Our camp (Braxton County) had one of the better years we've ever had as far as seeing bucks goes. We've killed a lot of bigger bucks than we did this week, but we've never seen this number of bucks. We bought the camp in the mid 60's and this year was one of the most promising we can remember.

There were only 4 hunters at our camp. Health reasons kept 2 others at home. We all killed bucks...BUT we passed on non-shooters and left some young-mature bucks for seed. We killed one 10" spike, one 8" spike, a beautiful 6pt, and a tight racked 8pt with great mass. We try to kill the "long" spikes. Some may disagree...but that's our practice. I saw 7 bucks, and one was a dandy, but I didn't have a shot. We have a feeder in the yard, and we had 3 bucks in on Thursday night...one was pushing 20", and another was a 10pt.

My cousin missed a bobcat. He killed one about 3 weeks ago,but missed a bigger one monday.

The only negative was that our checking station had only checked in 12 on friday when I checked my deer. (4 of those were ours) The owner (relative) said that he checked in over 100 the first week in 2000. I'm not sure what that's all about.

Our herd looks great. All deer were large bodied, and fat.

Hopefully you guys had a week as good as mine.