HB_Hunter
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Since the season is over and the days are short, I thought it would be a good time to get the property tour thread going again. I'll start things off with one of my favorite pictures.
I grew up on the farm and still prefer to spend the majority of my free time on it. As my wife likes to say, the farm is my beach
. It's nice because it's closer to our house than her beach and offers free accommodations and food
.
If I remember correctly, our first legal deer season that I could hunt on the farm was in the early to mid 1990s. Bucks only. The KDFWR did an awesome job restocking, but we just didn't have very many deer. It was huge just to see a track, much less an actual deer. As you can imagine, that wasn't much fun for a teenager. I spent the weekends sitting in the timber with a gun and didn't have much success. I would hunt 4 days a year (total) during gun season and had very little interest other than that. Long story short...a turkey hunting college buddy from OH and a lifelong friend that started shooting 3D got me back into it.
I got my bow in late 2009 and started shooting 3D. My first trail camera soon followed. After I saw there were actually mature bucks there, I was much more motivated to hunt. I read and tried to learn as much as I could about bow hunting and spent the first several years focused on that. I found the QDMA site and got interested in managing the land for deer. I planted my first food plot in 2014 and have been hooked since.
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I grew up on the farm and still prefer to spend the majority of my free time on it. As my wife likes to say, the farm is my beach
If I remember correctly, our first legal deer season that I could hunt on the farm was in the early to mid 1990s. Bucks only. The KDFWR did an awesome job restocking, but we just didn't have very many deer. It was huge just to see a track, much less an actual deer. As you can imagine, that wasn't much fun for a teenager. I spent the weekends sitting in the timber with a gun and didn't have much success. I would hunt 4 days a year (total) during gun season and had very little interest other than that. Long story short...a turkey hunting college buddy from OH and a lifelong friend that started shooting 3D got me back into it.
I got my bow in late 2009 and started shooting 3D. My first trail camera soon followed. After I saw there were actually mature bucks there, I was much more motivated to hunt. I read and tried to learn as much as I could about bow hunting and spent the first several years focused on that. I found the QDMA site and got interested in managing the land for deer. I planted my first food plot in 2014 and have been hooked since.