Need advice on changing my lease to MLDP

[famousunknown]

Famousunknown, how many acres where you hunting when you received the 10 doe tags?

We have +/-1400. You can go to the management section on the TPWD website and map out your boundaries and they will give you an estimate of how many tags you will get. The number we ended up with was the same as what was estimated.

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[myway]

Typically 2/15. PM Top of Texas I’m sure he would give you all of the specifics.

Sorry looked at my paper work and it is 2/28. I would still PM Top of Texas.

[AntlerCollector]

What county is the property in?

Hardin and Polk. 4,000 acres

[lovemylegacy]

What do you want out of either of the programs?


Well I would like to have a longer doe season. Ours currently is over the Sunday after Thanksgiving. I would personally like to pass on does while the bucks are chasing them in late October and early November. Can't really let them walk now or the doe season will pass by. I also like that I don't have to use a tag off my license, (that's my understanding anyway.). You use the allotted permits instead correct? So the MLD plans allow rifles during October? I'm not a fan of that at all. How much longer are the seasons?

Season starts in Oct-Feb28th. MLD tags must be used first. Any legal weapon can be used.

[lovemylegacy]

I do like the sound of this!

Honesty I was hoping the Harvest Option would have been the way to go. It sounds like they really limit how many tags you get since there isn't a biologist physically coming out there. Would I be able to start either one of the programs this coming season? I won't have a seasons worth of deer surveys by then.

Its better to go with the biologist, you will get more tags, Im thinking the Harvest program is a doe only program and I think you would still be bound by the 13" rule, check me on that. You can apply for either program.

Even if you have to start from MLD1, it is worth it. If you have lease members that will put in the work required, improvements should be out of the roof for a lease of that size.

We are archery only lease so its a little more difficult to reach the quota, but we get really close most years.

[HDWRENCH]

so lets say your in a one buck county does that change anything ?

[floyd80]

What do you want out of either of the programs?


Well I would like to have a longer doe season. Ours currently is over the Sunday after Thanksgiving. I would personally like to pass on does while the bucks are chasing them in late October and early November. Can't really let them walk now or the doe season will pass by. I also like that I don't have to use a tag off my license, (that's my understanding anyway.). You use the allotted permits instead correct? So the MLD plans allow rifles during October? I'm not a fan of that at all. How much longer are the seasons?

Why would you pass on does but wanting more permits for them?

[txwhitetail]

Why would you pass on does but wanting more permits for them?

I’m sure he thinks the more doe he has on the property the more bucks may show up.


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[AntlerCollector]

Why would you pass on does but wanting more permits for them?

I don't want to shoot my does when the bucks are seeking them out. I'd rather them be decoys. Right now the season ends the Sunday after Thanksgiving. With MLD I can shoot them until the end of February.

[lovemylegacy]

so lets say your in a one buck county does that change anything ?

As in what? You kill as many bucks as tags are allowed. It depends on how the lease manager divides up the tags. We have a first come first serve policy, that keeps someone from hoarding a tag.

[jaspermac]

It is a great plan as long as everyone is aware that there is a 100% chance that not alll members will receive a buck tag on a typical east Texas lease. Not everyone can stomach having $2500+ and time wrapped up in something without a buck tag

[ethic1]

It is a great plan as long as everyone is aware that there is a 100% chance that not alll members will receive a buck tag on a typical east Texas lease. Not everyone can stomach having $2500+ and time wrapped up in something without a buck tag

It’s for managing deer. If they can’t stomach it then this type of lease/program is not for them.


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[AntlerCollector]

So do hunters shoot the deer and then come to camp or a designated location where the permits are kept? Do you pass out some to hunters to use? How does it literally work as far as a hunter shooting the deer and me needing to give him the permit? I assume a hunter can't bring the deer to camp without the permit on it. Same as a regular tag right?

[Wits_End]

You bring the deer to camp, you tag it at camp. Tag is signed by hunter and landowner/manager. Dont have to tag in field. Record required information in record book, go on down the road.
Weight, lactation, age, antler size, etc

[ethic1]

All our tags are in the shack and easily available as well as the documentation. Bucks go in the deep freezer till scored.


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