Very juvenile .

I just hunt when I can

I’ll add this to the mystery. We have two totally different looking deer mixed together. The bucks will either be shorter body and light brown with real long hair underneath or longer body and grey with the pronounced black line down the top of the back.

I talk to a buddy last night above Pisgah. They killed a big cull deer yesterday. He said before he got down 4 bucks wad chasing a hot doe around the field with the dead one laying in it. Here across the river it has not started

It’s wide open North of Stevenson.

I am still getting pictures daily of bachelor groups of bucks. Here it seems the groups seem to break up once the rut kicks in. We are in the lower end of PRV. As far as coat and appearance. We have darker and lighter deer. The summer coat is more of a different coat vs winter. Some are almost orange, and some are more of a brown orange. No idea if that means anything. I never really give much thought to this subject but have found this thread really interesting. Lot to think about in it. My guess would be they are all mutts. Either way in a year that we have good cold weather, it seems our deer really get going around Jan 8 as the earliest but the 13th for sure. If we hunt the 13th through the 19th we see deer all day going every which way . This seems to start winding down and then fades away at the end of January.

We have that in south Monroe County. The “short” bucks will weigh 140-160lb range. The “long” bucks will weigh 180-200lbs. The long bucks barely fit when we hang them under the skinning shed. I’ve killed 3 of the long bucks. 185lbs, 200lbs and 205lbs. The 200 and 205 was killed out of the same stand. Our guys have killed a few more of the long bucks and they ranged from 170-200lbs. Most bucks killed are the “short” size. Which I refer to as our normal bucks.

Just curious but whereabouts are you "across the river" generally speaking?....South of Scottsboro?

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