re: So how did y’all do this deer season?

Lots of these



Ended up with this and one doe

Yea I didn't and wouldn't put anything I killed in Texas on here. Kinda not the same as a typical deer season. More of a meat haul. Not much sport in it anymore out there. We went Christmas break and brought home 12 with 5 of them being solid bucks like yours. 2 shot from the window of a truck. All low fence and over populated like everything else out there. And enough AXIS everywhere now they are worse than hogs.

fairly slow season but got a few good ones. 2 does with bow and with rifle 15" 8 point, 16" 6 point that should have been an 8 but no brows at all, and a really nice 17" heavy 9 point. Only saw 2 other legal bucks all season and just a handful of small bucks. Several does but buck sightings were below average for sure.

In some ways a really slow season but a good one. Watched a ton of good 3.5 and 4.5 year old bucks. Only had one 5.5 on the farm this year with any regularity and decided to wait on him. Finally convinced the landower to spend some time in the stand this year. He had never killed anything over a small hill 6. What do you know he managed to connect with him during the 2 day gun hunt. Live weight was 203. Would have scored much better last year but still a great first good buck.


Little smoke decided this is the year to be interested in hunting. It went from me constantly asking if he wanted to come with me last year to him begging me to take him every chance we got to sneak out. Youth season let him tag his second, a little button.


He had a chance at the 5.5 year old but couldn't quite get the crossbow moved fast enough and decided not to take a marginal shot. He also tangled with this little guy a half dozen times but he never would take the last step needed. Watching him from a climbing stand 40 yards away was the highlight of my hunting career at that point. He is officially mad at this deer and is planning on going after him hard next year.

He did manage to connect on this guy on his last hunt of the season. It was his first antlered and first with a crossbow. He is already practicing with a compound hoping to get up to 45# next year so he can use it.



Only deer I killed this year was on a backpacking trip into a national forest in central arkansas. Averaged 10 miles a day from base camp. Managed to get a 5.5 year old 8pt that was smaller than our normal 2.5 year olds and a small doe.



Also managed to win a $4000 blind that is still sitting on a trailer waiting until it dries enough to get it out where it needs to be.

All in all a good season even if totally different then what I expected.

3 total hours in a box stand one afternoon following a limit of ducks in that morning, 1 doe.