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Old 05-31-2011, 09:32 AM
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Mojotex
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I hunt with a group of 14 others on 3150 acres of pine plantation of various ages that also has excellent acorn bearing hardwoods along the many streamside management zones and plenty of browse along side our many, many miles of mowed woods roads and under the patches of the older pines. Very good deer habitat for SE Alabama.

We are not a "trophy club" as such. Our gentlemen's agreement is "mature bucks". We also try for a minimum of 5 does/each membership. This has worked great over the many years that I have been with this group. We seldom kill any buck less than a 165#, 8 pt. I realize a 165# -er is probably only a 3 - 3 1/2 year old, but that's Ok with us. One season one of the guys killed a 234#, 6 pt. (a 5x1). We usually bring in 3-4 nice bucks each year and certainly have plenty of freezer meat from the does. Last year we bagged 3 super bucks, including a fine 10 pt. that green scored right under 170. Five of the bucks we took scale-weighed over 200#. We average about 2 bucks each and we usually end up killing 2-4 "oops bucks" (button heads) shot for does. We have stayed right around 70 +/- does since 2002. Lowest number that I can recall was about 65. Last season we were took just over 80 does. Our bag agreement has resulted in keeping the club a fun place to hunt.

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