B. without a shadow of a doubt! Although with 200acres everybody else around you is going to benefit from YOUR HARD WORK and YOUR MONEY!

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if they killed 20 deer off A, and 3 deer off B, i would be checking to see if it was because of population difference or hunter restraint. if A was in a unit L county and B in a unit B county, i take A every time.

You can only kill 3 bucks in unit A. And I believe the limit of does is 4 per archery, and 4 per ML season, correct?

B. without a shadow of a doubt! Although with 200acres everybody else around you is going to benefit from YOUR HARD WORK and YOUR MONEY!

If you're asking, "would I rather hunt well managed land vs non-managed land," then the answer is easy. Obviously the well managed land. I don't understand why anybody would choose A other than to be stubborn and try to disprove what you're trying to prove.

I really wouldn't want to hunt either. I'm not interested in "shoot anything and everything" hunting and I don't want to hunt "mature buck only" property either, especially since the property is only 200 acres.

yes but don't you think that if a group of guys went in there and killed a bunch of deer that it would eventually knock the population back enough that deer sightings would be way down and if the neighbors killed many at all it would just get worse not to mention that if they are killing yearlings chances at mature deer would be almost impossible
i've seen it with my own eyes and have heard hunters say " man this place use to be good but i don't know what happened " i wanted to tell them what the problem was but i held my tongue cause you can't fix stupid therefor it would have done me no good and would have been a waste of my time

You would get kicked off that lease the first year!

Good question. Id say B but that's because I enjoy that type of hunting.
I will say that the personalities of the guys on the lease would be important to me. Ive seen people that take deer hunting so seriously they cant enjoy it.

Either........my reasoning is that with only 200 acres to hunt, what the guys did before you won't matter near as much as what the surrounding people did......obviously, you will be surrounded by other hunters so letting mature deer walk is no guarantee the guys around you will.

Every mature deer that you let walk may not make it another day when other hunters in your area don't manage the same way.

BH

well like i told BSK i should have just let you guys plug in the amount you wanted

until 15 years ago, I too hunted 200-250 acre tracts. Still today, I do hunt small tracts, some less than 100 acres. I do hunt Chaney as well that is 2600 acres. I hunt them all the same way.....if I want to kill the deer I kill it. If I do not, I let it go, regardless of size.......If a deer comes by me that is not what I think is a shooter, I won't shoot regardless what MAY happen to it when it leaves my sight.

I can't control what other people shoot, that's a fact. One other thing that IS fact.......if I don't let it walk, it won't make it to next year regardless of what my neighbor does. It may get shot that same day or soon......OR.....it may NOT go by the neighbors when they are hunting and thusly make it to next season.

Basically, I worry about my area and make choices based on my goals.......nothing else matters to me simply because I can't control it.

now if I could vote for a size limit statewide, I would.......

I know what it's like to watch a deer walk past you and get shot as soon as they cross the line......

BH