Woodbird

I’d be interested if you decide you want to let someone lease it. You can email me at woodbirdtd@gmail if you want to talk more.

Seconded I seem to always miss out but would love a code to buy a new set in the new Optifade cover.

woodbirdtd@gmail if anyone has an extra code

I’ll make it as simple as it can be. If you are happy with any of those deer and want to shoot them then do so and have a good time. But don’t fool yourself into thinking you’re doing any management by shooting them.

By asking the question I assume you’re wanting to manage your deer herd and shoot bigger deer. You need to give all of those bucks a few more years and if the neighbors shoot them then so be it. If you’re wanting to consistently kill 3 or 4, much less 5+ year old mature bucks then the #1 thing you can control is your trigger finger. I promise you they won’t get any older if you shoot them at 1 or 2.

Eastern Wyoming

Went back and listened and it’s Krenite he mentions.

I used to work with a guy that lives around there he sent that picture to me the other day and then texted me a few days later and said it was confirmed that deer was 1 of 3 bucks that escaped from a high fence two years ago. Apparently there is still one that hasn’t been killed yet. Regardless of where it came from, it was free ranging for 2 years before she killed it.

Where’d she come from? We had to put down our 6 year old male boykin in February due to cancer. My wife and I were just talking yesterday evening about how our 11 year old GSP is slowing down so we’ll probably be getting a pup within the next year. A female boykin is at the top of my list.

Being completely honest with you - as someone who has been there and done that - you’re signing up to buy a good bit of new gear and go on a hiking trip with your bow. You’ll be with a friend and have a good time and see some beautiful country, but the odds are against you to actually kill. If the success rate is 10% then know there are probably a few guys that hunt the unit every year that are killing half of the bulls that get killed in the unit each year. For a random guy to just show up on a hunt like that, the actual success rate will be a fraction of the posted success rate.

With that said, if you think this type of hunt may be something you want to get into then go and get your feet wet and you’ll learn a lot that you can use next year, etc. I made my first hunting trip out west about 5 years ago and have been elk, antelope, or mule deer hunting out west every year since.

If you’re looking to kill something then I’d go to Kentucky and hunt velvet white tails.

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Eastern or western Union? Depending on which side of the parish it is I could maybe get you hooked up with someone to get it cut. And to answer your original question, yes you can make money doing what you’re proposing but you have to have connections and buy off market like you’re doing. It will all depend on the property but instead of clear cutting it, you may be better off either thinning it or not cutting and selling it for more per acre. I’d say most people in the timber business in the area that are buying land for a long term investment give the bare dirt a valuation of around $750/acre. Timber value would then be added on top of that. Without knowing anything about the property, I don’t think you can go wrong at $1k/acre as long as it hasn’t been clear cut in the last 20 years and it has access.

If you can fix it up and make it more attractive for recreational buyers (a couple of food plots and deer stands, good roads, etc) then you could fetch a premium from the recreational buyer.