My uncle has been out hunting this 3.5 sections that we have rights to during archery season. My bow was stolen so I sat out the archery. Anyway we both have doe only tags.
He's been seeing 100 deer a day on this land. Decided to quit hunting it about 4 days before rifle season. We go out there opening day. Had a nice stalk on what turned out to be 3 bucks. Later on in the day a group of hunters pushed 2 fawn, 3 doe, and a buck group onto our land from the neighboring wheat field. They were so jumpy we couldn't get within 500 yards of them.
We're left wondering, what the hell happened to all the deer. We talked to 10 different hunters on neighboring land and most of them didn't see a single deer.
We're hunting right up against the Nebraska South Dakota border, one of the guys in SD said he's seeing tons of does but no bucks, and they're all still herded together. It appears that the Whitetails are rutting farther south on the river beds, but the muley's just left the country and don't appear to be rutting.
One of the bucks we saw with the 2 other bucks was a monster. Damn doe only tag.
Just venting.