Oh I agree. We had just a few hundred shy of 5,000 acres and I thought we needed more. I knew all the places killing out 2.5 yr old 8s were definitely benefitting.
I do recall an odd 6 point that had an almost 25” spread and almost 30” main beams with 5.5 inch bases that carried the mass all the way out. One of the new members saw him the afternoon before on the back of the club and let him walk since he wasn’t an 8. Deer was 5.5 or 6.5 yr old and he could’ve killed it. A kid named CJ killed it the next afternoon in the front. Almost 8 miles as the crow flies. That was a distance traveled during the rut. Knew of another buck that came from across the road and circled thru out front and back across the road in a weeks time. Sis it a few years in a row at night, some of the outlaws still tried shooting him and may have crippled him a killed him and not know it.
