S.T.Fanatic's Land Tour

[Brian662]

Interesting stuff ST, what do you attribute the tighter buck to doe ratio to? Have you guys done some herd management recently or anything related to limiting does?

 

[S.T.Fanatic]

Interesting stuff ST, what do you attribute the tighter buck to doe ratio to? Have you guys done some herd management recently or anything related to limiting does?

The neighbor directly to the West of us logged their property about 3 years ago and they only try to shoot trophy deer.

Half of the hunters on my family property only shoot trophy deer and the other half just aren't good hunters.

The neighbors directly to the East of us are all older and only hunt from box blinds.

We all like to eat venison and shoot several does off of each property every season.

The farm to the East of us actually has a butcher shop right on the farm. He leaves his walk in cooler on all year and lets us hang deer in there any time we want. Several years ago MNDNR put an antler put an APR in place that lasted several years until CWD popped up in the county. The neighbors to the East never were trophy hunters (although the land owner did shoot a 185" back in the 90's) They quickly realized that with the APR's in place we had many more and larger bucks than before APR's. They started to pass up smaller bucks after the APR's were lifted so that has helped. I pass up bucks every year that a neighbor to the East ends up shooting but they are 3 year olds anyway not young bucks anymore.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Great neighbor with letting you use his cooler!!

APR's here led to more big bucks than before. Sounds like things are going well there, S.T. Yotes get those buck carcasses?

 

[S.T.Fanatic]

Great neighbor with letting you use his cooler!!

APR's here led to more big bucks than before. Sounds like things are going well there, S.T. Yotes get those buck carcasses?

YES

 

[S.T.Fanatic]

Couple more from Sunday.


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[S.T.Fanatic]

Selling all of my hunting stuff because I don’t have anything to use it on.

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[Mortenson]

Dang. That's a cool buck too.

 

[Brian662]

Man, that's horrible. The hits just keep on coming for you guys.

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

That really sucks. Any idea what happened to that one?

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

While it certainly sucks that you lost that many big bucks after the season, it is pretty crazy how many mature bucks you had on your place. I don't remember how many acres this farm is, but you had quite a crop of bucks there last fall.

 

[S.T.Fanatic]

My uncles can’t see well is the biggest problem.


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