Originally Posted by hamma
Any of you guys successfully changed a property that may have once had mediocre or terrible hunting?


I took over a lease 5 years ago that had been given up for the previous 3 years, each year. Folks gave it up because they weren’t seeing any deer. The first year was rough but I at least saw deer. The second year my buddy shot a decent 7 point off of it. Last year I shot a good 8 off of it. There’s nothing magical we did, we just reduced pressure by entering the property. The property is setup awful and without doing some big time clearing you are stuck. We just hunted the edges. There was also a lot of trespassing on it because it has a lot of road frontage. It took some time and a willing game warden but that’s just about been stopped. By stopping the trespassing it just further decreased the pressure. Now it’s good for a shooter every year and we have multiple on camera.