This year we saw much more scraping activity and more buck sightings through the use of scouting cameras and tree stand sightings at the food plot. We also noted more larger racked bucks and very few small, scrubby racked deer which we have seen plenty of in the past.
Attached are photo’s of the buck I shot off of the food plot on October 12th, he field dressed approx. 200 lbs and his 12 point rack scored just shy of 140”.
This is a good deer for this area which is mainly small woodlots on flat farm land, which receives very heavy drive oriented hunting, where very few bucks reach the age of 2 ½ years let alone 3 ½ years or older. This deer showed up with another smaller buck, made a scrape along the edge and walked out into the Chicory PLUS area of the food plot and began feeding directly in front of my tree stand. It was approximately one hour before dark in a very heavily hunted area but he seemed at ease feeding at such an early hour making me think he visited the area frequently.
