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ANYONE still trying to grow Huge NATIVE Low Fence Whitetails???
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Originally posted by Austin View PostI do a lot of culling for a ranch here in the hill country. 100% native genetics age and protein. Year in and year out we have a couple of 160 plus deer and every few years will break the 180 mark
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Originally posted by Mexico View PostMan that is tough that you guys are 20 years in and you've never killed a trophy. What are your neighbors like? Any communication with them at all?
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Originally posted by diamond10x View PostIt’s been by choice not taking a trophy more so than anything, we could have all had BC bucks on the wall but just kinda want to get the most out of all of them. Neighbors on east hunt 400 acres and are from Alabama and hunt a week and a half and that’s it all year so you can imagine how that goes haha The west they are high fenced and the north is hunted some but not heavily. I think we’ve built our herd up to now being where we will take a trophy or 2 every year.
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Originally posted by diamond10x View PostIt’s been by choice not taking a trophy more so than anything, we could have all had BC bucks on the wall but just kinda want to get the most out of all of them. Neighbors on east hunt 400 acres and are from Alabama and hunt a week and a half and that’s it all year so you can imagine how that goes haha The west they are high fenced and the north is hunted some but not heavily. I think we’ve built our herd up to now being where we will take a trophy or 2 every year.
That's what I'd really like to accomplish myself, if we could take one trophy (160 plus) every year or 2 I'd be ecstatic!
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The property is about 1900 acres high fenced. I will also say for about the last 8 years more of the big bucks have died from old age than from us. Typically do not harvest more than one trophy a year.
Culls are never younger than 4.5 and typically 5.5 plus with most trophy’s being harvested at 8.5 we will typically have them on our radar for three or four years before hunting them
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Originally posted by Mexico View PostOr is it a thing of the past? I've noticed more and more huge whitetails that are posted on social media or TBH are high fence introduced genetics. Now before anyone gets their panties wound up I have no issues with high fence deer, heck I've hunted them. But to me personally a low fence giant is the cream of the crop...
And I realize there's a huge difference in growing native and introduced genetic high fence deer.
What you’re seeing online this time of year is not new. The outfitters that released bucks in September have to kill them now because they die in a natural habitat. Most of the 300”+ bucks will be dead by the end of the month and posted online or entered in deer contests.
High fenced native deer are SOL in deer contests because of the “pasture born” bucks. [emoji17]
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Originally posted by Peyton View PostWhat you’re seeing online this time of year is not new. The outfitters that released bucks in September have to kill them now because they die in a natural habitat. Most of the 300”+ bucks will be dead by the end of the month and posted online or entered in deer contests.
High fenced native deer are SOL in deer contests because of the “pasture born” bucks. [emoji17]
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Originally posted by Mexico View PostAgree completely, they've ruined the HF contest across the river because they throw those white horned freaks in with the native HF whitetails. It's a joke. Not even worth entering...
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I haven’t entered a contest in 4 years.
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Originally posted by Peyton View PostThe deer inside my fence may not be “cream of the crop”, but I’m happy with them. If we didn’t have 16 Cajuns on 800 acres to the North and a huge commercial ranch to the West and South, I wouldn’t have a fence. I cringe to think what it would be like without it.
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Originally posted by txwhitetail View PostPassing up B&C bucks regularly ??? Interesting with that size ranch and neighbors.
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Originally posted by Mexico View PostI bet them boys from Alabama light it up! Lmao! Sounds like east Texas opening morning?
That's what I'd really like to accomplish myself, if we could take one trophy (160 plus) every year or 2 I'd be ecstatic!
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It’s do able just takes time and patience, I bet you get there. honestly I feel that a lot of Texas it’s not an unrealistic expectation with decent circumstances. My Goal is to one day be in the stand and have a 170 come wandering through. Something about low fence and that 170 number is what I think keeps us from giving up and not high fencing or just saying forget it and not supplement feed.
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