I don't quite understand what your question is, but, since most deer hunters are not "rich", they can't afford to hunt large tracts of land (cost per acre). I don't believe pooling with 30 others hunters to rent a 30 times larger tract (when I am 1/30th of the hunters) gives me a better chance to harvest a deer.

Same thing happened to a buddy of mine out north of Bracketville when he bought 250 acres on the northside of subdivision. He thought since his neighbor was 9,000 acres+ he would have some great hunting even though he was in a subdivision. Managment minded and not shooting anything that walked was he wrong. The neighbor was leased for a company lease and they hunted so hard that he had to HF is place just to have deer to see much less hunt. He had to HF out a 10 acre strip between his HF and the 9,000 acres so they would not shoot across the fence. You are right it sucks but it works both ways.

This is actually why we HF, we have no outside genetics at all but we started to see people spliting and buying 10-20 acres on our fence, putting 3 feeders on the lot as shooting deer as soon as the jump the fence. They obviously had no resident deer as you can see every inch of the lot and were just drawing them off our place with various attractants and scents. Although the state owns the deer We are still the ones feeding them and caring for them all year long IE: water, feed, irrigated fields brush control ect, And when you see someone bring in a 160" deer you have been watching since birth and feeding and bragging about it jumping over the fence and getting shot around town it make you a little mad. So we game fenced on all sides that had these small lots and kept it LF around the rest. Then we just HF the other side of the ranch completely for our exotics.

250 acres HF? Your buddy just quit hunting and went to shooting livestock IMO then.

Are you refering to shooting deer like Grandpa did till they were almost wiped out?

Wouln't that be all hf locations?

Most deer taken up north are taken off of smaller places due to the fact they if you have wooded land it will hold deer. I was told once by a noted wildlife biologist that they midwest has "0" carrying capicity. They can carry way more deer than they can hide. The only limiting factor is wooded land with the food base available under farming. Adding CRP adds bedding cover which means more deer. If Texas had the soils and rainfall to support farmland our hunting landscape would look a lot different.

250 acres HF? Your buddy just quit hunting and went to shooting livestock IMO then.

you probably have a neighbor saying the same thing about your little mickey mouse 400 acres.

Doubtful, we don't hunt it due to our neighbors. Ain't worth putting in the time or effort. And yes, my 400 acres is pretty pitiful when it comes to real ranches, but it is mine. What you got hot rod?

On a better note, I just heard thunder outside!!!!! come on rain!!!!!!!!

there are more deer in texas now than ever. and it isn't because of the sustanance hunter.

you want meat buy a cow.

Good news...but we can't argue about that

Good news...but we can't argue about that

I am going to refer back to the greed and envy post

Doubtful, we don't hunt it due to our neighbors. Ain't worth putting in the time or effort. And yes, my 400 acres is pretty pitiful when it comes to real ranches, but it is mine. What you got hot rod?

txshtnr you would argue about how hard it was raining.