Sunday, June 19, 2022: HAPPY FATHER’S DAY 'TOO'ville!
Officially kicking off this year’s hunt journal of mine, which is my fourth consecutive year in a row of sharing my hunting season with you all.
Basically, anything to do with my deer hunting will most likely be documented right here going forward for the remainder of the year.
For those that don’t know, I have been maintaining a deer feed station area at the back corner of our property ever since 2019.
This year, I built two feed troughs and placed them at the feed station during the first week of May.
Three weeks ago, the very first deer fed out of a feed trough for the very first time. Today, there are approximately a half a dozen of deer that feed out of those troughs regularly, daily and I expect to see even more deer feed out them regularly throughout the remainder of the year.
I plan to phase out the whole corn as food for the deer this year. I wish to feed them better quality food with higher nutrition value, so, it will be a trial-and-error type of thing this summer until I find a food product that the deer like that’ll be much healthier for them.
I just purchased two new replacement trail cameras that will be placed later this coming week.
I currently have seven trail cameras for the entire year. Occasionally, I may move one or two of them throughout the hunting season, but for the most part, each one generally stays in place all year long.
3-@HOME FEED STATION; 1-@HOME WESTERN STAND; 1-@HOME DRIVEWAY; 1-@OTHER FARM FEED STATION; 1-@OTHER FARM CORN FIELD
With regards to the number of deer nearest to my home today, the herd size has increased slightly this year, which is consistent to what I have observed over the past three years.
Many of the same bucks from the previous years have returned once again this year, such as; ‘THUNDER’, ‘VEGAS’,‘SHYBUC’, ‘JR’, ‘NINER’, and ‘LEFTY’. There are many others that I’m currently trying figure who they are and if they’re new or not. I should have a much better idea of what I actually have in the area on a regular basis by the end of July.
To the best of my knowledge, this is ‘THUNDER’s fourth year living within the immediate area, ‘SHYBUC’s third, ‘LEFTY’s third, ‘VEGAS’s second, ‘JR’s second and ‘NINER’s second year.
TC captures of the mentioned bucks just over the past 24hrs. I expect the new TC to provide much better quality images from that location next week.
To date, from what I have seen just over the past two weeks, there are four new fawns within the immediate area however, I do suspect that there are even more because of the numbers of does within the immediate area have also increased since last year. At least one set of twins and two singles so far that I have actually seen.
At the other farm, I placed an automatic programmable corn feeder back in late April of this year, which is something new for that property. The number of deer on that property appears to be quite healthy in size as well.
There’s a buck that visits that feeder regularly with a unique rack coming in. Still not sure though if he’s a returning buck or possibly a new one.
Last season was the first time in over a decade I hunted that property in the early archery season, and I harvested two good size antlerless deer last October.
This year, I’ll most likely do the same for that property, hunting the early archery season, then transfer over to gun and muzzy, hunting from out of the blind, intending to harvest two good size deer from out of that county this year.
With regards to what buck I hope to be chasing and/or targeting for the new season, ‘THUNDER’ and ‘VEGAS’ will most likely be at the top of the list, but that may change as the season progresses, such as any roamer that makes their presence known.
I'll share as often as time permits of any relevant content or information of any of my hunts with you all, as usual.
Please feel free to jump in anytime throughout my journal and I totally look forward to following along anyone else’s that decide to do much the same this year.
I truly wish all members tremendous success this season! May you all return home safely after each hunt.
Best of luck to you!
Officially kicking off this year’s hunt journal of mine, which is my fourth consecutive year in a row of sharing my hunting season with you all.
Basically, anything to do with my deer hunting will most likely be documented right here going forward for the remainder of the year.
For those that don’t know, I have been maintaining a deer feed station area at the back corner of our property ever since 2019.
This year, I built two feed troughs and placed them at the feed station during the first week of May.
Three weeks ago, the very first deer fed out of a feed trough for the very first time. Today, there are approximately a half a dozen of deer that feed out of those troughs regularly, daily and I expect to see even more deer feed out them regularly throughout the remainder of the year.
I plan to phase out the whole corn as food for the deer this year. I wish to feed them better quality food with higher nutrition value, so, it will be a trial-and-error type of thing this summer until I find a food product that the deer like that’ll be much healthier for them.
I just purchased two new replacement trail cameras that will be placed later this coming week.
I currently have seven trail cameras for the entire year. Occasionally, I may move one or two of them throughout the hunting season, but for the most part, each one generally stays in place all year long.
3-@HOME FEED STATION; 1-@HOME WESTERN STAND; 1-@HOME DRIVEWAY; 1-@OTHER FARM FEED STATION; 1-@OTHER FARM CORN FIELD
With regards to the number of deer nearest to my home today, the herd size has increased slightly this year, which is consistent to what I have observed over the past three years.
Many of the same bucks from the previous years have returned once again this year, such as; ‘THUNDER’, ‘VEGAS’,‘SHYBUC’, ‘JR’, ‘NINER’, and ‘LEFTY’. There are many others that I’m currently trying figure who they are and if they’re new or not. I should have a much better idea of what I actually have in the area on a regular basis by the end of July.
To the best of my knowledge, this is ‘THUNDER’s fourth year living within the immediate area, ‘SHYBUC’s third, ‘LEFTY’s third, ‘VEGAS’s second, ‘JR’s second and ‘NINER’s second year.
TC captures of the mentioned bucks just over the past 24hrs. I expect the new TC to provide much better quality images from that location next week.
To date, from what I have seen just over the past two weeks, there are four new fawns within the immediate area however, I do suspect that there are even more because of the numbers of does within the immediate area have also increased since last year. At least one set of twins and two singles so far that I have actually seen.
At the other farm, I placed an automatic programmable corn feeder back in late April of this year, which is something new for that property. The number of deer on that property appears to be quite healthy in size as well.
There’s a buck that visits that feeder regularly with a unique rack coming in. Still not sure though if he’s a returning buck or possibly a new one.
Last season was the first time in over a decade I hunted that property in the early archery season, and I harvested two good size antlerless deer last October.
This year, I’ll most likely do the same for that property, hunting the early archery season, then transfer over to gun and muzzy, hunting from out of the blind, intending to harvest two good size deer from out of that county this year.
With regards to what buck I hope to be chasing and/or targeting for the new season, ‘THUNDER’ and ‘VEGAS’ will most likely be at the top of the list, but that may change as the season progresses, such as any roamer that makes their presence known.
I'll share as often as time permits of any relevant content or information of any of my hunts with you all, as usual.
Please feel free to jump in anytime throughout my journal and I totally look forward to following along anyone else’s that decide to do much the same this year.
I truly wish all members tremendous success this season! May you all return home safely after each hunt.
Best of luck to you!
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