I'll have to get the cams back out there. Seems like all the information online (other than here) and in magazines is for midwest deer with tall trees and green all the time doesn't apply here...unless i am missing something
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Originally posted by tward1604 View PostI'll have to get the cams back out there. Seems like all the information online (other than here) and in magazines is for midwest deer with tall trees and green all the time doesn't apply here...unless i am missing something
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Originally posted by tward1604 View PostI'll have to get the cams back out there. Seems like all the information online (other than here) and in magazines is for midwest deer with tall trees and green all the time doesn't apply here...unless i am missing something
First, Use hand corn and a bunch of cameras. This will help you locate where the deer are normally traveling.
I'm not sure about your area, but where I hunt in east texas you need to locate the deer first and hunt that area rather than throw up a feeder and try to attract them to you.
My best spot right now actually has a feeder hanging from a limb, but other feeders 500 yards away will have no deer activity. It's because that spot I'm hunting I hunt it because it's a heavily used traffic area and I just put a feeder up off to the side of it. So the deer are already coming through now they just stop and come through more often.
Try to get away from the feeder hunting and get more on their trails coming and going to the feeder and you'll catch him slip up once coming by. Hand corn and trails work best.
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Originally posted by tward1604 View PostI'll have to get the cams back out there. Seems like all the information online (other than here) and in magazines is for midwest deer with tall trees and green all the time doesn't apply here...unless i am missing something
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Originally posted by TTU TX Hunter View PostI will give you every bit of knowledge I have about hunting that area. I was on a lease for two years just North of Rule that bordered the Brazos. How many acres are you on with how many people and also how much wheat do you have available to hunt?
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Running a 140.5" avg on <300ac with double digits neighbors..with a few having stands & feeders right up against the fence and open fields to shoot across that butt up against the place. If "big" deer is the goal, you just can't go pulling the trigger to make your situation worse. There's no such thing as a cull, with age, that may be a sacrificial lamb that allows another deer to survive season. Does? Better try not to disperse them...ROI, as far as feed/plots in relation to # of deer shot - don't bother trying to figure that up. Last year, one bachelor group of 4 had dang near 500" of horn between 3 deer and a post mature, 150 in his prime 8pt, anchoring the group. Could've shot every single one of them as quality deer (for the area) at some point over the past few years (6yrs ago on the old one), but that's why you roll the dice to try to produce something special. 1 remains after last season....but that one could make everything worthwhile.
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Originally posted by Dandy123 View PostI guess I'm spoiled hunting here in northern Missouri my whole life. Around my area if a deer makes it to three years old he's usually at 130 or more. But I've hunted in the Hill country around lampassas several times and I have seen maybe one buck that was close to 130. It doesn't make it any less fun to me though I just like deer hunting.
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