2024 Deer Season

[Longwalker]

Hi Longwalker,
Great rifle setup! I just just got one in .308, but in the plain black receiver. Wood is great, though. Quick question… where did you get your scope mount? Looks like a rail, which is perfect.

Thanks, good shooting!

Hmmm plain black receiver? Sure yours isn’t a Blaser? Anyway, my Krieghoff rifle was purchased used, and the scope and mount came with it. I’m very happy with the set up though. Recknagel/ EAW turn-in style pivot mount and Swarovski rail without rings. Completely reliable and repeatable. That type of mount can be purchased on line at Optics Trade EU in Slovenia. They are a good full service mail order outfit that I’ve bought mounts from several times.

 

[AustinL]

Has that hog got any Russian genes?

I suppose it’s possible. Really hard to say with these Texas hogs

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

Pretty cool

 

[MD Driver]

Hmmm plain black receiver? Sure yours isn’t a Blaser? Anyway, my Krieghoff rifle was purchased used, and the scope and mount came with it. I’m very happy with the set up though. Recknagel/ EAW turn-in style pivot mount and Swarovski rail without rings. Completely reliable and repeatable. That type of mount can be purchased on line at Optics Trade EU in Slovenia. They are a good full service mail order outfit that I’ve bought mounts from several times.

Thanks so much, that really helps!

 

[Bandera]

Our property is covered up with Does all the does have yearlings or spotted fawns with them. 3 of us hunt the 100 acres around the shooting range. Last night I shot a doe she was about 90 pounds. Using a suppressed 308.
The one I shot took off. The others stood there looking around and then decided to beat feet out of there.
Our rut kicks in the last week in Jan. So just waiting for the bucks to get active.

 

[Red Leg]

Our property is covered up with Does all the does have yearlings or spotted fawns with them. 3 of us hunt the 100 acres around the shooting range. Last night I shot a doe she was about 90 pounds. Using a suppressed 308.
The one I shot took off. The others stood there looking around and then decided to beat feet out of there.
Our rut kicks in the last week in Jan. So just waiting for the bucks to get active.

Last week in Jan?!? That is really late. I have not hunted Northern Alabama but have hunted central Georgia some, and North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina a lot and the rut always kicked in somewhere around Veteran's Day. That has been my experience here on our place in Central Texas and in Oklahoma as well.

 

[WAB]

Last week in Jan?!? That is really late. I have not hunted Northern Alabama but have hunted central Georgia some, and North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina a lot and the rut always kicked in somewhere around Veteran's Day. That has been my experience here on our place in Central Texas and in Oklahoma as well.

We have two ruts, likely due to the different places our deer were brought in from, late December, and late January/early February.

 

[Red Leg]

We have two ruts, likely due to the different places our deer were brought in from, late December, and late January/early February.

That is fascinating. The only place that I have hunted that broke the mid-November rule was South coastal Texas which has a late rut as well. We do often get a secondary much smaller rut in December/January where does not bred in November come back into estrous.

 

[Altitude sickness]

I’ve hunted the Black Belt in Alabama and they had a January rut.


My Son in Law came over to my place to shoot a late doe and shot 2 bucks this morning. The first smaller one was hot on the trail of a doe. Then after shooting him and while giving him time. The second and larger buck came through bird dogging the trail. So obviously this was a doe that came into heat 30 days after the first estrus and not getting bred.

 

[B0MBOY]

A really good, elbeit cold, deer season. Filled all my deer tags, killed 3 deer in 5 days all using my 375 h&h. I was absolutely exhausted after that hiking and dragging in temps ranging from 1 to 20 degrees fahrenheit.

Morning of Day 5 This monster poked his head out from behind a very big fallen log, and he refused to show me any more of him than his head and the top half of his neck. So I took the neck shot he gave me. Biggest buck I’ve ever killed.

He was definitely a hell of a fighter, he has 2 broken points and a ton of scarring on the top of his head.

 

[rafter3]

Shot these 2 bucks in South Texas, both free range in Maverick County. Gotta love the brush country!!

 

[Zinz]

free range in Maverick County.

Wow!! Awesome bucks. I’ve hunted Maverick and Zavala Counties for decades…incredible free range bucks down there.

Congratulations!

Ed Z

 

[rafter3]

Wow!! Awesome bucks. I’ve hunted Maverick and Zavala Counties for decades…incredible free range bucks down there.

Congratulations!

Ed Z

Thank you sir, some of the best dirt to grow deer in Texas!!

 

[Zinz]

Thank you sir, some of the best dirt to grow deer in Texas!!

No doubt about it.

You got the best of both worlds, a tall rack with kickers and a wide one. That first buck has a head on him like a steer… what a brute.

 

[HankBuck]

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A really good, elbeit cold, deer season. Filled all my deer tags, killed 3 deer in 5 days all using my 375 h&h. I was absolutely exhausted after that hiking and dragging in temps ranging from 1 to 20 degrees fahrenheit.

Morning of Day 5 This monster poked his head out from behind a very big fallen log, and he refused to show me any more of him than his head and the top half of his neck. So I took the neck shot he gave me. Biggest buck I’ve ever killed.

He was definitely a hell of a fighter, he has 2 broken points and a ton of scarring on the top of his head.

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@BOMBOY - CONGRATULATIONS on your biggest buck, looks like a nice 3 or 4 year old buck. Obviously you handle your .375 H&H well and are very comfortable with it.

 

[HankBuck]

Shot these 2 bucks in South Texas, both free range in Maverick County. Gotta love the brush country!!View attachment 651565View attachment 651566

@rafter3 - wow, one is WIDE plus tall tine length and the other is MASS plus good tine length….guess I gotta move to Texas !

 

[Bandera]

I suppose it’s possible. Really hard to say with these Texas hogs

I was talking with a wildlife biologist about hogs. He said it takes a couple of generations (years) for hogs that have escaped to loose any spotting or light colors in there hide. They will turn reddish dark brown and black and develop the tusks.

 

[WyoBull]

That is a very nice, heavy old buck! Congratulations to your son.

 

[Smull1010]

Central Texas Buck

 

[RR 314]

I was talking with a wildlife biologist about hogs. He said it takes a couple of generations (years) for hogs that have escaped to loose any spotting or light colors in there hide. They will turn reddish dark brown and black and develop the tusks.

Man, we have had our ranch for over 20 years. No domestic pigs anywhere around us. We have sounders of pigs, that other than their tail straightening and tusks, look like domestic Hampshire pigs. While they get feral characteristics within a generation or two, I don’t think these will ever lose their markings. Granted, we have black/solid colored hogs as well, but plenty retain Hampshire characteristics. Lots of other random colored pigs too.