Well sunday morning I got my confirmation. The big ten pointer i had been after all season was killed by my neighbor the first week of rifle season. And another 12 pointer killed not long after that.
On a good note maybe they will now see the benefits of QDM. Well i know there is still another good pointer out there and now rifle season is over so the woods can quiet down and i can get back to bowhunting.

Sorry to hear it, but i bet there are just as good, if not better deer out there. Remember, during the rut, the bucks will travel far to find hot does. The two bucks I shot this year had never been seen on my land before. Reason I know, my cousin spent all summer/fall scouting and running trail cams to see what kind of deer were moving on my land. He lives closer to my land and asked if he could do it. I said sure, as long ashe let me know what kind of animals have been moving.

It is tough when you don't have a lot of control over the whole range of your deer. Sunday, the neighbor's property sounded like a war zone for the first hour of the hunting day. Not much I can do about that, except minimize the hunting pressure on my land and hope that the deer take haven there.

So you have land near mine? Lol. Once gun season opens, it sounds like a war all around me. My land is the only quiet stretch there is.