So I started with a 3 acre thicket on a five acre property with my home on it, I decided to prove to myself and others that you don't need a million acres to get a deer down. So I took the 3 acres and bushhogged a acre down planted my first food plotalfalfa with a mineral block and a few mowed trails with the riding mower and I took about ten house one day to build a box blind outta pallets that I posted earlier in the year. Do to everyone with little property with some hard work and planted food this is what I've got! my hopes and prayers are for me to stick one of these big boys and take down my first buck on my first foodplot on a 3 acre property!!!! Stay tuned this season and let's see what happens !! Mike4christ
They are some great bucks Mike. And just a fyi if you plug your phone into your USB on your laptop or PC you can open your dcim folder and drop a copy of and camera pics and they will be allot cleaner
Yeah but you have a million acres around you. I don't know why people think you have to own it, the deer don't give a crap who owns the property. Some of the most fortunate hunters in the world have a small acre honey hole surrounded by good land managers that do the majority of the work growing deer for them. It's not that hard to draw deer off their properties to get a shot at them.
Bingo all though the farm is 80 acres unless I am going to stand in the middle of a cut corn field I really only have less than 7 acres to really hunt Red box is huntable anyway back on subject good luck I hope you stick one! looking forward to updates
Mike I wish you luck and a little advice. As much as you want to hunt you can't over hunt. Access and egress as close as undetected as possible.
I agree. I use to hunt only large farms. Over time it has been harder to get access. I have switched to non- farm small parcels surrounded by crops. Some of my best spots are now under 25 acres. The key is to have several if not more of these smaller parcels to hunt.
Or, just good habitat around your property. There are only two of us that do any type of land management around us. I own 40 acres and he owns 60. The rest is just good agricultural land with some decent terrain that is advantageous to us.
Good land management in general I consider good passive deer management. Even better if the owners limit deer hunting and access.
It's just myself and brother in law who is aloud to step foot in there and we won't take small bucks out either Mike4christ
Well I was actually still talking about the surrounding habitat (neighbors) around a small huntable plot of land but it also holds true for the small tract that's being hunted. Taking small bucks could conceivably be warranted as long as they are mature bucks. I still think managing by age structure is far better than size of the deer. If by "small" you mean young, then I'd fully agree. Of course as a disclaimer, hunting doesn't have to be all about management strategies and whatnot...some people just want to hunt and take home some meat and not bother with all the strategy mess and that's fine too. It's just that personally I find I get bored with simple hunting so the management part of it is what still gives me the buzz.
I see what you're saying. We are just now on the beginning is keeping track of what bucks come in and out who stays around it's definently a challenge that's fore sure as of surroundings my property is the tiny rectangle in the bottom left corner lol small thicket on a tree line. Mike4christ
Looks like a spot I'd like to be. Deer like to focus on cover when there's a lack of it. Fence lines, small islands of thickets, etc...are all great places to focus for ambush style hunting. Many parts of the country have the exact opposite scenario, woulds of cover but shortage of ag food sources. Here we are far more brushy terrain than crops.
