In my area (west Lexington County South Carolina), since Hurricane Ian came through, the deer vanished. I hunt a smaller parcel but was still getting a dozen or more deer a day for several hours on my corn pile.
The high winds basically shook down all the acorns which I know they want more than the corn but not only that, there’s very little deer sign at all. It’s like they bedded down for the storm and never came back.
There’s a freshwater creek on the back on the parcel and I have found a few signs of travel but again nothing like the herd that was moving through up until a few weeks ago.
Any ideas? I’d harvested one deer earlier in the season and haven’t been hunting it to death, just adding corn every so often to keep them around which was working
I’m really at a loss since this has never happened before and all I know (which isn’t much) is self taught. Anything I can do besides just wait it out and let nature refill the void ?
The high winds basically shook down all the acorns which I know they want more than the corn but not only that, there’s very little deer sign at all. It’s like they bedded down for the storm and never came back.
There’s a freshwater creek on the back on the parcel and I have found a few signs of travel but again nothing like the herd that was moving through up until a few weeks ago.
Any ideas? I’d harvested one deer earlier in the season and haven’t been hunting it to death, just adding corn every so often to keep them around which was working
I’m really at a loss since this has never happened before and all I know (which isn’t much) is self taught. Anything I can do besides just wait it out and let nature refill the void ?
