I moved to my farm 5 years ago. I've hunted it for 30+ years but it was never really all that much fun. You could hunt an entire season and never see a cracked buck except occasionally during rut. My adjoining properties are a mix of pine plantations and small family farms that consist of green fields and pines. 1/2 of my property lines anoint very well managed recreational properties that have been under the same ownership for 50+ yrs. Another 1/4 is road frontage and all that goes along with that in Walker county. The final 1/4 joins relatives land that gor as long as I can remember have killed every deer they saw with a horn on its head and to my knowledge, have never shot a doe.

Since moving here, we aggressively killed does for 3 yrs. Killed about 30. Last year we began seeing our mature buck population grow and this year it looks even better. I've hunted for the last 4 days and have seen deer every sit. Does and bucks, every sit.