Are you sure he is hunting the bigger piece of property without permission? If not, I'd start by finding that out. If it turns out, he is in fact, trespassing, I'd let the landowner he's trespassing on decide how to handle that.
I was off a little. I would have about 8 acres to legally hunt on my 50 acres. I hope that law doesn't come here. Some years, we never rifle hunt. We've only killed 2 deer with rifles off of here, but would hate being told I can't shoot a rifle on my land safely.
I've seen it grow like that, but usually, you're not putting out more than they can eat in a day or two. They'll usually ride back through to feed a lane before it's hunted, sometimes right before.
I would think shrubs would maybe even block shot opportunities right there. I'd sink a tree or post with a vine/branch/rope scrape attached pointing towards your stand to present a broadside or quartering away shot. Or, use some other attractant like a water hole. Something that will make them...
What is he eating in that gif? I don't think you'd need to necessarily plant anything on the trails. Just daylighting them and going in a once or twice a year to spray for invasives and keep it from growing back up could up the browse and point the deer to your plot. Maybe throw some...
The hooves look like he could have been trying to recover from EHD. Entrance wounds are hard to tell sometimes. Could he have been gut shot? If so, it may have entered on his left side and exited on his right where all the meat and hide are missing. If it entered through his left gut, an...
I thought he might be dead, but the piebald buck showed back up. If I didn't have pics of him from last year that made me believe he was 2.5 then, I would have believed him to be 2.5 this year. He didn't put on much growth.
What kind of grass is in the field? If any of it is cool season, and greening up now, spray the whole field with glyphosate to kill it. You'll get a flush of stuff in the spring that you can spot spray out what you don't want. In Tennessee, they'll be feeding in it this spring and summer. In 3...
Curious about his borders. Are they setup in a way that it's an obvious distinction between his side and the other? I've seen another place like this that despite the neighbors, there are bigger bucks on one side than another. But, the place I'm thinking, you can definitely tell you are crossing...