Enjoy your property - get to know your Neighbors and be Neighborly ... I don't know anyone that has land/property that wants to be educated on what to do with their land.
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Originally posted by Honker View PostWe've been fortunate that at least one neighbor was conservation minded and together we've started to influence our other neighbors. It took a couple of years for our family to be accepted by the other established landowners and we've worked towards building friendships.
Change has to start somewhere.
Set your expectations low so the letdown won't be as painful.
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If you are on a lease and one gun is hunting 3-400 acres and you move to a situation where it is one gun (probably more) per 50 acres than imagine a 4k acre lease with well over 100 guns on it. There just isnt a scenario where you can properly manage that unless a lot of your neighbors are not hunting. It could be done but basically you would have to get around 100 neighbors to stop hunting for 4 years to get maturity built up. Then due to population density per acre of that area the majority of hunters would have to agree to not take any deer at all most years so that only mature bucks are harvested. a 4k area is not going to produce year to year 100 plus mature bucks. 40 acres per buck is just not going to happen with free range wild deer.
If you are going to have small acreage you need a feeder source for animals. State and National Forests, 2-5 acre tract neighborhoods, golf courses, and major water ways. Buy along this or forget about mature deer.
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I'm not saying your intentions are not good, but the optics of some guy from Katy buying 50 acres next to me to shoot and ATV around on all off-season, then trying to talk about deer management is not great. I don't think you intend to have a condescending tone so many of the comments you are getting here may be unwarranted. My best advice would be to get to know your neighbors and what their hunting goals are. If you think that can mesh with yours then great. If not just communicate what you intend to do and hope they join in with your vision at some point. We have a neighbor with completely different goals but we maintain a great relationship regardless. Over the years he has adopted some of our mindset.
All that being said, 50-100 acres is nearly impossible to manage unless you have large neighbors doing the same. Good luck and just try to have realistic expectations with whatever land you buy. Good luck.
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You could try to get them to join a management Coop, but unless every property around you is on board its basically futile. We have neighbors that "agree" to only take mature bucks, but when a 140" 3 or 4 year old jumps the fence they lose their minds and can't pull the trigger fast enough. We still get a few that make it every year, so I can't complain too much, but I'd love to see what it would be like if they all made it to maturity.
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Ive tried more than once with zero luck. People have their own ideas and are going to do what they want. My neighbors consist of "i aint never shot a doe in my life", "we come up at thanksgiving and christmas and "manage" to get a few", "we shoot anything outside the ears", and "screw them antler restrictions, I dont shoot nothing unless its a B&C or one of those "messed up bucks". I'm thinking the last guy is the culprit to why we have nothing but a ton of generic 8 points. People will rationalize whatever is needed to do what the want.
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I have 130 acres. My neighbors have about the same with a few much larger tracts. We are behind a gate and are all friends.
We got with one another and have about 80% on board with a good program. It's worked out great.
Had 3 axis show up, and now it's around 50 a few years later. We all agree to let them walk for a few years. So it can work. Most land owners want what's best for the herd and property from what I can see.
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