… animal husbandry at it’s finest

Call it what you want lol , need them genetics in your gubmint woods

…. It should be hunting …. Not selective breeding

… everyone trying to be the drury brothers priced most folks out of hunting ground

… a tradition reduced to big money … game cameras … food plots … feeders … and the should of let him grow another year (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) holes

… it is what it is

First one I guess 3.5 and the one in the fog is dead at 4.5.

Selective breeding can lead to good hunting apparently

Sorry side tracking your post Wanna Be

…. It’s good shooting at the foodplot in front of the cell cam is what it is


…. Go on and admit it …. No denying it at this point lol

…. No feed piles, foodplots, cameras or feeders …. Just these beautiful access roads lol

…. Shoot we ain’t worrying about genetics… we’re worried about getting a deer and getting out before a crackhead or a methamphetamine enthusiast breaks into the truck lol

Yep, it is pretty good shooting at the foodplot in front of the cell cam !

…. How much one of them cell cams cost ?

… I may finance one to watch the truck while I’m out actually hunting lol

4 1/2 cases lonestar could get you a camera that’d suit just fine

…. I don’t know if I could go dry that long lol

…. Wannabe… get in here and cuss me up and down

…. I deserve it lol

Sometimes , the faux-Cajun speaks truth.

If I lived in a pine-oak thicket surrounded by thousands of acres of public hunting ground....I'd be just like you Savell...minus the drinking and bar hopping as I have no interest in that.

Closes public land is 20 & 30 miles away and is only open on certain weekends. The areas are small too....a few hundred dred acres and a few thousand.

Uncle Swamp…. I slipped in and climbed over a trail coming out of a thicket into a dropping white oak this evening

… no sooner than I got settled in Bud called saying his truck won’t start…. Even with jumper cables

… climb down … walk out and head towards town… he calls back and said he got it started by cleaning corrosion off the terminals lol

…. Wasted climb … I’m just glad the freezer still fairly full…. Between work and this dang family life I might end up empty lol

Ive got confidence in you. You know where and when to set up in those tickets. You'll kill one or more...

Savell I ain’t gonna cuss you out. I hunted public land for years, lol. I’m lucky as heck to get to hunt where I do and know it! We’re lucky enough to have the acreage to let bucks go and grow and for the most part, surrounded by folks that feel the same. I wouldn’t call it “selective breeding” we’re just giving them the opportunity to grow to maturity. Heck, as many does as we kill we’ve probably taken out umpteen future records, lol. We really just enjoy the pursuit of a mature buck and sometimes we get lucky. This particular buck just had us a little confused.
Yes, I have 2 spots I feed year round. Right now all they want is corn, the majority of the year it’s peanuts and that was mainly to attract any hogs in the area. Killed 33 pigs last year off that spot in that camera and the surrounding ground around it looks like a burial site from all the hog bones. My other spot is among oaks in a drain…another hog hotspot. Deer take advantage of any feed.

We did see the buck in question Sunday evening as he ran 2 three year olds off a HOT doe. His body looks a little bigger in person and that rack was impressive. The rut is tough for shots even with a rifle unless that doe stops!! My son was the shooter and I was just there as eyes. He did pass a huge old 8 for some reason. I would’ve shot that deer with a bow all day long, but it just didn’t excite him for some reason.
The 9 looks 4.5 to me, but the neighbor swears he’s older based on several years of pics even though it’s the first we’ve seen him. I know they’re after him along with one of our hunters. That joker is close to 1.5 miles away from their cameras right now. If my son shoots him that’s fine. If I can get a climber back there and he gives me the opportunity with a bow I might sling an arrow his way!