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I got one niece set up this year in a ladder stand with the wind perfect for a trail to a bedding area with some scrapes and rubs around, and she got a nice buck opening morning.

I spent more time trying to make sure she was set up than I usually do for myself, and next year it's the same thing, but for her sister.

Not sure how/why he has that rule...

Going to build a box stand for my wife to hunt out of and plant some green food by it.

Been in the same deer camp here at home since 76. When I got in we had 3000 acres to hunt but only 350 owned. 40 deer down for the group opening week was common back then. 30 years ago my father and I kept telling them that we needed to buy land around us as it comes up. Log it to help the ground and to help pay for it in a ten year rotational plan. They all laughed at us and elected to keep costs down. FF to today. Those same 35 guys are all hunting on the 350. I haven't hunted on camp property in 20 years . The 35 of them shot 4 deer for the entire season (a month long). It's a joke. Dad and I have been hunting a small 119ac farm. We leave it alone until gun season. We both sit in the same 2 seats every year and are usually back at camp by lunchtime most years. My area does not produce good deer but we have a bunch of them. Its a meat hunt at best. My plan for next year is to try and find a lease to join out of state or another campout of state. Going to be putting in for Iowa, we'll see what the draw brings. Times changed and I can't swing the trips I used to do anymore.

That place is so overgrazed the cows eat the bushes, cactus, anything. He is afraid they would eat some of brush killer. He calls those bushes persimmons, gives the cows projectile cshits when they eat them. In the pic below you can see his fence line, lots of dead juniper on his place because it died during a big drought about 12 years ago. His entire place is like that. There is grass across the fence, ours is mostly bare ground.

hanco and pete53 are hunting together in MN & TX!

I ain’t goin to Minnesota

C'mon man - it might do you some good to experience deer hunting beyond guarding a corn flinger.
And you'd get to hunt with a MN legend.

I hunted a place for 15 yrs in Ozona Texas that I could walk and hunt, ease up on deer if the wind was right. I liked walking rims of canyons to see what jumps up. I tire of guarding corn feeders for sure, butt no desire to go to Minnesota.

Same as every year, hunt the Crown( public) land on the river and in the river valley proper for 90% of the season fir my mule deer and white tails . Possibly go down to a friend's place and huntvsome private farm land.
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We'll be back at our camp. I'll hopefully will still be Patriarch. Wash Rinse Repeat.

We really are behind in a couple of general tasks due to my Chemo. We need to start developing a couple more hunting venues (stand or blinds). Moose's back injury makes it hard for him to climb ladders, and it'd help if we could get a couple more ground blinds established, especially ones closer to the cabin. On 200 acres, there's all kinds of potential, but finding a new spot that does not encroach on an existing spot is getting harder. Also nobody wants to go where there's a guaranteed 100-200 ft of altitude difference schlepping the deer out. Right now, 80 % of our deer are taken where we can just roll right out with the truck.

Glad you are taking care of the older hunters

Pretty much the same plan for me as in the last 20 years. Only better. Most of the spring and early summer will be opening trails and improving habitat.