I’ve owned my property for 16 years. We didn’t shoot hardly anything the first 10 except does and one 5-6 yr old 8 I killed and a 4-5 yr old 6. We had a bunch of property no one hunted around us and the ones who did either shot everything or just big deer. I watched a deer on camera at 3.5 as a 100” 10 then a 140” 10 then a 150plus. That was 2017 last year and he died in 2019 I was told. Since the biggest deer I’ve had on camera is a 125-130” 8 y’all saw I killed this year. More neighbors hunting most will shoot a 3.5 yr old. I let a split g2 10 walk 3 years ago as an either stud 2yr old or a good 3yr old to be never seen again. At that point I quit trying to raise big deer on small acreage. We let lots of bucks walk but know a neighbor is highly likely to kill them. Now I spend hundreds of hrs making my property as good as possible to hope I can save one or two. I let my 12 yr old daughter shoot a 2.5 yr old 8 last yr but she hunted hard and I won’t regret it. I have nothing to shoot this yr and likely won’t next but I’m gonna try.

Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!