It is 11/29/11 and we, that is Morgan, Charlie and I have hunted for the first 3 weekends in November at this new lease. I have not seen anything to shoot at, Morgan has seen a few small bucks with nothing in range and Charlie was sitting in the stand and had a little 6 chasing a doe come through his area on the third weekend.  We did see one good buck on the tc’s in the swamp area.

I took a break from hunting the Thanksgiving weekend so that we could do some stuff around the house and I was getting to be a little tired from going out of town every weekend. Me and Morgan have been gone 5 out of the last 6 weekends before Thanksgiving.

I have tried to pattern the rut by reading different posts and I think it is around 11/10/11, which also happens to be the Harvest Moon. Now, for those that don’t know, the Harvest Moon is the 2^nd full moon after the fall equinox and many believe that is the moon that triggers the does to go into estrus.

Deer hunters believe many things and many believe the cold weather triggers the rut, I am not of this camp. I believe it is the amount of daylight combined with the light from the full moon that does this. This is a constant, it is always there year after year, the cold is not. Well some may say that the clouds can throw this theory out the window, but I say when it is cloudy during the day we can see without a flashlight and when it is cloudy during the night of the full moon you can tell there is some light in the sky.

Now we have 7 trail cam's out and there is a lot of anticipation to see what we have on there. A person can spend hours dissecting all the pics on these cams, it seems as though it can be as fun as hunting almost, just another element to the hunt.

Grayson County lease









  Charlie found a lease up in Grayson county with these 2 other guys. It is 500 acs. the majority of the property is pasture, it is split down the center from east to west with a blacktop road which it drains from the road to the north and south, there is a creek at the bottom of the north end that is part of the property line and there is also one down on the south end but I haven't made it down into that area yet.
This past weekend we put out Trail Cams (tc) when we were not hunting, we put out six and they are the ones that have the white pins.
Hunting up here in Grayson County is a lot tuffer than when we were down in Lampasas, down there there was a deer behind every bush it seemed like. Me and Morgan would see at least 6 deer and up to 10 deer a time when we gun hunted out of our blind. I told Morgan that he had been spoiled all these years from getting to hunt down there. but he got to shoot some deer and see what all was involved in a hill country lease.