2008-09 Deer Season

[kybadcat36]

It's starting to look as if deer season is going to a big Boom! With the normal tempetures this summer and adequate rainfall crop mast will be great and no disease should be around. After last summer the deer should be all giddy this summer and into the fall. Time to start thinking about planting some food plots, tightening in those bow sights, and spend a evening just driving and viewing. Soon it will be mid August and the food plots will be up, deering roaming through, and scouting cameras catching all the action to begin patterning those velvet bucks for a season opener in the bow stand. Maybe I'm starting to get a little warm fuzzy feeling too.

[EKY.MTN.HUNTER]

"After last summer the deer should be all giddy this summer and into the fall."

I like your optimisim.

[Shelbyhunter]

Two words.... Cabin Fever!

[StaleyEMT]

Suffering from tenderloin withdrawals.....:eek:

[shaman]

I'm cautiously waiting to see how the oaks do, before I get giddy. Around here, the white oak acorns really control things. When they go bust, the season seems to go bust.

Here in the Trans-Bluegrass, the 2007 drought was pretty severe. It may make the red oaks unproductive this season. Also, the cicadas hit our neck of the woods in June. They were not all that dense-- not like I've seen them in the past. However, they can do a number on the trees. In short order we'll see how much new growth was affected, as the eggs hatch and the tips of the trees die and start to fall off.

At this point, I'm seeing good sign. However, mid-summer browse is not a reliable indicator for me. If the acorns fail, the deer are sparse come Fall.

[huntindawoods]

I have saw a few nice deer this summer, infact I saw a nice 8 in the neighbors field that joins my property. This buck wasn't 150yds from my field out browsing and grazing with a small buck late Thursday evening around 7:30-8:00. Been thinking about sowing a food plot in the back of my field next to the woods, now I know I'm going to sow a plot that might get the ol' boy grazing in the back of my field where is away from the road and might be able to keep him on my property at least for the early part of bow season.

[nicbuc]

I'm fired up..been seeing alot of deer in my area of VA and got invited this week to participate in an urban hunt in a neighborhood close to our hunt club. The game commission has issued a permit from SEPT to March. This will allow me to hunt before bow season and after general firearms. I think it will be fun and my 10 year old son will have a better chance to get one with his bow.