Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
Growing up hunting in hunting camps with upwards of 25-30 members I’ve always maintained people management is harder than deer management. So multiply that by a factor of a state population and you can run into real issues growing mature deer. I always enjoy hearing success stories in unlikely places. It’s a giant validation that habitat and quality deer management works if given a chance. Uncommon places that come to mind are like a North Carolina, Michigan, Minnesota (not the southeast corner), Pennsylvania, New York among some others for sure. Craig Harper talks about a foothills property in North Carolina that has started managing intensively years ago and they are now shooting booners. There’s a guy on another site that has a huge chunk of ground that growing absolute giants in Virginia. Anyone know of any properties that buck the trend (pun intended) of the states reputation and produces high scoring mature bucks regularly? Not 130’s but 160’s and up regularly.