It was good season for me.
After 25 years of hunting, this is the first year I have ever “tagged out”.
This was my fifth season as lease manager on a low fence place in Val Verde County, and all the work we put into the place is finally paying off. We fed a lot and harvested very few deer the first 4 years, in an attempt to let the country recover from drought.
In the first 4 years I had only killed two deer. One was an older than dirt scrub 8, the other was a pretty nice buck, around 130”.
I would say deer population is about 5 times what it was when we started.
I started the season by killing my biggest aoudad. He was 27” & 28”.
I was able to kill a mature short tined 8 point as a cull the day after Thanksgiving and a tall 10 point as my trophy a couple weeks later. He scored 131 +\- with a broken G4. He would have been closer to 135 if it wasn’t broken. He’s my biggest whitetail to date.
I killed a doe early in the season, and was able to kill a couple more last weekend, which filled my tags. I had never killed a doe on this place, and only one other doe was taken during the season, so I figured I wouldn’t be hurting anything to punch my last couple of tags. We eat a lot of deer meat in our house, and I have some friends and family I usually give some to as well.
Hope 2018-19 is even better! I’m waiting to shoulder mount until I get a low fence 140” or a 30” aoudad.
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After 25 years of hunting, this is the first year I have ever “tagged out”.
This was my fifth season as lease manager on a low fence place in Val Verde County, and all the work we put into the place is finally paying off. We fed a lot and harvested very few deer the first 4 years, in an attempt to let the country recover from drought.
In the first 4 years I had only killed two deer. One was an older than dirt scrub 8, the other was a pretty nice buck, around 130”.
I would say deer population is about 5 times what it was when we started.
I started the season by killing my biggest aoudad. He was 27” & 28”.
I was able to kill a mature short tined 8 point as a cull the day after Thanksgiving and a tall 10 point as my trophy a couple weeks later. He scored 131 +\- with a broken G4. He would have been closer to 135 if it wasn’t broken. He’s my biggest whitetail to date.
I killed a doe early in the season, and was able to kill a couple more last weekend, which filled my tags. I had never killed a doe on this place, and only one other doe was taken during the season, so I figured I wouldn’t be hurting anything to punch my last couple of tags. We eat a lot of deer meat in our house, and I have some friends and family I usually give some to as well.
Hope 2018-19 is even better! I’m waiting to shoulder mount until I get a low fence 140” or a 30” aoudad.
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