Both were getting better and better all the time.

My favorite farm is 20 acres surrounded by a highway on one side and a river/creek on another....It is a thick tangled mess where they bed in the middle, and great funnels on two corners....a Deer Magnet....Over the past 4 years I have seen 4 different bucks that easily top 140-150. Missed one with the muzzleloader and couldnt pull off a shot on another during rifle two years back that was a big NT. I think it was the deer my neighbor killed that went 195 and change.[:@] With neighbors learning of the potential and encroaching in, it is getting worse and worse. One farm is a brown=down philosophy and invites a HUGE group of friends from Alabama for the slaughter, they have really hurt the quality deer here. All the other neighbors are on the same page as me though. This year the farm is completely underwater due to beavers on neighboring property, and deer hunting is out all together.[:-]

We picked up a new farm last year and through scouting found a bachelor group of 4 bucks, all P&Y quality. Never got one in range during season, but my buddy did. He killed one rifle season from 15 yards on the ground chasing a doe not 150 yards from where I was bowhunting. 11 pointer, not sure of score. Once the landowner found out about the potential, my buddys uncle mind you, he proceeded to lease out the hunting rights this year.



So flooded timber and leasing rights cut me out of my prime spots....I feel like a lost dog now, don't know where to go.[]