I moved 2 trail cameras and both my feeders to Greenfield's after the season. I am not seeing drastic greenfield use. I am seeing 2 or 3 deer. A night. One isn't seeing much action at all. Even with a feeder there. All the fields I looked at showing use, but the ones showing a lot of use always do.
There are certain things it doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out and this is one. The state has allowed the wholesale slaughter of the doe population. It's gone on for years and it's becoming very obvious. On the last 10 years I have been in two different clubs in Shelby county and I have observed I decreasing number of doe sightings in person and on camera.
Y’all also have 19 people hunting 1100 acres according to what you posted in a previous post if my memory is right. Not really an ideal situation for deer numbers to flourish. And definitely not a situation to base the rest of the state after!!!
I have 19 members. Not all of them hunted. Even so, you can attempt to dismiss what I am saying I see all you want, but I'm on the property most of the year working. I'm not basing the state off my lease either. What I am saying is you cannot have a daily doe limit and a 3 buck per season limit and not adversely affect the deer population. And what I see tends to indicate that, and I've seen it on two different properties. And I'm not the only person who has spoken up and said the same thing.
I will guarantee you one thing. If you knew nothing of my lease and were looking for one, and I brought you out there, you would not drive around and look at my fields and think anything other than it was a good property. Yes it has areas that need to be thinned or cut, but lots of good fields that are being used.
Your club isn’t in an area that’s ever had very high deer density. It has been hunted hard for years by everyone on Joinertown road. You are wanting to create a deer utopia on land that’s never held many deer even in the best of times. I don’t need the state limiting anything right now. They already limit enough. The only change I’d like to see is the abolishment of the CAB. Allow people to hunt the way they want. You wanna kill a bunch of does then kill em. If you wanna let em walk then let em walk. If you wanna kill every young racked buck to grow your doe population then I think that’s exactly what you should be able to do. I just don’t want or need any more of Chuckies rules.
