MLDII flyover yesterday deer count

[Abcdj]

If they flew our place now, 2000 acres they would see about 10 deer maybe. If they flew over our wheat fields in Late December the pilot and counter might crash trying to count them all.

[txwhitetail]

If they flew our place now, 2000 acres they would see about 10 deer maybe. If they flew over our wheat fields in Late December the pilot and counter might crash trying to count them all.

So they all come from the neighbors??? Lol

[jason86]

So they all come from the neighbors??? Lol

It is so green everywhere and if they don't move you won't see them. We have a 12 acre food plot on pasture 1, you will see 40 deer there in one sit. Plus running 6 different feeders with 6-10 deer on them. That's almost double what they counted. That's usaully later in the season and we have already killed a few deer by then.

[txwhitetail]

It is so green everywhere and if they don't move you won't see them. We have a 12 acre food plot on pasture 1, you will see 40 deer there in one sit. Plus running 6 different feeders with 6-10 deer on them. That's almost double what they counted. That's usaully later in the season and we have already killed a few deer by then.

So are you trying to count resident deer or deer coming onto the property to feeders and fields that may not other wise "stay" there?

[Abcdj]

So they all come from the neighbors??? Lol

Yes sir. We border the Waggoner 530000 acres that doesn't hunt much. Our other neighbor is 20000 acres. We have the closest wheat for 15 miles South , North and West.. When the forage dies off its on like nobodies business..

[jason86]

House pasture is pasture 1 and mule creek is pasture 2. in 2015 we did not fly we did a camera survey these are just Aerial numbers

[jason86]

So are you trying to count resident deer or deer coming onto the property to feeders and fields that may not other wise "stay" there?

Resident but I think the helicopter misses a bunch. For instance We are fenced on about a third of our border on pasture one, about another third is dang near open pasture land, and the other third is smaller property that deer would move back and forth on. I don't think we get a ton of "new" deer on that pasture. We only had 3 cameras running before the survey and could easily identify at least 15 different bucks.


Apologies to the OP not trying to hijack thread just trying to get more insight and discussion on survey data

[Brute Killer]

Yes sir. We border the Waggoner 530000 acres that doesn't hunt much. Our other neighbor is 20000 acres. We have the closest wheat for 15 miles South , North and West.. When the forage dies off its on like nobodies business..

Sounds like a nice situation.

[txwhitetail]

House pasture is pasture 1 and mule creek is pasture 2. in 2015 we did not fly we did a camera survey these are just Aerial numbers

Looks like you have some pretty good trends there that mirror conditions.