Aldeer.com Forums Alabama Deer Talk Serious Deer Talk Forum Are your buck numbers off this year?

I completely understand and I know it sucks!! My whole thing is this is nothing new. As far as our place, we’ve all but did away with cameras to cut back on all the running around and really have no idea what we have this season. We are the big land guys in our area but we have reasonable expectations because we know that we have no way of keeping the deer from crossing the property lines. And the neighbors, I have no idea what they are doing and not really worried about it because I can’t control that. In my world I worry about things I can control. If the deer are leaving the big properties to go to the small property, there’s only a few things that can be done to stop this. Bigger bait piles, buy the small properties out or fences. Or maybe they should try to work with the neighbors and come up with some kind of plan and try to work together. Problem is not everyone is a trophy hunter. Some people are deer hunters and some people are deer killers. I’ve evolved from a deer killer to a deer hunter. I haven’t made it to a full on trophy hunter yet. Do I like killing big old bucks? Heck ya!! I have a house full of them but I also will shoot any buck that makes me happy at the time. It may not be one for the wall but it won’t be 2year old 6pt either unless that’s the only deer I’ve seen all season. That’s never happened. Here at the house I own the only 35ac piece of property in the middle of a 6000 acre rice farm. Guess what!! I have a big corn pile in my back field to pull deer off that big farm. We’ve only killed 3 bucks in that field in the last 10yrs. Simply because the guys that hunt the big farm and I know what we want to kill and little deer is not it. But if a deer steps on to my property and I want to shoot it that’s my choice. I really hate it for the big landowner’s that can’t accomplish what they want but maybe in time the small guys will change their ways. But it’s been said on here many times and we know it’s true. It takes a very large tract of land of cooperations with neighbors to be able to accomplish those goals. 500-1000ac ain’t enough. We have 900ac in one chunk where the camp is and we will see the same deer at at opposite ends of the property in the same day when they are roaming. Heck we will see the same deer on the off property we have a few miles down the road. If you can’t control the deer, the only other option is to try to control the neighbors. And you and I both know most times that won’t happen.