![]() ![]() We didn’t have a blue-tongue outbreak, and the Wildlife Resources Commission’s rules continue to keep Chronic Wasting Disease out of North Carolina. hunters are being more selective, even in “deer-dogging” counties. The good news is the experts believe N.C.’s two-buck limit across the central and western portions of the state is actually stock-piling big deer, as they predicted. And we received trophy buck entries from November long into December. Our November Bag-A-Buck collection piled up higher than September and October combined. North Carolina Sportsman received more photos of more trophy deer during November for its Bag-A-Buck 8 contest than any month in its history. The weather didn’t seem to matter whitetails were on the move, and hunters were drilling them right and left. Hunters began seeing and shooting big deer everywhere - bucks that pushed the B&C envelope (170 inches for a typical rack, 195 for a non-typical). So experts really weren’t looking for much of a big-buck harvest.īut a funny thing happened on the way to 2006. It was hot - sweating, mosquitos-still-flying sweltry - during the early part of November, the “peak” rut (mating) period. Normally, though, it takes cold weather to really trigger a blizzard of wandering bucks, but that didn’t happen in 2005. It’s the best time for hunters to be in the woods because one never knows if a decent four-pointer, a nice eight-, or a heart-stopping buck with headgear that’ll push Boone-and-Crockett margins will appear. But during November, a trigger snaps in their heads that says, “Let’s party,” and off they go, wandering across hill and dale for days at a time, without rest, looking for receptive partners. It’s not very good for automobile drivers as deer seem to be on the roads 24-7, darting in front of vehicles like wind-blown leaves (NCDOT estimated a record 15,509 deer-car collisions during 2004).īasically what happens is the mating season - bucks chase does, trying to catch them to make little deer.ĭuring daylight hours the remaining 11 months of the year, antlered bucks - especially older specimens - are wary and rarely wander. Every deer hunter in the Tar Heel state looks forward to November because its first three weeks are when whitetails basically lose their minds. ![]()
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