Need help brothers and sisters of the green screen.
I'm failing as an east Texas hunter / land manager; I learned a lot and applied it very successfully on our large south/west Texas lease but this small east Texas place I bought is kicking my tail. I know I may just need to be patient and wait for my plan to produce but based on my cameras (feeders, food plots, scrapes and rubs) I feel like the place is worse than when I started, literally thousands of $ spent and hundreds of man/equipment hours later. Very frustrating!
2015:
I had a 9 to 1 buck to doe ratio on our place.
I had 4 regular shooters in the 130-140 class 5+ yo and a lot of young potential bucks in 2015.
2018:
Now no shooters, only young guys and my potential has gone down (as if, my good genetics left and crappy genetics replaced it)
We have taken 7 hogs off place and one scrub buck last year. Before that I only worked it and left it alone.
One neighbor hunts - shoots only hair and could care less about horns but only takes 1 doe per year. The road gets 2-3 per year in my general area. No sign of illness in my herd. A lot of twins last two years. Coyotes and bobcats are minimal. Pigs are frequent but not in high numbers and have appeared to affect the deer population.
43 acres - hardwoods - primary oaks (lots of acorns usually but not this year)
3 Corn feeders spin cast (year round)
2 protein gravity feed (year round)
1 one acre food plot (odd shaped with structure inside the plot)
2 half acre food plots (" ")
2 acre pond (spring fed)
3 acres where house is at is mowed but the rest is hardwood with senderos and foodplots. We intentionally created pathways but have done our best to leave the natural appearance to the property. Lots of fawning areas, only myself and occasionally my father hunting. We are very mindful of our impact anytime we are there.
Parts of the place flood but maybe 10-15% of total land in real bad weather.
Place was not hunted before we bought it in late 2014/early 2015.
Any suggestions I'd really appreciate.
I'm failing as an east Texas hunter / land manager; I learned a lot and applied it very successfully on our large south/west Texas lease but this small east Texas place I bought is kicking my tail. I know I may just need to be patient and wait for my plan to produce but based on my cameras (feeders, food plots, scrapes and rubs) I feel like the place is worse than when I started, literally thousands of $ spent and hundreds of man/equipment hours later. Very frustrating!
2015:
I had a 9 to 1 buck to doe ratio on our place.
I had 4 regular shooters in the 130-140 class 5+ yo and a lot of young potential bucks in 2015.
2018:
Now no shooters, only young guys and my potential has gone down (as if, my good genetics left and crappy genetics replaced it)
We have taken 7 hogs off place and one scrub buck last year. Before that I only worked it and left it alone.
One neighbor hunts - shoots only hair and could care less about horns but only takes 1 doe per year. The road gets 2-3 per year in my general area. No sign of illness in my herd. A lot of twins last two years. Coyotes and bobcats are minimal. Pigs are frequent but not in high numbers and have appeared to affect the deer population.
43 acres - hardwoods - primary oaks (lots of acorns usually but not this year)
3 Corn feeders spin cast (year round)
2 protein gravity feed (year round)
1 one acre food plot (odd shaped with structure inside the plot)
2 half acre food plots (" ")
2 acre pond (spring fed)
3 acres where house is at is mowed but the rest is hardwood with senderos and foodplots. We intentionally created pathways but have done our best to leave the natural appearance to the property. Lots of fawning areas, only myself and occasionally my father hunting. We are very mindful of our impact anytime we are there.
Parts of the place flood but maybe 10-15% of total land in real bad weather.
Place was not hunted before we bought it in late 2014/early 2015.
Any suggestions I'd really appreciate.
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