Done it every way you can think of but most often we kill does early as possible off plots and then the pressure is off. Most of our plots get hunted 4-8 times a season. Killed as many as 5 in one sitting and still had to run deer off getting out. Killed multiple bucks within minutes of killing a doe, with her laying in the field. It’s because they are not pressured. Sitting a field 2-3 times a week KILLS plot observations even if you never pull the trigger. Or you can hunt it very sparingly and shoot every dang time time and it don’t hurt a thing.
And that's with gun ?
Not answering for MBrock but I have been on properties like this. Limit human intrusion into the deer's habitat and it works. Loud bangs don't frighten the deer as much as smelly hunters tromping through their homes every day.
Some of the most consistently productive lands are low pressure and never hunted when conditions are not correct. That in itself limits the number of times hunted. Weeks can go by if the wind is not correct for the property.
I know another property that is crazy, the numbers of deer on the land and the quality is an abnormally. They used to feed heavily, probably some really great genetics and the land is in mostly ag with some crops left for the deer. That takes a ton of money to make that one work.
Both mentioned properties. Kill way more does than bucks as the bucks have to be of the older age classes.
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