suburbhunter
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Looks like I need to put up a feeder and build a tower blind!!! 
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dogghr
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And I've been in that tower. Those must be some stupid deer I guess that you are able to shoot. You should show your thickets and it would better explain their narrow racks.
Chipdasqrrl
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You guys are killin’ me! You have some monsters walking around. Some day I hope to get a herd like yours... I know our ground is capable of producing some legendary deer but it’s rare to even see a 3 year old buck. I’d say our 3 year olds usually score 130+
Here’s the 3 1/2 year old that I was after this year (he got shot on the second day of rifle season way West of me)
Eating apples 70 yards away from my comfy box blind
Here’s the 3 1/2 year old that I was after this year (he got shot on the second day of rifle season way West of me)
Eating apples 70 yards away from my comfy box blind
Native Hunter
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I just started my uncle building an identical tower for us on the other small property I own. I think I told you about it and showed you an overhead view. A narrow strip of woods between a field and a bluff that drops off to a creek. When you pass through these parts again on the hog, we can go look at it. I may or may not ever kill a deer there, but the view is going to be a killer for sure. Therapy for the taking.
Jack Terpack
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Every one of us deer hunters could use more than a little therapy once in a while. Or so
my wife says anyhow.
That’s a great picture!You guys are killin’ me! You have some monsters walking around. Some day I hope to get a herd like yours... I know our ground is capable of producing some legendary deer but it’s rare to even see a 3 year old buck. I’d say our 3 year olds usually score 130+
Here’s the 3 1/2 year old that I was after this year (he got shot on the second day of rifle season way West of me)
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Eating apples 70 yards away from my comfy box blind
wbpdeer
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My son is 40 years old and has become an excellent hunter. When he was 10 years old learning how to hunt with a bow the deer hunting world was different. In 30 years it has greatly improved in many ways. Currently Tennessee allows you to kill two bucks and back then we could kill 11 bucks.
So we traveled out of state and hunted public lands in Illinois with a bow. It was great fun but we wanted PY Bucks so tag soup is what you get many times. We have hunted Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Right now we are working on a farm that was logged two years ago and rough in food plots with a D5 Dozier. Our farm has too many does - you see it from the stand and game cameras prove this also. I am at the end of my hunting career but I hope my son gets to kill a B&C on that farm. We would be proud to harvest anything bigger than 155. We had one buck that would have scored in the low 150s that we never tagged.
What I know from seeing Kubota deer and Native Hunter's deer is they have the age structure on their farm that we will be working toward. The cover is on our farm now and we are in a position to add the food. We will have to harvest does over a two or three year period to get things headed toward what Kubota and Steve have harvested.
To our credit, we have a plan that allows the hollows to be the deer sanctuaries and the plots are on higher ground except for one bottom field. We will not have feeders - not allowed in Tennessee. We will have some shooting houses because we like to get young hunters in the sport during juvenile season.
I had as much fun chasing big deer in the Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois as anywhere I have hunted. We stayed too long, partly because we had fun. We hung plenty of bow stands - deer educated us to what was smart and dumb.
Baker - I like the statement that you got hooked when they cut your shirt tale. I was 12 years old in Jackson County, TN toting an old Model 12 Winchester pump with a 30 inch full choke with slugs in a sapling thicket. My dad was on the same farm. I got tired carrying that heavy gun and put my butt on the ground. It was 1965 and buck only. An old alpha doe walked right up on me. I am taking 6 to 8 feet away.
That is the biggest case of buck fever I have ever had. I shook violently and the doe just stared. Finally after some Joe Frazier head bobbing she walked away from the little shaking boy on the ground. It is 53 years later and I still remember that feeling. That was the moment I knew I was hooked.
At our house my mom made us three boys write out our Christmas list. Every year I put on my list, I wanted to go deer hunting with my dad. I lost my dad in 1993 but the memories we made deer hunting are not gone. As long as I live and walk this earth they are with me.
My son is the best hunting buddy I have every had - 30 years we have chased whitetails together. I pray before the lord calls me home we get this farm setup right so our age structure looks close to Kubota and Steve.
