Member/Hunter Contributions
First
archery trophy deer for this bow hunter.
Two views of the same buck.
"Nearly got away. Had to return the next day to track it again
after losing the trail the late afternoon before."
Not much sleep that night for Kevin C., and a great deer hunting
story to tell for years. Thanks for sharing your pictures.
Congratulations on a fine deer hunt, it could not have been for a
better hunter!
| The following is an email exchange that
illustrates some of the informative feedback we
received from our deer member/hunters. We
encourage all members to provide their hunt
reviews whenever they have something to tell
us throughout the entire year. |
John,
I finally had a chance to do some deer hunting on club
land and for the most part VERY impressed. My only
disappointment was in [location deleted]. Greg
recommended the area and from the aerial the land looks
great. However, a large portion of the cedars along the
draw in (a) from Southwest to Northeast have been dozed
into the gully. Cows had free range of all but the
soybean field, and it had very little sign of deer.
On a good note, [location deleted] had more deer sign
than I've ever seen on 80 acres and one VERY large buck
in my book. I'd guess him a 150 or so, but only an 8
point. I saw one other nice 3 1/2 yr old 8 and a
yearling 8. I lost count of the doe, at least 15. This is
the kind of land I was looking for. The beans haven't
been cut yet and the CRP is over knee high.
This past weekend I hunted [location deleted] and
also very impressed. A good 10 point 20yds from a ground
blind before light will get anyone fired up. The rest of
the day, numerous doe and a couple of smaller bucks.
The wooded draw up the center of the place (where I had
my blind) is thick with a lot of deer sign. To the
Northeast wheat is 2-3 inches and covered in tracks.
Read about
central md-west deer hunting and food plots.
This weekend I plan to try [location deleted]. Maybe
I can connect with one there.
Thanks for all the info earlier this year, the areas
you suggested are all good deer areas.
Nick
| The value this deer hunter feedback has to the
Association deer hunter as a whole is several fold. If we
could get this kind of review from 10% of
the membership each season or for their one
trip a year the land keep/delete list would
be easier to maintain, end of season
contract performance payments easier to
manage reference the bulldozing and
deer member/hunter satisfaction easier to gauge. As it is right now in addition to the
members we speak to during reservations we
will try to call one member each work day
whenever time permits throughout the year. A
good year will have us time to call almost a
100 of the members and we simply ask there
view on the Association. Between members
calling us, sending in great emails like the
one above, those we encounter in the field
and the ones we call, we seem to have a good
idea for the values hunters find within
their membership..
The keep/delete listing has always been a
point of discussion as I [John Wenzel]
personally has put deer leases on the delete
list that a member or two will have told of
a great harvest or other reason to keep it.
Read some more deer hunting accounts. |
Another do it yourself deer hunter/member sent in this picture.
Congratulations to Mike M, for a fine bow harvest.
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