Congrats on the new land! That is one of my goals/dreams for once I've retired from the Army and find the job I want and settle down, have my own piece of land to hunt on and work on.
Thanks for the Congrats fellas! The best part of it all is that my 8 year old boy is more excited about it than I am. He asks me every day whether I bought it yet. I'm so happy to have a place of our own that I can pass down to him someday and that he'll pass to his children. I can't wait to start making lifelong memories with him out there. I have a lot of work to do but its the kind of work I enjoy doing. Also the property owners next to me asked if I would like to participate with them on the Oklahoma dept of wildlife deer management program. They have spotlight deer counts to do over the next few weeks and have asked me to come along with them. I practice deer management on the leases I've had and I plan to continue that on my own property but in saying that ill let my son shoot whatever he wants until he decides he wants to wait for something bigger to come along. Ill post some pics from the property this weekend and ill get the feeder and camera going. This is going to be exciting! Also any input from you guys on ideas is welcome. I look forward to hearing your ideas.
I hope to have a little piece of land I can call my own one day too, I'm jealous! Congrats on your purchase and good luck!
Got the camera out last weekend and went back to check it today. Had this big boy show up several nights this past week. Ill be out to get a few pics of the property tomorrow. Ill post em up when I get back.
Wow that's great. Just bought some land and next thing you know you got a nice buck on cam. Gotta feel good about that.
If 1500 acres is not enough ground to manage a good population with out the neighbors help, they are doing something terribly wrong.
No doubt about it. I knew there should be some great bucks on the property and now within a week of getting the camera out I got a pic of a good'n. Couldn't be happier.
1500 acres is enough to manage deer without neighbors help to some extent but if you think about it, if all the neighbors do help out on the surrounding...I dunno say 2000 acres, then you go from 1500 to 3500 acres of managed deer that are shared among all the owners who are contributing to the herd quality. Most folks would be a lot happier with the prospect of being able to hunt around 3500 acres of managed deer than the outskirts of 1500. It's not like it's that much of an imposing proposition to leave the "If it's brown its down" mentality behind and to plant a few food plots, set up some mineral stations etc...It generally only makes a landowners hunting better and it's fun to do anyway. Responsible management and giving something back pays dividends for everyone. In decent programs there's never a shortage of deer for meat anyway, there are deer that need culled like poor bucks and does for ratios and of course the mature deer are always on the hit list. Besides stuff like this is a lot of the fun of owning your own property and Oaklabowyer is a great guy and knows what he's doing anyway.
