A Season Long Poll

Mike Belt · Dec 4, 2014

This year throughout Tn there seem to be more bigger, older bucks being killed. Another thing that sticks out is there seems to be more mid day movement by this older population of bucks by eyewitness and camera account. So....just for grins let's try something. This is strictly for the months of November and December and it doesn't necessarily depend on a kill. A sighting or picture will suffice. For those who have a recollection of either, retro any responses back to November 1. List all bucks seen from 10:00 AM through 3:00 PM 3.5+ or those that would score 125"+ by date and time denoting whether by eyesight or camera. Ex:

1.November 5
11:30 AM
140" 8 pointer
Camera

2.November 27
10:30 AM
135" 8 pointer
Eyewitness

Please omit stories about the encounters and just supply the information requested. This may not be a long list meeting the criteria but it'll be interesting to see when our bigger deer are being killed.

infoman jr. · Dec 4, 2014

catman529 · Dec 4, 2014

I only got a few seconds of video but I had a 3.5 year old at least 115" walk by at 2 pm on November 19.

bowriter · Dec 4, 2014

Before we had cameras on every tree, we knew there was a lot of midday movement by mature bucks. In fact, I wrote an article for D&DH in the 80's about that very thing. I believe it was titled, "Between 10 and two".

Mike Belt · Dec 4, 2014

So you're the one responsible for all this mid day movement. You're costing me a lot of sleep, lol.

huntintn · Dec 4, 2014

bowriter said:
Before we had cameras on every tree, we knew there was a lot of midday movement by mature bucks. In fact, I wrote an article for D&DH in the 80's about that very thing. I believe it was titled, "Between 10 and two".

Thank You, I remember reading that story, Killed my first buck 3 days later at 11:45.