out of only about the 20 days or so i hunted i saw maybe 15 different bucks. only 3 were shooters (above 125") one being in the 140"s. This includes the deer in my avatar. The rest were a mix of smaller eight, six points and scrub bucks. Intrestingly i saw as many bucks this year as i did does.

Greg that is awesome that you log all of that info about your hunts throughout the year. I do it throughout the summer when I am bass fishing but I have never logged my hunts like I do my fishing trips. I believe next year I will try it. Do you use a field journal to keep your records or do you just do it on the computer in excel or word or something similar. Just curious.

I only hunted bow season no gun season for me. Here in Central IL I seen around 20-25 different bucks, this isn't counting bucks that I seen numerous times or more than once. I would say8-10 of them were mature bucks. The rest being smaller.

goherd1111,
My records are made up by me. I started keeping records in 1986. I wrote in a notebook, little stories about my hunts along with the weather and wind. I did this until the late '90s, then got away from records keeping. Then I started back up in 2002. This year I didn't tell the stories, just recorded sightings, weather, wind, AM, PM and stand location. I keep it all on the computer and use excell and chart the info. I did like the story telling though. I thought that one day maybe my grandkids might want to page through my notes, you never know. This year I am going to add a short description of each hunt in my notes. I'm a numbers guy, I like messing with the numbers and making graphs. Here's a couple, look at the info, see what you think.

I only saw about 7 or 8 spikes mostly

About 200+. Don't know how many days I got out this year. I know it was more then ever.

I had about 25 deer come out into the field my first afternoon up in a stand. 3 of them were bucks for sure. I couldn't tell what about 15 of them were because it was getting dark and they were about half way out in the field.

That wasn't all I saw. I probably saw about 10 throughout the year with only a couple shooters in the group. That got taken during gun season

3 Bucks with approx 20-25 hours on stand this season (didn't get out as much as I wanted). One of them was a shooter. Saw several doe almost every time out this season, though. There just wasn't a lot of bucks around this year for some reason (very little sign as well).

I saw 17 and shot 1. Not all mature, didn't keep track on that basis. I hunted for 1 week in Nebraska. Had shot opportunities at all but one. Shot my deer the first morning and didn't see any really big ones so let them walk.

Honestly I saw enough to get the fever going, no more than 8
I don't think this has anything to-do with your hunting abilities just where your hunting.
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