Just Curious and wanted to collect some data.

I know I had a particularly poor season, as far as deer sightings goes, I hunted in 2 states, and over 25 times, I saw a total of 4 deer. (3 for sure) and I saw a one horned spike, a spike and a doe. That was all archery season.

So what my question is, How many bucks did you see while hunting. Not Driving around or spotting ect. How many Bucks did you see, what state did you hunt and how many times did you go out? approx.

Ryan.

Edit: If you hunted more than one state, I put it so you could make a 2nd selection, so that's what that's for.

Ryan.

I can't remember for sure but I believe It was either 10 or 11 different bucks. Those numbers I listed are actually pretty good for my area. It's usually In the signal digits but I saw more mature bucks this year then usual.

If I include my week in Nebraska I saw over 50 Bucks out of a Stand/Blind this year. It was pretty much the same as the last couple of years.

The Quality of the Bucks was better though.

Dan

I saw around 13-15 different bucks in 2009. I saw around 16-18 bucks in 2008. In 2007, I only saw 3 bucks the entire 3 month season.

My season was the best ever and I only hunted sparsley as I changed jobs and could only hunt the weekends. I had a total of 16 full days on stand and about 30 3 hour hunts this year. So that is way down from a normal year.
In total I saw 132 bucks of which I could have taken a shot at would have been about 73 I think! In turn I saw 3 over the 200inch mark and that was early in the season,and no, I had no shot oppertunities at them.
Rocky

I saw 2 button bucks and there both in the freezer. I usually wouldn't shoot a small deer but no one in my family has gotten a deer in two years, so I had to restock the freezer.

While bow hunting, I saw a scraggly 5 point.

While gun hunting, I saw 2 baskets and the 9pt I shot (all seen at the same time).

Just the other night (I was driving around as season is over for me) I saw 17 deer in the square mile surrounding my dad's place. 8 were bucks,

East Central Indiana

16-20 or so. Most were smaller than last year or year before that.

None for me, still have a few chances left though.

I saw 2 bucks this year, one in RI and one in CT. They're both in my freezer now. I don't see many bucks, but I do see does fairly often.