5 bucks, 3 unbranched, and 25 antlerless for me. (Harvest option --------- low fence.)

"There will be blood."

Pulling the trigger is the easy part.

Agreed. This will be my 3rd year in the program. It is work.

We don't get ours until late September.

Sounds like fun!

Looking for people to hunt? Please send me a PM if you need someone to help w feed costs and harvest.

This will be year two for me, conservation option, high fence. Deer spotlight counts go on three weekends in Sept, tags issued late Sept. And yep, it's work once you get the quota.

Curious, what amount of acres is this on? We had 10 bucks, 20 anterless last year on ~2000 acres

You must have some good venison recipes.

Before MLD that was the opening weekend bag for the place….

Probably only the bucks. Last lease I was on in Kendal co was 700-800 acres wasn’t uncommon to have 10-15 bucks hit the ground opening weekend.

Dang...that's a lot of work. Enjoy it.

One of these days I wanna go on one of those massive MLD doe pile ups...I've got buddies that tell the 30-50 doe a day trips.

I'm ready for deer season. Am booking a MLD hunt for late October today. Hope you all have a great season.

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Haven't had a day like that yet, but the buzzards and varmints do seem to enjoy the gut pile.

high rack/top drive, start corning roads every day for month. Then drive around and wack. Most time they will just run off road 30 yards and you can see then from high rack

Got mine yesterday 7 bucks 17 does, but I don't need to kill 17 does, not even close.

High rack would get swept off going under trees. On a side note, before I was born, my family's truck equipment business made some early top-drives for hunting. What a nightmare. We lost our shirt. 'Also made some of the first cut-off Jeepsters, with rifle scabbards, etcetera, for the Klebergs. Also lost our shirt. We decided to stay away from the hunting "industry" after that.

Same here.

I need fawn numbers before I even start thinking about tags.

When did they start issuing them so early???
We always have spotlight surveys due in Aug/Sept.. Low fence

Harvest option doesn't require surveys/counts.

How does MLD work?

Hardest part for me was drawing out my boundary on the TPWD website. (>>LMA)

Agree to the program, to use only MLD tags on your property, etc. You'll have to select Harvest Option or Conservation Option. They have different requirements and differ as to when you can start shooting regular bucks.

We belonged to a COOP and we counted observations and sent them in to the COOP. This allowed us to get doe permits through P&W. We could only take doe by permit only but we harvested bucks by normal harvesting using tags on our licenses. We could only harvest bucks by what was limited by the county. I liked that setup as we used that for many years and it worked great. Don't know if this will be much help though.