2022 Deer Pics/Chatter/Excuses

[hunter966]

I’m kind of in the dog house with my family for shooting the buck on Tuesday, and I’ve debated sharing this.
As I said in the post with my buck, I went old school on my east TX hunt with no corn and no camera, so I literally had no idea what was on or around the place.
For a little history, the place I was on is a 400 acre tract that connect to my Mother’s place (200 acres), and we’ve had permission to hunt it for over 25 years. I used to live within a 4 wheeler ride of the place, but when I bought the new place which is 20 miles away, I pretty much quit hunting over there.
My brother and niece only hunt in my Mother’s pasture (literally 100 yards behind her house and within sight of his house) which is at least 3/4 to a mile from where I was hunting, and I set up where I did to keep from messing up their spot. I called my brother last week and specifically asked him if they had any bucks on camera that he wanted me to pass. He only told me about one buck with split g2’s, and Saturday, I passed a buck with a split g2’s which I found out afterwards wasn’t even the same buck he had seen.
Fast forward, I kill my buck on Tuesday morning and send my brother a picture, and he tells me that he has pictures of him and told my niece that he wasn’t old enough and wasn’t a shooter. I wasn’t very nice with my reply and told him that if he thought that buck wasn’t a shooter he needs to quit hunting and take up golf.
My brother took the pictures and helped me load him. He didn’t say anything, but I could tell he was pissed. He told me later that my niece is really pissed too. I told him that he needed to smooth it over because it’s just hunting, and I had done nothing wrong and had even tried to avoid any bucks they were hunting.
My wife wants me to stay off that place to avoid pissing them off, but I’m more inclined to go back and kill a couple more does just to piss them off.
My brother is a lazy hunter and always has been. He pretty much only hunts within sight of his house and wonders why he doesn’t see many deer. I love my niece and want her to be successful, and I’ve offered for several years to set up a two person spot and take her. He has declined the offer. I’ve also offered for a couple years to bring her to OK for youth weekend, and that offer has been declined too.
Am I wrong in this situation? Should I avoid hunting on 600 acres, so he can hunt the 5 acres behind his house?

Keep hunting it!

I don’t have any brothers or sisters but have seen my parents bros. and sisters, one had good ones and the other pretty dang bad ones. You didn’t do anything wrong on purpose or not. Crap, it sounds like he just wants to control what happen within sight of the house. He’ll get glad in the same panties he got mad in.

 

[kirk1978]

Cold, windy, no deer so far...today not looking good.

 

[retrieverman]

Cold, windy, no deer so far...today not looking good.

You must not be living right, because I’ve been getting pictures up there all morning and even had one of my son’s target bucks in the daylight.

 

[Hirschkopf]

The Tavor is an interesting choice and would probably be last on my list of guns to carry to the deer stand, but I think a semi auto “30-30“ is kind of cool and should work great hunting over a feeder. The 6.5 cm should work as good on OK whitetails as it does on Coues deer.
My advice if you‘re going to be walking around is to stay away from property lines as much as possible unless you know who’s hunting around you.
As far as attractant, don’t waste your money. First off, the rut is starting which is one reason camera activity is down, and second, if you have acorns, that’s more than likely where the deer are right now.
If I were in your shoes and kind of coming in blind to what’s really happening on your place due to reduced camera activity, I would scout around and look for trails and scrape lines and set up a climber or ground blind 40-50 away with a good view of a scrape, or I might look for signs in an area with oaks and set up with a view of that area.
In my experience, feeders are good to hunt over in early season and late season but not so much during the rut and when acorns are falling. If you have does coming to your feeders, then I would hunt them even during the rut, because the boys are going to be coming to where the girls are.
I wish you the best of luck on your first hunting adventure in Oklahoma.

Thanks RM for the experienced advice! I've not even gotten the chance to fully explore the property yet. I'm looking forward to a trip with no brush cutting and trash pick-up planned.

 

[kirk1978]

You must not be living right, because I’ve been getting pictures up there all morning and even had one of my son’s target bucks in the daylight.

Can't be my fault! Maybe I have dumb deer and they don't know what they are supposed to be doing.

 

[retrieverman]

Can't be my fault! Maybe I have dumb deer and they don't know what they are supposed to be doing.

 

[kirk1978]

Think you may have solved my problem here!

 

[undeg01]

Hunt the doe, they say. The girls will bring the boys in, they say. Well, I froze my tail off this morning watching 9 doe and only saw one scraggly basket racked buck. Sitting a half mile away in a different stand now, watching 11 doe chow on this food plot. No bucks in sight!

I know I have bucks on this place and not a single one is cruising for chickies. Not a single doe is on alert. Rut just ain’t happenin here yet.

 

[Dorkus]

Hunt the doe, they say. The girls will bring the boys in, they say. Well, I froze my tail off this morning watching 9 doe and only saw one scraggly basket racked buck. Sitting a half mile away in a different stand now, watching 11 doe chow on this food plot. No bucks in sight!

I know I have bucks on this place and not a single one is cruising for chickies. Not a single doe is on alert. Rut just ain’t happenin here yet.

I pulled two cards today from my cameras after duck hunting and saw some bucks running in the pictures. I am not sure if they are chasing does but they were running.

 

[OKRuss]

Hunt the doe, they say. The girls will bring the boys in, they say. Well, I froze my tail off this morning watching 9 doe and only saw one scraggly basket racked buck. Sitting a half mile away in a different stand now, watching 11 doe chow on this food plot. No bucks in sight!

I know I have bucks on this place and not a single one is cruising for chickies. Not a single doe is on alert. Rut just ain’t happenin here yet.

Exact same here in okfuskee County. Did see one fork horn pushing a doe around 1 when having lunch. She wanted no part of it.