As alot of you know through my posts in the past 4-5 years I have really focused on hunting small acreage family property around the Beaumont/Winnie area. I have been successful in taking 2 Pope and Young deer over these past few years. It has been a learning experience for sure compared to where I got introduced to deer hunting in the Texas Hill Country. I usually have 5-6 bow stand setups but I have only started feeding two so far this year. I don't use feeders at all, instead I go every 7 days and spread 3 bags of corn and depending on the stage it is at, will throw out a mineral/salt block. These particular pictures are from the same stand I arrowed my 136" 9 point out of last year on opening day. I have only been feeding for a week. There are some new faces that showed up and one particular old face that I am familiar with as I had him on camera last year.
This is a 3 year old I believe, he might be 4. I'm really torn on what to do. There has been talk that this patch of woods will be clear cut in order to fit more cattle. We own everything East and North of there. The problem is, the only woods around here are some of our stuff to the North about 1/2 mile away and some stuff to the West 3/4- 1 mile away that is not owned by us.
I am very familiar with this bruiser as I had him on cam all last year and had chosen him as a deer I would take if I got the chance. Shooting the 9 point 45 minutes into opening day didn't give me that chance. I think this guy is 6-7 years old, if you search back to my game cam thread last year you will see him in it quite a bit.
These two could really be something given another year or 3. Again, having family land is nice, having family land with such a large family and differing opinions on what to do with it isn't all its cut out to be.
I will try to keep this updated as possible, feel free to shoot out ages for me and any opinions you all might have. I still have alot more work to do and am still holding out hope I find another SETX stud.
This is a 3 year old I believe, he might be 4. I'm really torn on what to do. There has been talk that this patch of woods will be clear cut in order to fit more cattle. We own everything East and North of there. The problem is, the only woods around here are some of our stuff to the North about 1/2 mile away and some stuff to the West 3/4- 1 mile away that is not owned by us.
I am very familiar with this bruiser as I had him on cam all last year and had chosen him as a deer I would take if I got the chance. Shooting the 9 point 45 minutes into opening day didn't give me that chance. I think this guy is 6-7 years old, if you search back to my game cam thread last year you will see him in it quite a bit.
These two could really be something given another year or 3. Again, having family land is nice, having family land with such a large family and differing opinions on what to do with it isn't all its cut out to be.
I will try to keep this updated as possible, feel free to shoot out ages for me and any opinions you all might have. I still have alot more work to do and am still holding out hope I find another SETX stud.
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