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Freak of Nature
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"Better" is too much of a relative term. Each person will have their own standards.
With that having been said, in my humble opinion, for me it is age of bucks being killed. We try very hard not to shoot young bucks with the exception of youngsters and their first bucks. We are also very fortunate in that all our neighbors have either similar, or even stricter standards.
Money for habitat manipulation would be a distant second.
Last edited by jawbone; 05/13/14 04:10 PM.
Lord, please help us get our nation straightened out.
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Shooting young bucks and not enough summer feeding at the club and pressure. At the house not enough land and everyone around me shooting small bucks.
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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4 point
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I'd like to have a little more open land for plots, other than that , happy, happy, happy. X2
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Lands to thick to hunt and they are nocturnal . Don't feed corn either. Just hunting some very smart deer.
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3 point
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All of those issues were a problem for me until I put up 8 foot high fence,now it's perfect!
Don't judge your life by how many breaths you take but by what takes your breath away.
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All of those issues were a problem for me until I put up 8 foot high fence,now it's perfect! 
It's a sanctuary.
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Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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except when the neighboring bastages cut a hole in the fence......
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Administrator
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Not enough cover for bedding areas.
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
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14 point
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No trigger control is the main problem in the place I just got into. The layout of the land is perfect in many ways though.
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” -- Thomas Jefferson
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10 point
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"Never met a deer that I didn't like" - QDMAV8R
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Checking cameras when they show up on Friday afternoon, throwing corn out all over the place, and then walking the woods when they get out of stand.. Other than that the property is awesome, great soil, corn and soy beans in the summer, plenty of water and cover..
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Dances With Weeds
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Our hunting club is in pretty dang good shape. The one thing that could really make it better though would be better habitat management. Fire has been absent from the property for at least 5 years now and the productivity of the habitat has slowly degraded. The understory is very lacking as a result in many areas. There are a couple pine stands that are over due for thinning as well which also creates the same desert effect on the understory. Not having an adequate understory component present on your property full of forbes, legumes, native grasses, etc... really cuts down on the amount of food/shelter available to all wildlife on your property, including deer, turkey, quail, rabbits, etc..
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"For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul?" .....Mark 8:36
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12 point
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Crimson, i would love to drop a match on our club, but its Alabama Power property, and there's a no fire policy. Even though on APC hunting clubs,where they take clients, they burn every year. I hope to start burning on my farm sometime within the next year.
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Freak of Nature
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Crimson, i would love to drop a match on our club, but its Alabama Power property, and there's a no fire policy. Even though on APC hunting clubs,where they take clients, they burn every year. I hope to start burning on my farm sometime within the next year. Fire good. 
"Why do you ask"?
Too many people spend money they don't have , on things they don't need, to impress people they don't know.
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The absence of row cropping particularly soybeans. http://www.mikehanback.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/8/8/Soybeans-and-Big-BucksAnd not letting buck reach at least 4.5
"The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
" Chuck Sykes is a dictator control freak like Vladimir Putin " WmHunter
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10 point
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#1 is low deer population.
Closely followed by people shooting 2 yr olds and not letting them reach maturity.
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching - even when doing the wrong thing is legal. Aldo Leopold .. (except when it comes to trailer tags)
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Poor soil planted in pines. Better soil planted in soybeans and corn is probably the only thing that would make a substantial difference. Since that is impossible i guess it is about as good as it can be.
If you're gonna be stupid you better be tough.
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Lack of sufficient monetary funds to buy/lease more land.
Lack of sufficient monetary funds for habitat improvements.
Human Pressure (hunting and non hunting).
Time.
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Not being able to manipulate the Property
Can't farm for wildlife as Timber company farms for Pines
Little fields, bad soil, and deer can hide all day long in the small pine timber.
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