Or lack thereof in some cases too. 😂

Serious question:

How do you know how many deer you have on your property?

Always wondered that

Sometimes I sit out there all day and see 10 deer. Sometimes I go out there and see 0

I hunted every day from 11/17-11/26 on 3 different properties

Thigpen Hill SOA, some forever wild property in Dallas county, and my grandfathers property on the Dallas-Perry county line

I never saw a single deer. Neither did my guest I brought with me. He hunted with me on all 3 properties

Are we bad hunters? Maybe...but eventually I would’ve thought one would at least kinda wander by

What y’all make of that?

I don't know , there's a 30ac spot next to ours that I hunted for 30 years and I never killed a deer on it or coming off it . 200 yards away I've killed trucks loads .

I just did what I’ve always done. Tried to hunt acorns dropping close to thick cover. Hell it ain’t rocket science to get some kind of deer in front of you and I couldn’t manage to do it in almost 9 days on 3 different properties in the black belt

Don’t get it at all

Managing deer and not killing does lol😂 now that’s funny

Nightwatchman,,,,, don't know what to say on that one .

Me either brother. Don’t make no sense

Whole bunch of truth in that statement.

I never understood someone not killing a doe because “she might give birth to the next world record”
How do you know you aren’t killing the buck that will sure the next world record?
Like the does are having virgin births. Those same people saying that probably shoot cull bucks too. Talk about not making any sense.

I love shooting and eating does! I'd be happy to help you with your problem JWalker. I won't even charge a management consulting fee lol.

Edit: You could probably make a grand or so leasing doe hunting rights on your land. You just need to make sure they are disciplined hunters who won't shoot your bucks.

We seem to have 50 50 ratio.

We are shooting bucks for meat this year.

Leave the baby makers be.

Well said! Said before! Will be said again!

Me and a buddy bow hunted 2 fields a couple weeks ago.

Between us we saw 24 racked bucks and 25 does.

Do you think we need to shoot every doe we see?

Id be happy if we had nothin but does.. but we aint got nothin but armadillers..let me just complain about havin toooo many deer…wheres my monicle an top hat..

I would be happy as crap with the situation except for the lack of bucks this year. If there were 30 bucks and 30 does, that would be great.

Honestly there's no way we can answer that

Heck I wish we could complain about too many does. We have the opposite problem with property being very buck heavy. I don't see us having much of a rut...gonna be fast and furious.

I had one piece of property that was like that. You better kill your bucks before the rut or it wasn’t gonna happen until they came back home and were back feeding again. Normally when the rut started kicking in all the bucks would leave for a few weeks and what didn’t get shot would come back home. I had another piece like that and it had some of the best rut action but it lasted about two or three days and it was over

This is my first year on the 200 acres I leased. Trying to figure it out before I start shooting. In 3 sits I’ve seen 32 deer. 5 bucks but only 2 racks, both small. Rest does and yearlings. I’m gonna try and take 2 or 3 but being such a small tract, I hate to shoot and blow the place up. One reason I’m seeing a lot of deer is that pressure has historically been really low and I’m trying to keep it that way. I know the rut is screwed up on this place. I had a spotted fawn on camera on April 22nd.