wait, just looked again and yes, it is (173 is bandera hwy) Don are you my hippie next door lol?

I would opt to spend my money on planting native forb plants with seeds from Turner Seed Company out of Breckenridge. You can plant a lot of seed for what you will spend on feeders and protein. Might talk to your TPWD biologist and the NRCS agent and see if they could do a prescribed burn then plant the seeds. The NRCS agent might have some better sources for reseed from forb plants that will produce a taproot like most legume plants. They will produce year in and year out with normal rainfall. You can try to do this every year and it will increase the forage base. If the landowner is on board with the idea he might split the cost with you. A lot of these forb plants will also produce flowers during the spring/summer to add some appeal to the landowner from an ascetic point of view. Seeding x amount of acres in various locations will also produce seed sources that birds can move around or rainfall can wash downhill into new areas to seed on it own.

The axis will love you if you start feeding them free choice protein.

Thanks stxranchman I will give them a shout tomorrow also. I am crossing my fingers the land owner goes for the idea. He did tell me a month ago that if I wanted to add a food plot he was all for it, but he keeps most of the property mowed year round so I am not sure if this will be a no go. We will see!

awesome, I owe you a drink for all the helpful information.

also, the hippie neighbors land looks the same way, all the way around her house and from there there isn't much difference in the way the land is. Just clear cut land and millionaire homes. All the cover is in the park. I can't see 2 feet into the cedar thicket.