Deer Management Program Need Help

I do not plan on trying to manage all animals on the entire 3500 acres that is just way to far beyond what I am capable of doing. My plan was to take say 300-500 acres or so and focus on this area. Will be planting food plots this spring. This will be my first time so I am just trying this and will be going with a 1 acre plot of perennials and a 1 acre plot of annuals separated by a couple hundred yards between the 2. This is very very new to me and in the very early stages of planning was just trying to get my head around what possibly needs to be done. This is definitely going to be a work in progress which will be going on for several years as I learn and expand the area I am trying to manage. Will do a lot more research. Thanks for the input so far folks.

Happy hunting. Trevor.
 
You might not be able to limit outsiders legally, but you might be able to discourage their presence.

Instead, why not invest in some official looking signage? If you post No Trespassing signs, you are declaring your assertion to that piece of the woods for your purposes. Consider declaring your property a 'herbivore scientific research preserve', a 'wildlife succession management unit', or a 'cervid regeneration test site'. Don't coattail with a real university or conservation organization by name. Instead, spend $500 for your lawyer to create a numbered company with a purposeful name. You won't convince everybody, but you will in fact be meeting the letter of the law about the land being used for something more than a place for porcupines to sing to their lovers.

A second signage route might be to declare 'hunting on foot only', 'no motorized vehicles of any kind', or 'all unauthorized access prohibited'. You could cite the civil damages legislation about 'entry at your own risk', 'prior permission required for access', 'trespassers will be prosecuted for all damages', or 'landowner not responsible for loss, damage, death or injury'.
 
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I am not to worried about people going on the property, haven't seen a single stranger hunter there ever and the owner knows everyone who lives even remotely close to this. Legally no I can not keep people off but MOST hunters out of respect will respect the signs and not go on. Plus having my camp located on the property and being there a lot and not seeing anyonr else besides those who are with me or the owner I'm not worried. My main reason behind the post was to see what to really do to start a management program. Plant plots, selectively taking deer what to take what to let walk etc.
 
Save the coin an do the time, do the miles.. get the smiles.. a few feeder stations in the heart of the property and when it comes deer hunting season, then just get in there?

that's what id do... I wouldn't like to spend bulk coin on feed to have the walk ins shoot me bucks..

wack a few does but try keep it quiet in some parts to keep them living there!?

in my mind I shoot stuf that is in the spike to mid size range, it might be shooting myself in the foot a bit for certain years time but for now I just want those mr Bigs (30 inch trophy, 26+ good, sub 24-22 future stags say 3-4 years time... then 20-15 an 15- spike.. that's for our sambar specifically.

we want 8-9+ year old stags, so if I leave a bunch of 5-6 ish year old deer? then sooner next few seasons of good growth they could become solid 28s...from 24inch.

the spikes an up to 20 inches are going to take 4-6 years to get any decent Antler mass an I don't care for that at the moment .. in a pretty go hard mentality .. so I shoot them.


admittedly have been for if its a stag to shoot it without much thought, so I have a few 22-25 inch models but hoping that's past an be more picky with those 25-28s looking for 30+s..

too many hinds isn't good though



WL
 
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