sep0667
Land of the Whitetail
I'm hunting some property that has two pretty narrow tree lines (about 10 to 20 yards wide) that are about a half mile long. They form an oval and at the south end of the oval I have a stand. The will not go all the way north because it is a road and then just plain flat bean fields as far as the eye can see. Then at the south end of the oval where the tree lines meet is a timber that is about 50 yards wide that I have two stands in, then it buts up agaisnt a good sized creek with more timber on the other side of that. In the middle of the oval is a picked corn field and it is a picked bean field and picked corn field on the outsides of the tree lines and timber. From where my stands are I can see the edge of the tree lines. I am seeing deer come out way to the north, coming out of the oval to eat in the picked corn. I have noticed that I am only seeing does and a few yearlings. I am wondering where the bucks are. I figured by now the yearlings would be pushed off from the does or that I would see some bucks come out and start chasing them around a bit, but nothing. Do you think these does have already gone into estrous and been bred? Or have they yet to come into estrous? What are your thoughts?