My dad was a salty old sort - his motto - Boy it is OK to be a minute or two late to work but if you are going huntin and fishin with me you better be on time!!!
Wayne
So we traveled out of state and hunted public lands in Illinois with a bow. It was great fun but we wanted PY Bucks so tag soup is what you get many times. We have hunted Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Right now we are working on a farm that was logged two years ago and rough in food plots with a D5 Dozier. Our farm has too many does - you see it from the stand and game cameras prove this also. I am at the end of my hunting career but I hope my son gets to kill a B&C on that farm. We would be proud to harvest anything bigger than 155. We had one buck that would have scored in the low 150s that we never tagged.
What I know from seeing Kubota deer and Native Hunter's deer is they have the age structure on their farm that we will be working toward. The cover is on our farm now and we are in a position to add the food. We will have to harvest does over a two or three year period to get things headed toward what Kubota and Steve have harvested.
To our credit, we have a plan that allows the hollows to be the deer sanctuaries and the plots are on higher ground except for one bottom field. We will not have feeders - not allowed in Tennessee. We will have some shooting houses because we like to get young hunters in the sport during juvenile season.
I had as much fun chasing big deer in the Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois as anywhere I have hunted. We stayed too long, partly because we had fun. We hung plenty of bow stands - deer educated us to what was smart and dumb.
Baker - I like the statement that you got hooked when they cut your shirt tale. I was 12 years old in Jackson County, TN toting an old Model 12 Winchester pump with a 30 inch full choke with slugs in a sapling thicket. My dad was on the same farm. I got tired carrying that heavy gun and put my butt on the ground. It was 1965 and buck only. An old alpha doe walked right up on me. I am taking 6 to 8 feet away.
That is the biggest case of buck fever I have ever had. I shook violently and the doe just stared. Finally after some Joe Frazier head bobbing she walked away from the little shaking boy on the ground. It is 53 years later and I still remember that feeling. That was the moment I knew I was hooked.
At our house my mom made us three boys write out our Christmas list. Every year I put on my list, I wanted to go deer hunting with my dad. I lost my dad in 1993 but the memories we made deer hunting are not gone. As long as I live and walk this earth they are with me.
My son is the best hunting buddy I have every had - 30 years we have chased whitetails together. I pray before the lord calls me home we get this farm setup right so our age structure looks close to Kubota and Steve.
My dad was a salty old sort - his motto - Boy it is OK to be a minute or two late to work but if you are going huntin and fishin with me you better be on time!!!
Wayne
Native Hunter
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Wayne, that farm seems like such a great project to be working on now that you are retired. And, doing it with your son just makes it that much more special. My son lives away so we don't get to work much together. I built the blind for two reasons - we could spend quality time hunting together and it was the perfect location on my place.
My dad is close by and I get to work on the farm with him. Even though he is 83, he is still much a man and handy with a chainsaw and tractor. Today he told me he wants to help mow NWSGs this spring. I welcome that, because he has a 15 foot bat wing! We get done a lot faster.
Sorry for the rambling. I just wanted you to know how special I think it is that you and your son are doing this work.
My dad only took me deer hunting on 3 occasions I can recall...my first time we went to a neighbors north of where we lived and sat down in a creek bottom below a huge old oak. My dad told me to keep a lookout and then he fell asleep. I saw another hunter easing past about 1/2 hour later in his red jacket and then about 1/2 hour later a doe walked down into the bottom and I woke my dad asking if we could shoot it...we didn’t get a buck but it was one of the best times I had with him...I was 10...
Chipdasqrrl
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Thanks, i made it the background on my computer for a while.. but ironically the last 3 bucks I set as my background were immediately shot by neighbors when rifle season opened each time
swat1018
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I've been looking for his sheds since 2013, never found a one.
swat1018
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He bedded there most of his life except August - Nov 12, 2017. But, he shed March of 2018 and was on camera regularly. I believe most of his sheds are there somewhere. I have a 60 acre CRP that is a tree planting, and another good sized TSI woodlot that is thick. I treat both areas as sanctuary and rarely enter. I find lots of sheds in the CRP adjacent to foodplots.
swat1018
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I've been a Brees Fan since he was at my Alma Mater, Purdue.
