Great buck!!!

I agree with the corn bit. I live in ND and it was a very unproductive season for many because the deer just wouldn't leave the corn.

Nate

wisconsin does still have alot of standing corn and i hunt by a corn field but i cant hunt it so i think thats where they are.

My group was pheasant hunting in SW Kansas and only about half the crops had been combined by opening day then it rained the next several days. We usually see some huge bucks but this year only a few does. There was plenty of buck sign but the big guys stay in the corn until it's all combined according to my cousin.
We saw ;ots of pheasants too but they mostly flushed out of range after the opener. Beekeeper and I was the only 2 out of six guys to get 4 roosters.
We saw thousands of geese and ducks feeding in the cut corn fields. Too bad we Left the decoys at home.
On the trip home we saw a giant whitetail in a beanfield in the suburbs of Wichita.

Yeh, the deer have all been hiding in the corn around where I hunt. I have already shot my buck, but my buddies have all been having less luck. Really you just got to be in the right place at the right time. They have to drink and bed sometime! Just find there water holes and their bed trails. I did that and it really paid off with a HUGE 8-pointer. First day I hunted the stand too. One thing that really helps is to put up a good trail camera and find when the deer are in a given place. Place your stand accordingly. For example, I noticed that bucks seemed to travel one of our trials just before sunrise. I reasoned that they wouldn't be in a hurry, so I followed the trail a mile or so and set the camera there. Sure enough, there were several deer that passed along that particular setup around first light. I then put my stand another 50 yards downwind of the trail where I saw some scrapes and rubs. The first morning I huntedthe stand, I arrowed a nice 21" wide 8-pointer. You just have to know how they get to the field and intercept them. They will not stay in the field for ever. You just have to know when they arn't. It's really not that hard, but it takes time and lots of scouting. Good luck and good hinting to all yaalll.

I had to tell Raymond-He did the same thing for me last year! TW

Alberta is no better. way too warm and only a skiff of snow in places. Got a 4pt on the weekend and saw a couple others that were on private property but in the 150+ I am holding out for, or I shoot a doe. If I cant have huge rack then I want good meat. The 4pt was 265#, well bled, so real nice size. This week is going to be the active week because I saw so many on the weekend. Lots of movement everywhere. Cant wait for Friday. Good luck everyone.

Although the rut in Ohio is winding down, with most does bred, there are sme signs that the secondary rut is still on. Corn is a favorite food of deer in the buckeye state, but it causes few problems for me. Deer in the areas I hunt feed heavily on crabapples(of which there is a very good crop, thereof)and acorns. I was seeing a huge 12 point chasing does over the last two weeks, but he was in an area that is off limits to hunters andnow he is not showing himself. (i came close to hitting him with my truck). There was a youth gun hunt last weekend and the general small game season is in full swing. I have seen some does out feeding in the fields in the late afternoon and that tells me that the rut is just about over in Ohio

opening day in wisconsin most of the bucks taken have been said to be following doe's i didn't see anything bucks or does where i usually see one or the other so wisconsin's rut hit a little later 2nd rut should be pretty good seeing how many of the does are not getting bred due to hunting pressure

Slow here in Ark.(weather ?).
Did shoot a BIG bobcat last Sat. though !

Here in Oklahoma, seems the seeking/chasing phase is in full force as of last Saturday. Where I hunt, we have been seeing good numbers of deer and I took my largest buck to date, a nice 9 point a week ago. He came in on a string at a trot and payed me no attention whatsoever. Another guy that hunts across the hill from me got a large 8 point about 30 min after I did. I can't wait to see what this weekend has in store! Hopefully all will go well, my father-in-law will be joining me this weekend for a morning hunt. He's had some tough luck but I've got a feeling that will change. Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving and a great hunting season!

The standing crops actually helped my group this year. The property we hunt in West Ky had most of the acorn producing twigs and tops ripped down by the ice storm of spring 09. The resulting acorn crop was pitiful. Luckily,our property was in soybeans this year which you can see to shoot over. It was like hunting a huge green field. Here in Alabama the bucks are still in bachelor groups. I got a nice 8 with my rifle Monday. He was with another 8, two 6's and a spike. Our rut should begin to heat up around Christmas and run all the way through the Jan 31 close of gun season.

"The corn and the lack of deer were major concerns for the WI rut and opening weekend of the gun season. I think the DNR grossly overestimated the # deer in the woods. Too many T Zone hunts." Coundn't say it better stormn. The DNR in WI defently overestimated the deer numbers I think we were down 33,000 deer in the opening weekend. I think we need another Earn A Buck year so we can take out every deer possible haha.

Crops are slowly comming out in MN. Hoping for a productive post rut for muzzleloaders and bow hunters. Nothing beets baging a wooly battle scarred buck!

A true buck with mass!

I live in Wisconsin but hunted Illinois earlier in November. The farmers we talked to said 90 percent of the corn was still up and at night when we went into town there was a deer in every isle of the cornfields. Same here in wisconsin I hunt right next to a cornfield and they just won't leave it.

I live in Wyoming County W.V. and I hunted hard all week last week & seen no sign of bucks chasing does. As a matter of a fact on all my trail-cams I seen several large bucks running together. If anyone else in my area has any news please submit it. I would like to hear some good news.