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<blockquote data-quote="hogslayer" data-source="post: 310491" data-attributes="member: 1263"><p>I hunt our land in central 3A3 and I've been in my blind every weekend since the first weekend of October and I have been confused as hell at what I've been seeing the past few weeks. We have a lot of deer in our area and every time I've sat I've never seen less than 3 deer. There was very little pre rut activity in late October. By opening weekend you did see some bucks mixed with does but no rutting activity. Second weekend I seen some smaller bucks chasing a little but the big ones were not. The monster was finally showing himself in daylight though. I was very surprised that the bucks were still grouped up second weekend and were not fighting or acting territorial whatsoever. One night I had 6 bucks of many age classes all just hanging out together and not paying any attention to the does. By the third week I had some rutting action on my cameras mid week. Last weekend one of the older dominant bucks pushed out all of the others and had about a half dozen does all to himself but he paid little attention to them and they did not seem to even be in estrus. That big guy had his nose to the ground everywhere he went but would walk right past does and not pay attention to them. All the other bucks must have had does locked down somewhere as they were all MIA and there wasn't much movement. I'm starting to think that we just have an overpopulation of does in the area as many of the does are very small and they had very late fawns this year. It's frustrating when you have a dozen does and fawns in front of the blind eating and the big buck is a hundred yards away and doesn't even pay attention to them when it is supposed to be peak rut. The only benefit is that those small late does might get hot in a week or two and we might have a second rut. I'm hoping this weekend goes better. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that has noticed oddities this year. Looks like 2020 is affecting everything!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hogslayer, post: 310491, member: 1263"] I hunt our land in central 3A3 and I've been in my blind every weekend since the first weekend of October and I have been confused as hell at what I've been seeing the past few weeks. We have a lot of deer in our area and every time I've sat I've never seen less than 3 deer. There was very little pre rut activity in late October. By opening weekend you did see some bucks mixed with does but no rutting activity. Second weekend I seen some smaller bucks chasing a little but the big ones were not. The monster was finally showing himself in daylight though. I was very surprised that the bucks were still grouped up second weekend and were not fighting or acting territorial whatsoever. One night I had 6 bucks of many age classes all just hanging out together and not paying any attention to the does. By the third week I had some rutting action on my cameras mid week. Last weekend one of the older dominant bucks pushed out all of the others and had about a half dozen does all to himself but he paid little attention to them and they did not seem to even be in estrus. That big guy had his nose to the ground everywhere he went but would walk right past does and not pay attention to them. All the other bucks must have had does locked down somewhere as they were all MIA and there wasn't much movement. I'm starting to think that we just have an overpopulation of does in the area as many of the does are very small and they had very late fawns this year. It's frustrating when you have a dozen does and fawns in front of the blind eating and the big buck is a hundred yards away and doesn't even pay attention to them when it is supposed to be peak rut. The only benefit is that those small late does might get hot in a week or two and we might have a second rut. I'm hoping this weekend goes better. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that has noticed oddities this year. Looks like 2020 is affecting everything! [/QUOTE]
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