Well I would have said it was more until I measured a couple on the hunstand app. I have 24 plots right now. I have 2 that are half an acre, maybe 4 that are 1/3 and the rest are all small. Like planting a logging road. So I would say less than 10 acre's planted. Of that, I have I have 8 on the main road in the property. My 3 biggest fit into that category. Although the largest is maybe 20 or 30 yards off the road. We are supposed to get 2 half acre plots when they cut timber that would be more off the road and closer to the hard wood bottom that runs thru the property. Of my 19 members, there are about 7 that actively hunt, and the rest come infrequently or turkey hunt. I really want them to cut in such a way I can have a couple long straight logging roads I can plant. Like 200 yards long.

The planting position I have taken is lets soil test, lime and fertilze well and get alot of perennial plots going. The whitetail clover and Fusion plots I got established last year have been pounded. So much so that I am not even going to plant peas and beans anymore, just manage clover plots. IN the fall I will overseed those with wheat and brassica's.

I joined this club 3 years ago sight unseen. They only did fall ryegrass planting, so I started with spring peas and beans. Got 1 whitetail clover plot going, and saw how it was used and added more last year. This year I have put clover on nearly all the plots. I use primarily 4 different blends. Whitetail Clover, Fusion, Durana, and Plot Spike. Durana I tried this year. The rest I started last fall. I have also been putting out mineral mix, the kind that has lower numbers of salt and more of the minerals needed for antlers. Usually get it at TS, but I also use some Lucky Buck and I have some whitetail 30-06 mineral and vitimin mix to put out this spring. So my focus has been on getting fields where they are productive and are growing the kinds of forage that benefit the deer. I realize there is plenty to eat in the woods, but there isn't plenty to eat that is 40 % protein. Soil tested 2 seasons ago. I put 24 tons out there. Did most of that myself. First year I used my ATV and a groundhog max, the next year I bought a tractor. I use the ATV to spray now.

So I haven't spent much time scouting or developing area's for me to slip into. Alot of time I find an area and leave it alone until later in the season. I had camera's on two licking branch tree's with a scrape or multiple scrapes under them and this year there were no daytime buck pics. Last year on one especially I had day time pics. But its hard to hunt, because I really need wind out of the south to get to it without having to walk in from the south about 1/4 mile through some thick stuff. I found a new spot this year I need to develop for next season. I still am limited by my torn disk about where I can go.

Before they made me President, I just kind of kept to myself and hunted. I would talk to folks, but as far as sharing, not so much. Last year I saw a ton of deer, but I hunt alot. And I killed more than anyone else. Between me and my oldest son, we have killed the most this year, and I could easily have killed my doe limit. But because of my new role, I haven't. And the benefit is I learned alot about how the deer move thru the property. I probably need to invest in a tree saddle, and learn to use it. That means I will have to adjust my hunting style, and I will probably end up customizing a gun once I try a few of mine, although I think the 450BM AR will be the ticket, if I put a better scope for low light on it.