Alright guys I am at a point where I need to decide which way to go. Our family property in Walker county is in need of one of the two and cant decide which way to go. The property is 1200 acres. Has a yr round creek, 5 ponds and 2 slews. The property is about 600 +- acres of native timber (oaks, pine etc) and the rest is open pasture. We are running about 60 hd of cows on it but in all honesty they dont even keep the grass in check.
Our deer herd is a lil out of wack and I need to try to get something going to help with it. There are only 4 of us that hunt it and realy there is only 2. The other 2 are my cousin and his friend and they are weekend warriors, you know show up for a weekend run around on wheelers and set up feeders the day before they want to hunt and wonder why they never see anything
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Me and my brother that hunt it both live 4 hours away and its hard for us to get the doe population in check when we may only get up there 3 or mabye 4 times before doe season is over. But we usually get up there 3 or 4 times in December alone.
Just a rough idea of what we have, Last season sitting in one blind that I call the observitory, its in a pasture that is 300 + yds across and is over 400 yds one way and over 1000 yds the other. I counted 37 deer in the field at one time and saw only 4 bucks and only one of them I could be certain was over 4.5. The Buck to doe ratio is OFF. I try to take atleast 2 does a yr from there but I also hunt here close to the house and these folks want me to take 6 to 8 deer a yr also (not enough Tags). Obviously friends and family come into count for this but my Cousin MIGHT kill one deer and his friend might kill 2. I have my sister and wife this yr with guns in hand but they are only there when I am.
Enough rambeling any infor that would point me in a direction would be helpfull. I know for a fact that I need to be able to shoot does throughout the entire season there to be able to take the numbers off that need to be taken. Again I want to do what is best not necessarily what might be the easiest.
Cullen
Our deer herd is a lil out of wack and I need to try to get something going to help with it. There are only 4 of us that hunt it and realy there is only 2. The other 2 are my cousin and his friend and they are weekend warriors, you know show up for a weekend run around on wheelers and set up feeders the day before they want to hunt and wonder why they never see anything
.Me and my brother that hunt it both live 4 hours away and its hard for us to get the doe population in check when we may only get up there 3 or mabye 4 times before doe season is over. But we usually get up there 3 or 4 times in December alone.
Just a rough idea of what we have, Last season sitting in one blind that I call the observitory, its in a pasture that is 300 + yds across and is over 400 yds one way and over 1000 yds the other. I counted 37 deer in the field at one time and saw only 4 bucks and only one of them I could be certain was over 4.5. The Buck to doe ratio is OFF. I try to take atleast 2 does a yr from there but I also hunt here close to the house and these folks want me to take 6 to 8 deer a yr also (not enough Tags). Obviously friends and family come into count for this but my Cousin MIGHT kill one deer and his friend might kill 2. I have my sister and wife this yr with guns in hand but they are only there when I am.
Enough rambeling any infor that would point me in a direction would be helpfull. I know for a fact that I need to be able to shoot does throughout the entire season there to be able to take the numbers off that need to be taken. Again I want to do what is best not necessarily what might be the easiest.
Cullen
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