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Posted by lsushelly
Denham Springs
Member since Aug 2006
2866 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 7:58 am to
Centreville/ Woodville rut seems to get later every year
Posted by SmokinBurger
Bayou Self
Member since Sep 2021
247 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 8:23 am to
Jeff Davis County
40 degrees
New Savage .270
2 man buddy stand overlooking a creek bottom.

Saw a small spike early this am and a young 8 pt around 8am.
Posted by 257WBY
Member since Feb 2014
5671 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 8:25 am to
Madison Parish
Tripod on lane in CRP
257 WBY
Posted by Huntinguy
Member since Mar 2011
1754 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 9:28 am to
Richland Parish Box on some overgrown pasture and Hardwoods.

Saw a couple of small bucks, looking for a hammer.

6.5 Creedmore
Posted by Red Stick Rambler
Member since Jun 2011
1192 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 10:14 am to
quote:

Centreville/ Woodville rut seems to get later every year


I know the drought stressed the deer population and assume that has something to do with the delayed rut this year... but beyond that nobody I talk to is even seeing deer in this area.
Posted by pdubya76
Sw Ms
Member since Mar 2012
5980 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 10:29 am to
We are seeing very few in NW Amite county.
Posted by Icansee4miles
Trolling the Tickfaw
Member since Jan 2007
29236 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 10:30 am to
Oddly, the antlers on the bucks that have been taken and seen on camera in our area of central MS are the best I’ve seen in more than a dozen years of hunting up there. Some theorize the very wet early Spring had a lot of healthy browse available during antler development. I like to attribute the 2000# of protein and last year’s robust food plots for some of it too.

When I first put out my cameras in mid-September, a lot of the does had their ribs showing. Their acorn and corn diet has since fattened them up, but the number of 150 class deer harvested is like nothing my cousin remembers seeing in the 25 years he’s owned the place.
Posted by calcotron
Member since Nov 2007
8314 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 10:41 am to
Basketball done, I was the only car at the WMA spot on the last Saturday of rifle. Kinda wet and gloomy but that's perfect for me. Climbed up a big oak really slow, at a pinch point I think. New spot, let's go. I can barely see the Duck River, different spot than yesterday a lot farther in. Doe please.
Posted by lsushelly
Denham Springs
Member since Aug 2006
2866 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 11:06 am to
Three of us in the woods and all saw deer this morning. No bucks
Posted by RickAstley
Reno, Nevada
Member since May 2011
2004 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 11:20 am to
I bailed out at 9 to take my son to a birthday party (I'm thankful my kids' birthdays are not during the rut). Didn't see anything in the woods. A fresh deer road kill was on the side of the road on my way back home. Those deer waving at me from the side of the road as I got out of city limits this morning didn't get the last laugh afterall.

I'm going to try again tonight, but I've been absolutely skunked lately. I'm pretty sure the deer herd has moved to town this season to avoid the hunters.
Posted by AFtigerFan
Ohio
Member since Feb 2008
3271 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 1:16 pm to
Area 2 - Black Bayou NWR
Makeshift ground blind
Mathews V3X

Set up on a rub and scrape line in some really thick stuff along a narrow creek. Plenty of fresh tracks. Hoping to see something.

Right after getting set up, 2 guys in Orange walked through loud as can be talking and coughing. I’m pretty deep in, but it is what it is. No problem with squirrel or duck hunters. But could these 2 at least be less noisy? It wasn’t a surprise they were empty handed.
This post was edited on 1/6/24 at 1:17 pm
Posted by calcotron
Member since Nov 2007
8314 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 1:50 pm to
I could use some company to push some deer up and back toward me. No movement. I still haven't solved post rut. Still hours to go though.
Posted by rattlebucket
SELA
Member since Feb 2009
11498 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 1:57 pm to
So would you say to deer hunting never gonna give you up?
Posted by TreyE663
Walker
Member since Nov 2007
828 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 2:53 pm to
Area 4
52 degrees wind NNW @ 7
Changed stands from this morning, back to ladder stand in the pines looking down a clear cut with a feeder

Been skunked lately, pics have slowed way down on camera, and haven’t seen a buck in awhile
Posted by SCwTiger
armpit of 'merica
Member since Aug 2014
5857 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 3:05 pm to
quote:

Tensas 39 and still Got my old man’s Featherweight Classic 270 (he passed in October) WRP looking for the hookin bull.


Didn’t get the hookin bull but a nice tall 9 pernt fell to the 270 this morning. Imgur won’t load the photo but I’ll keep trying.
Back out with the Canon 35mm this evening.
Posted by bnb9433
Member since Jan 2015
13752 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 3:34 pm to
Perry County AL
10 mph W
270

Saw a big 4pt walking in and doe down
Posted by Slickback
Deer Stand
Member since Mar 2008
27687 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 3:42 pm to
Pike County Ms
49
7mm Mag
Powerline between a thicket and plantation pine


SLOW
It’s dead out here. Saw 2 does this morning but it’s been quiet and not much on cameras either
Posted by RickAstley
Reno, Nevada
Member since May 2011
2004 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 4:10 pm to
Never gonna give it up unless freezer is full or wife starts cracking down. She's been patient with me this season and on kid watching duty.

I'm in a shooting house on a food plot that my 3-year old picked out as my hunting spot this afternoon. If I get a deer on the ground, I'll just start going to him for all my deer hunting decisions.

The dead deer on the side of the road from earlier was gone when I passed by there again. Either someone picked it up or the deer woke up from the dead. Seeing a zombie deer tonight would be my luck.
Posted by bradygolf98
Member since Jan 2021
1405 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 4:41 pm to
Unfortunately don’t think I’ll be getting much neck meat from this one. Watched him for about 10 minutes mosey through some thickets. Finally he stepped into an opening and was about to leave but stopped facing away from me.

Posted by bbvdd
Memphis, TN
Member since Jun 2009
25078 posts
Posted on 1/6/24 at 4:56 pm to
Tippah County MS
43 and no wind or very little at least.
5.56 AR with thermal
Box blind

I’m on predator patrol tonight.

Had a deer run out of the plot when I was driving in a couple of hours ago. Change batteries in a couple of cameras and looked for arrow head for a while before making my way to the box.
This post was edited on 1/6/24 at 4:58 pm
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