wtnhunt Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 About 7 Sunday morning a single young buck steps of the woods out about 150 yards out. He looks around, takes a few steps, then looks back. Looked like he was heading to cut through the brush pile so I grunted one short soft grunt. He looked up, looked back again and another buck steps out. The second buck was a bit heavier and he looked at the first buck. They both started up the hill between the woods and the brush pile and got to about 115 yards out from me, they were downwind from me and the wind was pretty consistent. The first one stopped, the second one angled towards him and nudged him with his antlers. They turned facing and started pushing each other, then it picked up a little. I could barely hear the antlers, but I could hear them. They jabbed each other in the sides a few times, and the pushing picked up intensity a little more. Kept hearing something up in the woods behind me. Decided while watching these two guys to see how they would respond to some calling so I let out a bleet from the can, they stopped and both looked up, angled towards me one behind the other. They stopped and faced each other again, so I let out a couple short grunts, then they started towards me again, then two young does step out of the woods between me and the two bucks, but due to the lay of the land with the ridge of the hill I am not sure if the bucks could see the does. The does are in range, but neither is offering a shot. I determined that they were both yearlings, and I decided I would just watch them. The bucks got as close as about 40 yards out from the does and then went off to our grower food plot about 150 yards away back off to my right, then about 15 minutes later while the does were feeding out in front of me the two bucks came back. One chased one doe, the other one chased the other but only for a couple seconds and only long enough to chase them off the plot in front of me. Had some really good shot opportunities on both bucks before they finally made their way off around 8, but they were both young,the older of the two possibly being a really young 2 1/2 year old. With the youth hunt coming up this weekend figure my daughter should have a really good opportunity at taking a deer. Have seen fights on television, and even seen two bucks tied up while driving down the road, but had never seen two bucks tie up while out hunting before now. Pretty cool to watch, and experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrelhunter91 Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Re: never seen this before now That's pretty cool! Is there a good buck/doe ratio in your area? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master_Chief Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Re: never seen this before now That's a great experience. I called a buck in with the can call and some rattling a couple years ago. Not the biggest buck I have taken but the most gratifying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Finn Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Re: never seen this before now Man, that is really cool. Congrats on the great experience and good luck to your daughter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerClay Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Re: never seen this before now I've seen it a couple times from the truck but never while hunting. Thanks for sharing with us!! Ranger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xen Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Re: never seen this before now that's cool, personally, i think you can call a hunt successful when you have an experience like that, it's definately somthing you'll remember for a long time. it's things like that which keep a lot of us going back out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deadeye270 Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Re: never seen this before now got to love teenagers.... they are always looking for a fight. When you a kid did you ever wrestle with your friends? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThethirdI Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Re: never seen this before now [ QUOTE ] Had some really good shot opportunities on both bucks before they finally made their way off around 8, but they were both young,the older of the two possibly being a really young 2 1/2 year old. [/ QUOTE ] Is that as opposed to a really old two and a half year old? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladydiehard Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Re: never seen this before now Thats cool! Good luck to you and your daughter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tyshe17 Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Re: never seen this before now I feel comfortable answering that buck to doe ratio question, bc west tennessee is where I cut my teeth hunting and I still go there at least once every year. NO! when I was in 10th grade I logged every deer i saw for a science project, and came up with a buck to doe ratio of about 16 does for every buck. This was probably a little high, bc some of the does I saw were the same ones every time, but so were some of the bucks. i would say 8-12 to one would be perfectly reasonable for the area I was in in W TN. but as the rut heats up if you put bucks and does together they are going to act like bucks and does! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted October 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 Re: never seen this before now [ QUOTE ] Is there a good buck/doe ratio in your area? [/ QUOTE ] Not really. They have created some doe hunts with rifles in the area to help balance out the numbers in the past couple years. I would estimate the current buck to doe ratio here in this area to be between 5-8 does per buck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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