Second season Colorado reports

[a3dhunter]

Central Colorado around 7k feet found this guy with 8 does on 10/31.

 

[Hnthrdr]

Central Colorado around 7k feet found this guy with 8 does on 10/31.
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Nice buck!

 

[MallardSX2]

Central Colorado around 7k feet found this guy with 8 does on 10/31.
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Congrats. I would be very happy with that deer!

 

[Poser]

Not going to lie, these reports don't make me feel warm and fuzzy about third season. Hopefully this turns around by the weekend. Thanks for sharing input to those that did.

I'd wager 2nd rifle is probably the most difficult season to hunt mule deer bucks. That being said, with significant October snow, I'd wager the success rates were higher than we've seen in a few years. I saw a lot of big mule deer killed in the various hunting FB groups.

But also.... what were you expecting reports of? Rutting in Oct?

 

[wgrkman]

We burnt some points on a pretty good unit in southern central CO. From 10/24 to 11/2, the number of deer in town went up probably 5x so they were migrating but didn't see much rut except for 1 or 2 year old bucks. We had significant snow in the high country of our unit (about 2').

We killed 3 pretty good bucks. My buddy and I shot two bucks out of a group on 10/30 that were with a group of about 15 does. We didn't find the biggest bucks on public but the deer numbers were great in the unit. Saw 50-100 deer a day. Fun hunt.