I'm going to try and explain the management program that is in place on our lease and the surrounding leases as well, this is the same program that is used on many of the Big South Texas ranches that do commercial hunting and guiding.

First off you get the assitance of the state and hire a state biologist to help in getting things going in the right direction. Start off by doing a spotlight sensus and helo servey's to get and idea on just how many doe need to be harvested to get the numbers under control you want your number to be 1 to 1, or 1 buck for every 2 does. Once you get that balance you can concentrate on getting rid of the Trash deer that need to go because of undesired genetic traits , but our biologists tell us not to harvest any cull animal till it's at least 3.5 years old. Target cull animals are any 3.5 year old bucks that are under 8 points, they are considered to be geneneticlly flawed.. does need to be harvested every year starting with doe's that are not breeding and are dry...

Once you get all that done, (it takes a few years) then you will start to see a big difference in your area deer herd, you will see all the fruits of your labor. NOW COMES THE HARD PART!!! you can only harvest trophy animals that are 5.5 or older!! Once they reach that age they will be close to topping out in the headgear dept. it will be normal to see Management deer like slick horned eight points that will score over 130 P/Y if its a 5.5 year old slick eight it need to be harvested and removed from the herd..


Now looking back 5-6 years you will see how it all worked with that big 150 plus P/Y on your wall....

Dang , I almost forgot about foodplot management and range managemnt, thats another story...LOL!! hope this help to explain the trash deer remark...