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beartracker
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I Let Him Go
beartracker
Senior MemberPosts: 3,116 Senior Member
Well, I let this one go and two other bucks, because I have already taken a buck the size of the one in the picture. I saw 7 does, three bucks. The three bucks were a five point, 6 point and what would have been an 8 point, but one side was gone and must have been broken off in a fight. You can take three bucks a year and three does a day in TN but I already had some meat in the freezer from the first day hunt in Mississippi and I want a big one. So outside of having fun and taking some cool pictures below, I came up empty of horns but was not empty of a good time.
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Jerry
Teach, I corrected it, and yes it is 3 bucks a year and 3 does a day. I was just south of Centerville, TN on a business trip and got to hunt two days in between meetings.
Recoil is how you know primer ignition is complete.
I wouldn't hit my head against that wall to many more times :buff2::tooth::jester:
When the doe took off I did a grunt call and held the buck for a moment just to see if he would pause. Was a lot of fun knowing I could get him to pause.
"The Un-Tactical"
See the small hardwood scrub areas? The next to the last photo is a good example. You can either bush hog or use a chainsaw and cut these small 1 to 3 inch scrub hardwoods down then fertilize with a high blend of commercial fertilizer, 13-13-13 or a custom blend of 17-17-17 is even better, in the very early spring through mid-summer. a rate of about 3-4 hundred pounds per acre will work fine. Also, any mature mast producing Oak Trees, especially those in the White Oak group that are in the area, fertilize these too at a rate of about one 8 ounce cup for every inch of diameter of the tree about 4-5 feet from the ground. Broadcast the fertilizer from the trunk out to as far as the limbs grow all around the tree. I promise you on a stack of bibles (:tooth:) the deer will come straight to these areas and browse the tender young fertilized scrub oak down to virtually nothing! And when the acorns start to drop they will pass up unfertilized oak mast and go straight to those that were fertilized. This is also an excellent way to get as much potassium as possible into the buck's systems for increased mass in the antlers. Not more points, now, but heavier mass and size and spread! Don't expect miracles in antler size increases in one year, but you'll notice it definately by the 2nd and 3rd year if you'll do this every year. (Normally I charge a pretty good fee for wildlife management advice like this, but since we're all "Buddies", don't worry about sending me big bucks....just send me a box of ammo for my '03 or my 98k's :rotflmao:)
As usual, awesome photos!! You have a talent, sir!! Sometimes that's the best part of the hunt!!
That's it no snow on the ground so I passed, to hard to drag :jester:
I hear ya
Or as I like to say, I still like to hunt, I'm just not as mad at them as I used to be.
Recoil is how you know primer ignition is complete.
AKA: Former Founding Member
This year they let out 800 various tags. and some nice elk taken by gun and bow...