How was your Deer season south of Natchez?

I appreciate it. Just looking to see how to improve.

The Deer never came out to the food plots, until this weekend. No movement in the woods. Seemed like they had plenty to eat close to their beds.

Rut was never seen, but could tell it was over last weekend by what I saw

Worse season in a long time. Got two does early and didn’t see a rack buck all season. We have primarily hard woods near Woodville. Huge acorn crop killed us. Corn rotted on the ground and food plots look great because they had zero deer in them

I shot a couple of does. I usually hunt feed trees early season but it was hard to find one that was tore up since they had so many to choose from. Saw a lot of deer on funnels, mostly out of bow range.

Doe #2 that I shot last saturday with my 444 would have been a chip shot with my bow.

I blame the acorns too. Now that it is cold and the acorns are sour the deer seem to be everywhere.

Same in Southeast MS. Plenty of acorns and no deer on the foodplots or pineywoods. Shot both of my deer in the hardwood SMZs near the creek.

Quitman Miss bad year first very hpt, acorns, then after opening weekend very nocturnal - weve been on DMAP for a few years and the more does we shoot the more we see and more bucks but at night - this year we shot half of the last three years - hogs almost disappeared no agriculture just trees around us and there was a lot of logging but still seeing plenty at night -Season should be open longer so cold weather gets them moving

Had deer consistently on plots/feeders until mid November (assuming white oaks started dropping then). Very scattered sightings and pictures rest of season on private lands. As of Fri January 30th deer were still eating acorns. Had 2 does come in on me sniffing through the leaves and crunching on acorns 20’ from me while I was sitting on a hillside.

Next season is setting up to be a good season for plots/feeder cause no way they’ll have acorns like this past season for a while. Lots of bucks made it this season that will have another year of growth also. I predict an above average season for everyone next year.

Public lands I had a few more sightings than I usually do and let a couple legal bucks waiting on something older. I did kill one buck on public early December that was grunting and chasing a doe with another buck.

My oldest son ended the season with 2 beautiful bucks and a doe. My youngest mistakenly let a mature (3.5yr or older) walk that our neighbor killed and missed a decent buck with his crossbow but did take 1 doe. Wife missed a decent buck a week ago and he made it this season (just had pics come in from him) and he’ll be a stud next season! I killed one 2.5yr old 8pt on public, one 3.5yr old 8pt and one 3.5yr old 4pt on private.

Overall just my family of 4 and couple friends the boys brought we killed 5 bucks and 5 does.

Next season a lot of big bucks are going to hit the dirt. Get ready!

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Very basic for us. Way too many nocturnal and Acorns.

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Closer to the LA state line south of woodville - same. LOTS of acorns. Which means I would have to actually move around and hunt. I didn't have a ton of time and I've never been known to do that anyway.

I did see a lot of turkeys - must have been a bumper hatch 2 years ago. Excited for that. Youth is only 4.5 weeks, full season 5.5 weeks away. Gotta do some listening in the next few weeks.