Thanksgiving evening turned out to be a good hunt for me.... I got this 7 point with a 17" spread right at the end of legal shooting light. He was the only deer I saw that night, but he is the best buck I've seen all season. This guy was working the roads with his nose... looking for a hot doe, I guess. When I started the tracking job it was really dark, because I gave him a half hour before starting to track. Could not find a blood trail, but I found him by his smell!! His tarsal glands were really black and smelly... this guy was definitely in rut.
The hunting has been hard since the acorns started dropping... the corn is piling up around all my feeders.
I went from getting hundreds of game cam pictures in a week to 20 pictures in a week when the acorns started dropping.
