Same on our lease in Newton.
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We didn't take a single deer off our Newton lease, passed some spikes and a few 4 year old bucks. We didn't shoot any doe because they were MIA most of the season and we weren't sure if they needed a few years to get reestablished. I don't see many fawns but with the amount of young bucks we have our recruitment numbers have to be good.
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I have several theories about why we had such a slow year on my lease. The biggest one is for whatever reason we did not get the usual amount of rainfall and our lease was unusually dry in areas that would normally have standing water. That kept the acorns on the ground from rotting. That coupled with one of the warmest December’s ever which had everything staying green and growing kept the deer from hitting the corn as hard as they usually do, whether it was from a feeder or hand thrown.
No statistical data to back that up just an observation on my part.
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