Help with management
Ok i hunt on a club that is ruffley under 3000 acres. In South carolina, it legal to bait here... We have 3 major fields 2 of which are about the same size at about 20 acres... pretty fertil fields that we plant about 4 acres of corn in each. Then we have a rice field and we plant that with just millet for duck and other wildlife. There is about 5 hunting members and we all pretty much have our stand about 2 to 3 a piece. No of the stands have big area around them to plant a plot any bigger than one half an acre. mostly road sides and at mine a 70 yard long by 20 feet wide plot which has cow peas in it about 2 day after they come up and BAM they are gone. The fields are highly used by deer but they pretty much come out only during the night probably cause the road goes right through the field. I have tried feeder but with no success. the deer will actually aviod it. i dont know why, but u cant keep a pile of corn on the ground a week ... but they wont eat it out of a feeder. Our club rule 3 years ago was 5 points are better next was 6 points the 8 and out side the ears this year. we have deer like this but rarely come out during day light. we are also killing 2 does for every 1 buck . what i am asking is what can we do we are taking care of the doe problem cause they used to dog drive 15 years ago and the rule was"if it is brown it is down" and almost wiped out the population and now the pop is so high that the bucks arnt getting good food. This club doesnt get real high hunting presure but more riding presure and i cant do nothing about that... i dunno know what i even need to ask