Slow season at our place, which is typical, but we put in a lot more effort this offseason and hunted it more. Guess that's East TX for ya. I shot a basic 8 point back right before Thanksgiving and one guy shot a doe on Opening Day. Frustrating thing is we were seeing plenty of shit on the cameras, including several quality bucks. The kicker was the very solid 8 with a wide spread who showed up on camera at a stand no one was hunting yesterday morning, seemingly to taunt us on the final day of the season. Genuinely baffled that more doe weren't taken, and it wasn't for lack of trying.
We could never seem to get our deer on any kind of predictable daytime schedule despite feeding consistently for months. For pretty much the entire month of December, the camera I have set up was rarely ever picking up anything during daylight hours, except on really cold, clear mornings. But a group of mature doe would show up for dinner between 6:30 and 8:30 every evening. Solo bucks would sometimes stroll by after midnight. I think there was just too many other food sources available and they eventually just started avoiding feeders during daylight by the time Thanksgiving rolled around. Even the hogs became vampires.
Can't have helped how much the weather bounced around from week to week this season. It'd be cold and clear for a few days and then back to the 70's and foggy, then rain a bunch, then get cold again....etc.
My Dad was telling me that a golf buddy of his who processes deer as a side gig said it seemed like a very slow season as far as the amount of meat coming in (at least speaking for SETX).