Provide something better than your neighbors have. Food ,water and cover. Then leave them alone till you can slip in and kill one. Big difference between owning and leasing. We lease 98 acres and we own 55 acres of hills and draws that we select cut 8 years ago, and let it grow up in sage and briars. We keep a few roads mowed and do a few small burns. most of our stands are on the fire breaks around the edges. Only hunted once this season We have a 15 acre tract that crosses a big creek with cane breaks, beaver dams, and cypress trees. Just hunt crossings here. This one not hunted in 2 years. Most of my hunting is on the lease. Different land all together, land is mostly all flat in pine plantation, with 2 one acre plots with spin feeders, and 1 spin feeder along a large hardwood bottom that runs the length of the property. I have another feeder in the edge of a cane break next to a beaver pond. This is the hottest spot on the lease. You can bring deer anywhere you want them with corn. The location and how you hunt will determine whether you can draw mature bucks in the daylight or not. Let all the does and young bucks walk. This might not work for everyone, but it works very well for me.

Grandma said...Always keep a gun close at hand, you just never know when you might run across some varmint that needs killing...