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ive heard 5 seperate groups of shooting already this evening. Now I just need a fattie to come my way.
What kind or day time movement are you seeing?ive heard 5 seperate groups of shooting already this evening. Now I just need a fattie to come my way.
Over how many acres? Is this mainly a buck/doe ratio thing or fill the freezer?we have taken 340 the last 10 years. we dropped goal down to 20 this year.
I have been logging all week, and starting today, had deer within 100 yards of me all day. As soon as I would leave with a load, they would come in and start eating the tops until I arrived back. Seems awful early in the season to have deer coming into the tree tops during the day with only 2 inches of snow on the ground. Obviously, we have an overpopulation here.What kind or day time movement are you seeing?
Only shot I had. The rest of her herd smelt me and booked. She hesitated. Ive killed well over 75 deer in 3 years and have yet to loose one. Probably over 150, maybe 175 since I've lost one. Usually I make that shot. She dropped and I slit her throat.
Pretty good amount of shots, I'd say 20 seperate occasions.
I'm nocking my population down big time. A lot less deer, than there was 5 years ago on my place. My southern 120 hardly has a track. I hunted real hard on my east 40 and only got 2 the last week. The deer will move back in.
Just like pope, I have hundreds of acres surrounding me where no one shoots does. You can go a mile down the road and hardly see a deer.
Not as good as it should be. I own a good amount of land, and you can't fence it in. Almost all of my neighbors don't have the same size standards as I. One neighbor has 16 hunters on it, with multiple tags. I used to have some awesome hunting during earn a buck, even with insane pressure. Now it's pass does and shoot every buck you see. Within a half mile in all directions I have at least 70 people hunting with multiple buck tags. They have quality habitat to boot. It's impossible to get a good buck age structure like low pressure areas. Especially if they aren't passing young bucks.What kind of bucks are you and your neighbors seeing? Numbers and age wise
"Your hunting is only as good as your neighbors!"
I disagree. I have 27 adjacent landowners and there results have never been what ours is. My habitat development over 39 years is 1 factor. Thermal bedding/foodplots. 2)How we hunt our property(low pressure, have enough stands to always play the wind 3) when an opportunity for a big buck is there we don't miss. We took some really nice mature bucks this year and have 3 big boys still on property and they never left our place all fall. They never had a reason to cross the wire.