Recent content by BenA

My boss does that type of "hunting". I ask him each time how much he paid to shoot it.

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.

A little tip of the hat to Texas style hunting.

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...

Awesome bucks! Congratulations!

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...

I can't imagine. I'm so sorry.

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...

And, they love the mowed lanes. They follow them and feed in them just like @Native Hunter said.

Some of the older bucks are moving through checking for hot does.

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...

Update on this 60 acres. It sold just the other day for $77k. Someone is going to have some really good bucks if they can keep outlaws away. They may also be in it for the ducks too. It's WRP land, thus the reason for the cheap price.