Who is gonna battle the heat?

[swampbadger]

I enjoy the velvet hunt but no bucks to hunt this year do I'll cheer for yall who do.

I wear gym shorts and wife beater with leafy suit treated with permithrin. Long socks treated with permithrin and muck boots. I'm sure I look ridiculous but I stay pretty cool considering the circumstances.

Man I'm wearing the same thing (gym shorts and leafy top) but adding chaps for busting through brush and black mesh breathable tennis shoes instead of muck boots. I don't care if they get soaked. I take the chaps off once i get up and locked in on my tether.

I've got a new to me lock on I'm gonna test out on some public land. I have zero confidence of connecting with a buck. I haven't done any homework, glassing, or scouting.

I have shot my bow and feel good out to 40 yards though. Hopefully it rains this week and brings the water level up some I'd love to take my boat but I will probably just hike in somewhere.

 

[Whitetaillane8]

Not me.

 

[wrightk2]

I believe I will Friday. Just can't decide where to hunt. I've got a good problem to have. I've got 2 different shooter bucks on 2 different properties.

 

[Dumbluck]

Did they change the date this year? It's always been the last weekend of August if I remember correctly. I don't think I hunted it last year.

I told my wife specifically many months ago I was not going anywhere this year during velvet season. Guess when she books a trip home to see her family, during velvet season! I'm gonna be in the doghouse boys, I'm not going. I've got a buck I've kept track of since 2019 on a 3 day pattern. I'm sitting morning and afternoon for him.

I typically wear short sleeves and real thin camo jeans sprayed down with a therma cell.

@JCDEERMAN save me couch to sleep on for when she gets home.

 

[Ski]

I believe I will Friday. Just can't decide where to hunt. I've got a good problem to have. I've got 2 different shooter bucks on 2 different properties.

I have a solution to your conundrum. You hunt the left and I'll hunt the right. Problem solved. Where should we meet up?

 

[knightrider]

Man I'm wearing the same thing (gym shorts and leafy top) but adding chaps for busting through brush and black mesh breathable tennis shoes instead of muck boots. I don't care if they get soaked. I take the chaps off once i get up and locked in on my tether.

I've got a new to me lock on I'm gonna test out on some public land. I have zero confidence of connecting with a buck. I haven't done any homework, glassing, or scouting.

I have shot my bow and feel good out to 40 yards though. Hopefully it rains this week and brings the water level up some I'd love to take my boat but I will probably just hike in somewhere.

I thought it was private lands only?

 

[Ski]

Did they change the date this year? It's always been the last weekend of August if I remember correctly. I don't think I hunted it last year.

I told my wife specifically many months ago I was not going anywhere this year during velvet season. Guess when she books a trip home to see her family, during velvet season! I'm gonna be in the doghouse boys, I'm not going. I've got a buck I've kept track of since 2019 on a 3 day pattern. I'm sitting morning and afternoon for him.

I typically wear short sleeves and real thin camo jeans sprayed down with a therma cell.

@JCDEERMAN save me couch to sleep on for when she gets home.

Be a good husband and do what your wife asks. Save JC the trouble. I'll take one for the team and hunt that buck for you Already gotta hunt one of @wright2 anyway, so wouldn't be a bother.

 

[wrightk2]

I have a solution to your conundrum. You hunt the left and I'll hunt the right. Problem solved. Where should we meet up?

I hear ya!

 

[Ski]

I hear ya!

On a serious note, it's a good year to capitalize on the 2 buck limit! Get a good one in velvet and still have one to chase in regular season.

 

[Dumbluck]

Be a good husband and do what your wife asks. Save JC the trouble. I'll take one for the team and hunt that buck for you Already gotta hunt one of @wright2 anyway, so wouldn't be a bother.

I figured someone would offer that. No I'm gonna be a consistent husband and do as I said months ago. Sure if he wasn't walking right past my tree in shooting light I'd go with them. I probably won't lay eyes on him. I shot him last year and hit a limb, it just stung him. He moved 2 miles to a different farm. After I walked about 15 miles looking for him. I thought, I better go back where I originally found this deer in 2019 and hang a camera. Sure enough he showed up within 48 hours healthy as an ox. He'll move again back to where I shot him any day now and then he will vanish come October so I better hunt him now while I know where he is.

 

[wrightk2]

That's a good point! Hadn't thought of that.

 

[Ski]

I figured someone would offer that. No I'm gonna be a consistent husband and do as I said months ago. Sure if he wasn't walking right past my tree in shooting light I'd go with them. I probably won't lay eyes on him. I shot him last year and hit a limb, it just stung him. He moved 2 miles to a different farm. After I walked about 15 miles looking for him. I thought, I better go back where I originally found this deer in 2019 and hang a camera. Sure enough he showed up within 48 hours healthy as an ox. He'll move again back to where I shot him any day now and then he will vanish come October so I better hunt him now while I know where he is.

Well then I wish you nothing but the best of luck. Be sure to post pics when he's down!

 

[EastTNHunter]

Nope. Hopefully hiking with my son

 

[Tennessee Lead]

Squirrel hunting/scouting

 

[Buzzard Breath]

I thought it was private lands only?

Some unit 1 wma's are open for the velvet hunt.

 

[Andy S.]

I'm going to hunt the evenings. I don't think the mornings will be very productive.

This would be my plan to if I were to hunt, as most of my pics, and majority of my decent/good buck pics are last hour of daylight (and ofc midnight ).

 

[Andy S.]

Did they change the date this year? It's always been the last weekend of August if I remember correctly.

Always been the 4th weekend of August, overlapping with squirrel opener. Here is proclamation language.

 

[Dumbluck]

Always been the 4th weekend of August, overlapping with squirrel opener. Here is proclamation language.

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Thanks Andy. I'm gonna end up missing it after all. I just can't send her off with her being excited and burst that bubble. I could have sworn I even looked at the app and it dated the last weekend when I looked. I looked again yesterday and it was updated but wasn't even legible.

I'll use this in the future for other things like me forgetting birthdays and anniversaries. "But baby I can't even remember what dates the velvet hunt is"

 

[redblood]

No way. Plan to filling the cooler with crappie in the morning and going for a run mid day. ThT afternoon maybe discing plots. Calendar has to read october before i will hunt a deer. Best of luck with those who go

 

[BSK]

No way. Plan to filling the cooler with crappie in the morning and going for a run mid day. ThT afternoon maybe discing plots. Calendar has to read october before i will hunt a deer. Best of luck with those who go

Thursday morning looks like a good run morning. Air temps in the 50s, dewpoint possibly upper 40s.