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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5415308" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>This particular farm is a summer haven for bachelor groups of bucks.... has been for years. Not the best habitat, so very few does (although I am in the process of negotiating with the lessee to covert 60 acres of hay ground to soybeans next year with mandatory cover crops of wheat and radishes for the winter). I had already scouted this farm earlier this summer and found the bachelor group and looked them over. 7 bucks, 1 was 4.5 and around 120in, a stud of a 3.5y/o 11 pt with an extra flyer around 135in, and 5 other random various smaller 2.5 and 3.5 y/o's. Nothing I wanted to shoot for the velvet hunt (although I'd kill the 4.5 y/o 120 with a ml/ rifle as my buck of choice without hesitation). But my mistake, I didn't follow up scout, as there is usually just one large bachelor group here. When I came back up, I pulled the card from the camera on a salt lick, didn't even look at the pictures and spent all my time on another farm where I had seen several 4.5y/o's, but never a large bachelor group figuring I had just missed the big group somehow. Didn't realize a second bachelor group of all 4.5y/o was using the original farm until I got home and went through pictures.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately on this particular farm, all the bucks shift approx 1/2 mile to 2 miles south to the timbered hill country early/ mid October. They still drift onto the farm for a day or two during the course of the season, but its very tough to encounter them... until after Jan 1st... they usually come back late season right before close, so I don't expect to really have a chance at this fine buck, unless he makes it to my main farm a couple miles south (which does happen on occasion)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5415308, member: 2805"] This particular farm is a summer haven for bachelor groups of bucks.... has been for years. Not the best habitat, so very few does (although I am in the process of negotiating with the lessee to covert 60 acres of hay ground to soybeans next year with mandatory cover crops of wheat and radishes for the winter). I had already scouted this farm earlier this summer and found the bachelor group and looked them over. 7 bucks, 1 was 4.5 and around 120in, a stud of a 3.5y/o 11 pt with an extra flyer around 135in, and 5 other random various smaller 2.5 and 3.5 y/o's. Nothing I wanted to shoot for the velvet hunt (although I'd kill the 4.5 y/o 120 with a ml/ rifle as my buck of choice without hesitation). But my mistake, I didn't follow up scout, as there is usually just one large bachelor group here. When I came back up, I pulled the card from the camera on a salt lick, didn't even look at the pictures and spent all my time on another farm where I had seen several 4.5y/o's, but never a large bachelor group figuring I had just missed the big group somehow. Didn't realize a second bachelor group of all 4.5y/o was using the original farm until I got home and went through pictures. Unfortunately on this particular farm, all the bucks shift approx 1/2 mile to 2 miles south to the timbered hill country early/ mid October. They still drift onto the farm for a day or two during the course of the season, but its very tough to encounter them... until after Jan 1st... they usually come back late season right before close, so I don't expect to really have a chance at this fine buck, unless he makes it to my main farm a couple miles south (which does happen on occasion) [/QUOTE]
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