Recent content by BenA

In Kentucky, you can't feed March 1 thru July 31. I'm going to supply high protein food plots during that time period to concentrate deer around me. Food, Food, Food. My native forage in cover, cover, cover plan didn't work out so well.

This pretty much confirms my suspicions about my area. There's so much baiting being done and so much cover, that if you're not baiting, you're not going to hold many deer in relation to the people who are. I'm about to bump the food plot portion of my property out the roof. I'll also start...

If you stopped baiting, but your neighbors continued, what would happen?

Do you believe if you didn't bait, you wouldn't have as many deer even with that many acres in food plots? I'm starting to think prolonged baiting on a property can trump anything for holding deer.

Yes. After rifle season. I didn't hunt rifle season this year. Neighbors are still getting pics of bucks over bait. These are cob piles. I guess on the ground cobs trumps on the stalk cobs. I don't blame the neighbors or anything like that. They're great people. I just wanted to try making great...

I'm at a loss. My property has extremely limited pressure all year, even during the off season. My cover is better than ever. I have basically a funnel where all my food is on one end. One of my stands is set to where I can see almost anything that even tries to move towards the food. Even my...

Usually I see 1-3. This last week was horrible. I saw 4 deer total over 7 days.

He keeps all the corn. He picked half during the first part of the season, and the other half after. He's picking whole cobs he sells. I get tractor work in exchange.

Yes, but the farmer does everything with the corn in exchange for tractor work since I don't have a tractor up there. He mows lanes and firebreaks in my old fields. He picks the other half of the corn after the season. I live 10.5 hrs away, so it works out good. If I had a tractor up there, I...

I doubt it would stop it unless the wardens would use drones to check everywhere. Let me vent and pout, LOL 😆

Bringing this back up. I'd love to see the no baiting rule started in Kentucky. My property has fizzled into an absolute ghost town. I've had one deer sighting in the last week. Not many on cameras either. I have one doe that is a semi-regular. My old fields were good earlier, but not the...

You could bend some cattle panels into a upside down U attaching them to the rails of the ladder stand. Cover that with a tarp or similar.

Because I would be grateful to my neighbor if they let me know someone was trespassing on my land if I wasn't aware of it.

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.