I was wondering if anybody knows of a GREAT website, magazine, or book that goes into EXTREME detail on ALL the points of TROPHY management for whitetailed deer. I have property here in southwestern Pennsylvania and it has a good number of big bucks. Alt is starting to manage the herd so that it will be healtier and so that we will have bigger bucks. I want to try and help out the herd on my land even more. I want to try and use the philosophy of trophy management on my property.

Here is what I do already.

1. My friends, family, and I try to harvest as many does as we can legally do during early archery season.
2. We try to pass on smaller deer. My standards as of right now are a high 120-low 130 class buck.

Here is what I plan on doing this year.

1. Planting a 3 acre ALL YEAR food plot.
2. Raising standards on bucks.
3. Try to harvest even more does.
4. Imporve habitat.

What else can I do to get TRULY MAGNIFICENT bucks on the land. The largest non-typical that I have ever seen probablly was a 180 class 17 pointer. The largest typical I have ever seen on the land was a 16 point that probablly would have been close to 200". The next biggest deer I have seen to these is a 153" nontypical twelve point. A few 130 class 10 points. A 130 class 8 point, and lots of 110" 7 and 8 points.

Good Luck This Season: Buck Magnet
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