The Pre-Rut Cranks Up

I love October! It’s the time of the year when the bucks finally start to get cranked up and move around a good bit in preparation for breeding. And from the amount of scrapes and rubs that we are seeing in the woods, I would say that the bucks are definitely on their feet.

I also love October because its when hunters start to really have some good success in the woods on these traveling deer who are leaving all of that sign. And starting us off in October was the 3 man crew down from New York, Robert, Ron and Carl, who knocked down two does and a nice 8 point over on boggy Creek while also missing two. Then we had Zack from NC who followed up Danny’s good fortune on our Pleasant Hill Plantation tract by shooting a great 8 point.

Another NC hunter was David, and he was down looking for either a monster gator or a smaller one that would fit in a certain space in his trophy room. Well he passed on a few monsters and ended up getting a nice 7 footer… Our lodge’s first gator ever!

Hunting should just get better and better now that we are to the mid way point of October and the bucks continue to move more during shooting hours. And that should be welcome news to the big group of guys we have coming in this weekend looking to put some game down as well as for all of the other hunters we have booked over the next 6 to 8 weeks.

Jeff