Still have 10 days left here in Alabama. Plan to be in woods Wed. a.m. and hunt through the end of the season.

The area I hunt has two distinct periods of doe estrus .... about Nov. 25 - Dec. 15 and again about Jan. 10 - Jan. 31. The second estrus cycle has fired up. Friend killed a 144 1/4 incher (green score obviously) Friday morning .... chasing does along with another really good buck. Another busdd who is hunting from a stand I set up a few weeks back texted me about a hour ago. Had a good 8 pt. ease though running a couple of does. Not quiet a shooter.

As far as overall this season we as a group are way down. especially on does. Our property (about 3150 acres) is about 2/3 planted pines. The age of the pines now is such that on 1500 +/- acres the under brush is pretty much limited to the edges. This has resulted in numbers of deer using the property for feeding on browse thse pst 2-3 years to be down dramatically. Added to a long stretch of abnormally warm weather up through Christmas and a heck of an acorn crop, the deer have not wanted to nor have had to move much in order to stay fat and happy.

I have 4 does in the freezer and have passed on 6 to 8 pretty good bucks. I have not seen anything in the 125" and up class. Thse are rare on this place anyway simply because most of our folks don't pass any "decent" 7-8-9-10 pointer. And folks hunting adjacent properties don't either.

Cold now and supposed to have another cold snap next week. So maybe I'll get lucky, cause Lord knows I am not good !!!