OakSeeds, that gave me visions of them subbing in for the brooms under Mickey Mouse's direction in the original Fantasia.
Joking aside, normally have them sitting on various shelves but took them all in to the Florida Wildlife Commission for scoring / entry into FL's trophy buck system. Bar's REAL LOW in FL, with only a net of 100 needed, and all met it. Just grabbed the photo before putting them back up.
And only share to say if I can do it, most
ANYONE can do it! And to speak to how much helpful advice from these forums makes a difference!
One SINGLE tip from a QDMA forum member who walked my place with me was 99% responsible for my success, and it had to do with stand location. I let an employee's husband hunt the very first year I owned the place, just as he was trying to get in to bow hunting. We both got bucks in the 90s that year, he was happy, but I was getting tons of night-only hits that showed me even nicer bucks were strictly nocturnal visitors... that, and he was hunting almost EVERY DAY and after almost every visit talked about spooking deer. To get to the stand he liked (and he'd put up) he had to walk ACROSS the small plot we'd planted and any wind out of the NE was blowing scent right into the plot while he sat.
QDMA member adamantly talked about how the stand needed to be moved. I told the employee's husband I was simply going to move the stand to the opposite corner for ease of entry (avoid having to cross plot) and that bruised his ego so much he informed me in short order he found another place to hunt. I moved the stand, limited hunting to cold-front days with NE winds, and voila... no more nocturnal buck problem.
And hope all that still speaks to Patrick's original post -- sometimes the simplest / most basic changes that require very little physical work can make the biggest difference! That, and good to come up with entry / stand plans as one of your starting points.