newq lease
 

Went to my new deer lease in San Saba, TX this weekend. Did a bit of work around the camp and filled the protein feeders. Here is one pic of a bachelor group of deer coming to a feeder on Saturday morning. From the looks of it it should be a good year!:D

here it is
 

here's the pic

are you being for real? gonna be a REAL good year if that pic is legit

what kind of protein yall feeding and how much is it?

real pic
 

This is 100% real picture taken at around 7:30 am saturday morning. Here is a color pic. There were about 15 bucks in this group.

protein
 

Our ranch manager feeds some type of range pellet. I don't really know what brand. I should have remembered since I opened an entire palat of bags and dumped them into a large grain unit.

which one to shoot
 

The only deer we will harvest out of this bunch is the one in the middle. He is a 9 pt. and the other 8 pts are all 2, 3, and 4 years old. We only shoot 5.5 year old trophy bucks or anything that has odd points - 3,5,7,9. The one on the right side may have a small point trying to show on his right tip but I can't see his left tip to see if his is going to be a 10. If he has only one extra tip that makes him a 9 pt then he, too, will be taken out of the herd. It sure is hard to watch these younger 8 pts come into the feeder and not shoot them. Patience pays off, though, as we will only harvest true trophy deer. Most of the 10s we will shoot will be 140-150 class deer. We also harvest all spikes that are over 3 inches tall. We shoot a fair number of does as well. This year our ranch will harvest 30 does and 14 bucks. The best part is that these antlers still have a couple of months of growth left! ! !

Dude that's awesome.

I don't even deer hunt but I've got buck fever just looking at that pic. I bet you're excited as hell.

Good luck this year.

Thanks
 

Yes, I am very excited. Can't wait for the opener in November. Until then we have to take a bunch of pictures with camera and trail cams and decide which ones of these bad boys we need to shoot! It will be fun!

Man that's some nice azz deer! Congrats for just having deer like that on your place.

Just to know, the deer all the way to the back left is a 2 year old as is the one all the way to the right. The other 3 deer are 3 year olds and need 2 more years to be shooters.. Man its gonna be a fun couple of years watching these deer mature.

that 9pt you talkin about is gonna make a nice mount come the rut!! he's already carrying some weight with him, with a swole up neck gonna be supper nice!! And that lower left wide 8 is gonna make a real good trophy when his time comes, nice pic..

That's my favorite kind of rack right there

yessur,, gonna make a nice wall mount, by the time hes ready he might need his own wall!!

All fairly young......Nice!

We have potential on our place....(10,000 acres) We kill some really nice big bodied deer 200lbs + with several 140" + every year, just can't get most our members to commit:shaking: A strict program & we would have some absolute monsters there.

"LET 'EM GO, LET 'EM GROW"

Soo......when we going? lol

Yeh the only rule we have about bucks on my place is if you shoot it, u gotta mount it.

the rules on my lease was 9pt or better..... seen tons of does and spikes, nothing over a 4pt in 4 years.... i think some people wasnt playing by the rules cause i heard lotsa gun shots !!!

We're 4 pt or better on the lease I hunt on. I'll be joining the club next year and have already told my uncles, dad and grandpa that I'll be pushing for 6 pt or better the 1st day I become a member.

i aint never killed a deer in my life..... im hoping to this year.... got a good place to hunt. Got a few nice 'uns on camera...

If you would come with me I could put you on one on your first hunt but no....it's too far :cry: :p