Well we went up to look at the lease and it look good... saw some deer and tracks its right on the Co.river so i hope its a good area cause we went a head and leased it... seem like a good ol landowner but strict...i like that tho....someone that cares about his place and dont let it get trash out....old school lease but for the most part just common sense is all it takes .......

Again thinks all of you for your advice and help......

Any good info on how to hunt the area would be great!

Shane

Been hunting Brady since the early 80's. I don't expect many trophies either. Below are some pics of my 'culls'










Happy Hunting!

I live about 45 min. from Brady and have family there. If it were me I would take a lease around Brady. There are 1000's of deer. Some of the biggest bucks ive seen were down around Brady.

I hunt in Menard County just south of Brady and yes there are lots of Deer, but we don't have any as big as the pics above

We have nice bucks, but i have not seen anything over 130 in the 6 years i have been hunting there. We only shoot 10 pt or better that appear to be over 4 yrs, so i watch a lot of deer through out the year.

Hey cuzican, I don't mean to knock your management practices, but only shooting 10 pts or better on your lease is probably one of the worst things you can do. After a few years all you are going to have a are a bunch of old mature 6,7,8, and 9pts running around on your lease, and after a while they are going to be the major breeders in your deer herd. If you really want to have big bucks on your place you have to kill the inferior bucks on the property, and shoot as many doe as you can legally kill. Also let the young 10 pts mature, which you said that you are doing .

We learned the hard way on our lease, 10 years ago a 120" deer on our lease was a trophy. Today we are killing mid-140s class deer and it is all due to the fact that we killed as many doe as we legally could, we let the young 10 pts mature, and we took out every inferior buck we could take. JMO