Doug shooting a buck every year does impress me, but since I started hunting my own property, shootin a doe or multiples doesn't.

This year we didn't see a buck for three people hunting the first day plus my ten year old grandson, but we only hunted in the morning and evening for a total of six hours. While we were at the house, a Y buck and doe ran pst the stand the son and grsndson were in, within ten yards at 11:38, they showed up on the scouting camera. After the first day I hunted seven evening for two hours, for a total of around 20 hours for the season. My toal deer seen was in the twenties, but I'm sure I saw many of those deer more than once, even though I saw them as singles, three, four, five and one time seven together.

As I was buck hunting each time I went out, I didn't take a doe until 4:50 on the last day.

I could sit in one of my stands watching the field and woods from dawn to dusk each day, might have a seen another deer or two. Our deer here in the farm country have all the food they want, they don't move during the daylight hours when there are any hunters around. On the other hand, your big woods has no cover or feed for the deer, they must move a lot moreto try and get a stomach full of browse.

Now it cost me over a thousand dollars each year, taxes, lost rental income, food plots and equipment, to hunt for a possible buck and harvest a doe each year. But I still feel a hunter should only shoot a buck and a doe when he doesn't harvest a buck, no matter how much he has invested in hunting.

Now i'm restricted to hunting my 12 1/2 acres, with the other fifty some being mostly fields and the woods being in a safety zone. You wouldn't enjoy hunting here and I wouldn't enjoy hunting you big woods. Never wanted to hunt the big woods when there were lots of those stunted deer.