When the Hit n Miss Hunting Club formed in the early ‘70s the agricultural land was primarily soybeans. In fact, the property was a quail hunting plantation previously and had not been a deer hunting club. My Grandfather primarily joined due to quail prospects and not deer and turkey believe it or not as he had never even harvested a deer prior to joining. As a side note, and ironically, my Grandfather harvested the first and last buck on the property as the Hit n Miss Huntinh Club. Anyway, there had been relatively very little to no deer hunting pressure on the property prior to the Hit n Miss forming. The combination of soybeans, hardwood bottoms, Black Belt soil, desirable genetics, and very little to no hunting pressure resulted in producing tremendous deer prior to any official, or institutional, “deer management” on the property. In hindsight, the worst management practice implemented during the Hit n Miss Hunting Club era is when bounty hunters were hired by the state to reduce the deer population during the off season. This occurred one year during the late ‘70s, or early ‘80s. Not only were deer killed, or culled, without been properly identified, the Club smelled for months due to all the deer crippled deer that were not retrieved during the process.