I was DeltaDog (or DeltaDawg - can't remember for sure) on the QDMA site. I was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, and lived there until I was 40. I hunt one small club there that is not necessarily a QDM place, although we try to shoot does and mostly nicer bucks... No age restrictions... I've been working on those boys for a LONG time, trying to get them to come around... But... with our neighbors... sigh... One is a "brown is down" guy, and the other told us several years ago that they were only going to shoot 4 1/2 year old or older deer... Opening morning, they shot a spike (in a state where it is 4 points or better, at the time). When we asked them about it, the owner said, "Well, he's a client. We can't tell him what to kill." Next weekend, another "client" shot a 3 point... Over the years, they have shot every young buck they saw... Yet, this year, when I was blessed with a 17 inch 8 point that I did not age, but estimated at 2 1/2 right before I pulled the trigger...He felt obliged to remind me that "WE only shoot mature deer, and he and the other landowners are going to need to discuss what my punishment might be..." I told him that since my family owns the land the deer was killed on, I was looking forward to his call. And reminded him that we would discuss all of the spikes and 3 points they have killed, when we discussed my "punishment." He hasn't called yet....
Then... My cousin owns 132 acres of WRP... I worked several years on laying it out as a QDM place... It is ideally situated between 2 tracts of "public" land... neither of which allow deer hunting. One is small game only, and the other is waterfowl only... The whole place (132 acres) will flood... and most of it is right now, as a matter of fact... I hunted that place 5 years without seeing a deer while hunting. On the 6th year, I saw a 16 inch 6 point at about 20 feet, and never even reached for my rifle. The 7th year, it exploded! I spent 34 straight days on the stand, and say about 18 different bucks... The best of which was a 21 inch, 3 1/2 year old 8 point. He's on my wall, now... It was the last day of my hunt, and he kept looking back over his shoulder... It was 1:30 in the afternoon, on my 34th day of spending all day on the stand, and I shot him... 3 weeks later, a neighbor shot a 25 inch 4 1/2 year old 13 point, and I guess I will ALWAYS wonder if that was what my 8 point kept looking back for...?
I recognize that the place has the potential to produce some great bucks. Not records, probably, but great bucks. My cousin, however, who owns the land, likes to kill state legal deer... I've shown him pictures of great deer, and yet he goes out there and shoots the first legal deer he sees... :/
We have about 6 acres of plots on the place, but... I live 6 hours away, so I don't get to go home and plant them anymore... Hopefully this year, but who knows if I'll have time...
In years past, I planted 6 pear trees on the place, and caged them in.. I pruned them for the first year, but then got where I can't get over there... I know they're still there, but don't even know if they are making fruit....
Sorry for the long "intro."
and then we own "Whitetail Hollow" which is our new 80 acres we now live on. "Home 25" is about 50/50 woods to open areas and I have been doing habitat work on 10 acres of it for about 11 years which is about how long the livestock has been off of it that my dad had. Couldn't really do much with it before that. We purchased our 80 3 years ago this month and living the dream on this fully wooded place. We have taken 4 bucks over 5.5 yrs old off of it in 3 years including my Avatar buck. My specialty is hunting solid woods settings. Have been doing it since I was about 14 yrs of age by myself. Have only killed a few does and young bucks in open areas but have had great success on big/old deer in the timber...
). I also enjoy turkey hunting. 
