FishinsMyLife
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For the first month of the SC deer season, it's bucks only. I honestly didn't expect a good buck to step out with the weather as hot as it has been recently, but apparently the lack of hunting pressure (the season started the 15th) has left the deer unworried about hunters. I got into my stand 10 minutes before 7:00 and saw the first deer at 6:56. It was a fawn, and 10 minutes later, its momma came out. They fed around some, and after a while, a group of 5 does came out. After a while, all of these deer move off. For 10 minutes I saw nothing, but then the group of does came back. They fed around for a while, but I started to watch two does 100 yards off to the other side. These two worked their way into a cotton field, and I turned my attention back to what I thought was the group of does. I looked through my scope (I forgot the binoculars #-o ) and saw that it was a group of three 8 points and a 3 or 4 point. A smaller 8 and the 3 or 4 point left, leaving 2 deer in the open. I picked the bigger of the two and shot it. It was the biggest relief when that deer dropped where it was standing. It turns out this deer was a 9 point with what might have been another kicker point at the base of his antler if he had shed his velvet.
After an hour of watching deer, I killed that buck 10 minutes before sundown. My buddies in two other stands on the same property saw 2 does and what might have been a buck (big body, too dark to tell/shoot) put together. The difference was they were hunting cotton fields and I was hunting a shooting lane cut into the woods. I saw 2 fawns, 8 does, and 5 bucks. That is more deer than I saw all last deer season :lol:
After an hour of watching deer, I killed that buck 10 minutes before sundown. My buddies in two other stands on the same property saw 2 does and what might have been a buck (big body, too dark to tell/shoot) put together. The difference was they were hunting cotton fields and I was hunting a shooting lane cut into the woods. I saw 2 fawns, 8 does, and 5 bucks. That is more deer than I saw all last deer season :lol: