I know it's work. Keep doing what your doing though and I bet it will change. I'd expect it to take 1-2 more years for you Jeff to see a noticable difference. That's what it took both Dan and I.

With that said, I think increasing age structure of bucks is going to be very difficult to do on a property ofour size considering the pressure surrounding us (mine is 130acres, Dan's is 160 acres, both surrounded by knuckleheads).We are seeing more mature bucks now than 3-5 years ago, but I'm not sure if that's simply because we are hunting smarter. Hopefully we will see some progress this year though and see some of the countless 2.5's we didn't shoot at for the last several years.

At this point I can only think of one scenario where passing of a specific buck at 2.5 ended up in a definite sighting of him at 3.5+..............and unfortunately that one ended up like this (for those of you who remember this story). I had quite a history with this guy, wish it would have ended differently. [&:]