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Do you honestly think you can have big mature bucks on a pice of property and keep them there without having an all around great management plan? You don’t think our farm and forest management, planting year around crops both for harvest and yearly wildlife food is not total management? You don’t think having sanctuaries off limits to humans is not part of total deer management? You don’t think keeping and taking the right amount of animals off a piece of property is not part of total management? I guess a person can call it what you want but I can promise you that you won’t have bucks like this as the norm walking around on a piece of property on a yearly basis without having a total management plan. In both food, safety and numbers of animals. An all around healthy herd of Whitetails both buck and doe will not be on unmanaged property. You might have a few deer here and there but they mostly will never see maturity.

Front moving in tonight, temps shot up to 40, might be a good afternoon sit. Trying to squeeze one more in the freezer.

Look at that spike!

lol. The 60’s and 70’s are long gone. Never to return. You see people still have choices. Nobody is telling anyone to manage their properties, nobody is telling them what to shoot. You see some hunters want the best the species they are hunting and others want the best of the species but are not in the position to reach that goal. Be it no or to small of property, equipment or even money to fulfill their desire. One Quick Look at any hunting site on Facebook or any other social media site will show you page after page of great top end bucks takin in this state and across the country and I would guess most of them are on farmlands feeding the deer too end feed yearly. Hunters harvesting top end deer has absolutely nothing to do with the lack of new hunters because of a woke generation but it most definitely helps those that do decide to take up the sport. Like it or not, less hunters means more game for those out there. And some of those out there do have the means and do have the numbers of animals to do great things with their herds. And that my friend is fulfilling every Hunter dream that wakes up every morning and that is to kill a great mature animal. And 99.9% of the time those animals carry the biggest set of bone on their heads.

My brother has a great attitude towards hunting. He has his name on the biggest deer taken on my property but he never lets that get in the way of a good hunt and kill. Doe , small buck or yearling. To him it's the hunt. Opening day he has his 14 year old Grandson with him. They have this half rack 6 pt come walking down 15 yards from the stand. My brother says for him to shoot, the kids says no I want a 10 pt. My brother looks at him and says this aint TV, that is your first deer now take it. We both had to remind the kid back at the buck pole what hunting is all about. He got it but it's unfortunate what was in his mind.

Last picture has a deer with his head in the air. I created a mock scrape with a licking branch. These deer have been using it for months now.

Some photos taken off my trail cameras October - December 2024