Originally Posted by 7.62NATO

I have been out four full days since Oct 30, and the only deer I've seen were three does snaking through the woods together, but I had no shot. That’s it. I spoke with about 8 other hunters and they said deer sightings have been very low, and I have heard very little gunfire. Of the four times I’ve been out, two have been on public land (a good-sized state park) and two on a farm 60 miles north. My buddy hunted for two days in September three hours west of here and didn’t see anything either. Anyone else experiencing this?

The mast on the ground is unbelievably plentiful, despite the severe drought we had this summer (so I’m no longer sure there’s a correlation between rain and mast). It’s like if the deer want to eat during the day, they can just poke their heads out from the thickets and nibble on acorns and don’t have to go anywhere…