer in the mornings might be the remedy...
#17
RE: the woods just seem dead!
Same here in MD. Myself and some buddies have been hunting mornings abd evenings, the last 2 days have been absolutely dead. Must be the full moon. I was posting on our team baord and after the hunt yesterday morning I was walking to my truck with one of my hunting buddies at 11AM and low and behold there was a 150 class hammer standing in the middle ofa cut beanfield with a doe. Might be better hunting the middle of the day for the next week,too badI cant take off any more work.
#18
RE: the woods just seem dead!
Don't worry guys i havent really seen a thing either. went out yesterday morning and seen nothing. Went out the night before and seen 1 spike and a doe that just ran threw the area. But i moved my stand to behind my house because theres a huge 13 pointer with double droptines on it so i'll try to get that big guy. Hopefully everything starts moving and everybody gets good activity at there stands. Good luck all