ARE THE BEST DEER HUNTING DAYS BEHIND US???? FOOD PLOTS, TSI, FSI 

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Awesome video, you know you're stuff.

Wes....are are EXACTLY correct. We have to continue to manage small areas of our woods and open them up in small pockets and allow light to come in and form brushy cover. We continue to work on this yearly and cut smaller scrub trees that start to shade out the undercover. Great subject, don't just work on your food plots, but also continue to work on improving your habitat. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Bob

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Excellent subject Wes. Totally agree with you.

Agreed 💯% ! Before the tornado 1 year ago my property was a mature hardwood and pine property. Absolutely beautiful place but an absolute desert for an animal to try and find food. You could see 200 yards or more in places . We've always had a good deer population. Watching your videos and following your advice over the last year ive went in and made a maze of trails , beds and samll openings . I can already tell you that in the coming years this property is gonna be an absolute blast to hunt ! More sign than i e ever seen already. You said you don't think it can ever get to thick for a deer , now im a believer! I know its a neverending project but i believe in ten years time we're gonna see bucks that we didn't think were possible just because of the nutrition they will now get that they never had . Thanks for the videos they've helped me tremendously!!

Also in the 80’s in Georgia, people were incentivized to plant trees mostly pine trees.

Your alfalfa is looking g good! My 1/2 acre Alfalfa is just now growing more than the deer eat! They are in it everyday eating!

Good points. I need to do more of this. Our Crp practices have produced a wonderful prairie, but for deer you need these thickets. Our neighbors on 3 sides have logged over the last say 12 years or so and it made a positive impact on our hunting…we really have to stay on top of doe numbers more than ever and take somewhere around 10 a year. I have around 35 acres of the farm we are considering logging in the next 5 years. Lots of walnut we may use for retirement funds. It’s amazing to see how open ground turns to timber. Even after our burns on the prairie there will be hundreds of young trees that get killed-every other year or so.

Exactly why you see across the US the best deer quality and deer size next to large ag fields especially soybeans.

Been twelve days, you still in business? Hope all is well

I agree about the farmlands. It is also happening in large forests as well. I live near the Allagash wilderness and what we see is thousands of acres of mixed forest being clear cut and then replanted in a “useless to animals” monoculture of all Black Spruce trees. So there goes all the Maple, Birch, Beech browse from seedlings as freshly fallen leaves, briars, and food like Beech nuts. So even our forests are becoming deer deserts. I will add that this new internet age of people feeling shamed for everything they kill that isn’t a 7.5 yr old 170” buck isn’t helping. 20-30 years ago if a guy shot a basket rack 8 point 2.5 yr old buck with archery gear, he was the man. Now that same deer will get you blasted off the planet by even people who just started hunting and maybe have one or two deer kills. Big deer were occasionally killed years ago, but hunters weren’t so fussy. I see thousands of posts on social media where a guy has a picture of several does and a couple mid size bucks and everyone pipes in with the Give it 2 more years, and on and on. So we do have deer, they don’t meet modern standards of being an old book buck. I see people with 170” deer that are legit Booners and people still bash them and say, he was only 4.5 you should have given him another 1 or 2 years and he might have been a 200. Weird times.

As a Deer Outfitter, do you think your outfitter deer hunting is better now or a very real struggle to improve it and keep it from declining year to year?

There is more involved than you mentioned game and fish doing everything they can to wipe out deer herds. Group telling guys to chop and hing cut and leave down timber every where do you can't go there with a brush hog and reset saplings back. Alot of the so called deer specialist are teach things that eliminate the ability to keep the bedding young and suitable. Big the biggest problem is game and fish here they have wiped out the wild turkeys and have set bag limits so high in one year if hunters to limits deer season would be gone for years. They wiped the turkey and quail out with trapping limits on nest predators

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