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JCDEERMAN said:
Awesome deer! It's funny how properties are so different.
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They really arent different.

Universally, does are going to get the best habitat.... and fight for it... period. Now that 'best habitat' can be just a half acre food plot and the surrounding 100y off the plot to rear a fawn... or can be a 10ac plot with 5 does and their fawns squabbling until the fawns get old enough for the doe family groups to bunch back up.

If you are only seeing does on the core of your property... thats just fine... because the bucks will be there in the rut.

If you want a ton of bucks on your place now, you need to kill half your doe population this year, and you will have the bucks next year... but they will leave before the rut (and return after the rut).

Since I dont live in TN and dont get to hunt every day of season, I focus on keeping does and cover for November rut to pull bucks, and the best food sources in the area for all deer late December (especially bucks).

So far this season, I have only seen 3 mature bucks... one of which is prob only 90 inches....

But I have also seen 2 deer over 150in on surrounding properties from the road... and I know they will be on me by November 😀
 
BSK said:
The only thing I can factor is that "good habitat" is now so widespread, it allows bucks into the doe "fawning territories." If the doe population keeps climbing, bucks summering there would probably be forced away.

Honestly, I can see the day when I'm going to have to invite people in to shoot does. We simply don't need any more meat after we kill 3-6 bucks each year (plus we don't want to fool with butchering does).
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Shoot 2 does…earn a buck!
 
ROUGH COUNTRY HUNTER said:
BSK, what's the biggest buck to ever be seen on your place
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I think he pushes the 170 mark. The year that picture was taken, he was 7 1/2 years old, the oldest buck we've ever photographed. He first appeared when he was 4 1/2 and was on the property every year after that, reaching his peak as a 14 or 15-point 7-year-old.
 

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mike243 said:
Any problem hanging a camera high out of reach of somebody just walking through?.
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Not at all. Only downside to high set-up is it usually has to be pointed down, which reduces captures of animals at distance. But best way to not have your cameras seen by deer is a high mounting position.
 

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