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Old 01-12-2004, 12:03 PM
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bobo21
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Default RE: baiting deer

I have hunted a piece of land for 6 years now. In 5 years only one 8 and 6 point and a few does was harvested between 3 hunters. Last year we bought 3 new feeders for three different stands, we fed with corn year round and every time we were hunting we spread Alph Alpha and Sweet Feed. This hunting season. We 4 hunters, have harvested 1 hog, 5 Axis does, 1 axis buck, 2 whitetail does, 4 whitetail bucks, one chocolate fallow and one aoudad.

We also started using cameras and have seen several hundred harvestable animals. They could have all been duplicates but the sightings and this season has been vary generous.

Call it what you will but the feeders have done their job as for meat goes all of the deer I harvest are trophies however the few 100 calss bucks that were shot this year could have been left alone a year or two, but there are more hunters in west texas free range than you could believe. If we didnt tag them someone else would have.
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