Let em go, let em grow.

That is some good deer

If you dont shoot him someone else will

He will be shot this year for sure. I thought it was cool to see what three years did for him.

Ok. That makes me feel better

(Didn't notice the date stamp)

That's a Florida deer. It's a hoss where I hunt.

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One was a young 8 pt. my grandfather's friend was saying leave him alone, but it's only 100 acres and there's a slim chance he makes it until next year. I would hate for someone else to kill it.

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I always find this excuse interesting. Both small and large properties can be managed with success. I only hunt on 160 acres,its all a mindset.

We also found both sides of his sheds this summer.

I've got a lot of cool pictures of last year/this year deer that show what just a year will do...but we are high fenced so its not as cool. If more people understood deer management everyone would benefit.

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If you want to see big ones, you have to let them walk its just that simple.

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They can be junk their first 3 years and in year 4 and 5 just explode into beautiful racks. What a lot of people don't understand is year 5 is the year they are putting the least amount of protein into building their body and the most into their horns. letting deer reach that 5 year mark is prime whenever taking a trophy.

We've been managing our place the last 7 years and each year we get better and better deer along with more and more bucks by just letting them walk and culling out the truly inferior deer.

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I do plant spring plots and put out minerals but that doesn't do as much as just giving a deer some time.

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No but what is does is keep bucks in your area and they feel less pressured. So they get comfortable in your area and they will hang around and grow old.