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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hirschkopf" data-source="post: 4375070" data-attributes="member: 50724">My third year as an out-of-state, Oklahoma land owning hunter has come to a close. My 1050 mile trek back home is about half finished. Thankfully, I’m not going home with an empty cooler like last year. It has three deboned does in it. I run two feeders; a 2000 lb gravity feeder and a 1000 lb broadcast feeder. Each August to September the camera on the gravity feeder occasionally captures 7-8 bucks enjoying the provided feed together in daylight. But come the rifle hunt, they, and the does, are largely nowhere to be found. FWIW, the last deer captured on camera during daylight was on 25 November (12 days ago)! My place has water, cover, and as of this year, a custom-planted food plot installed by the beloved Retrieverman. All three deer were shot on that food plot, and from a ladder stand he installed. They were not eating the greens, because I think they’d been feasting on acorns (see photo of a representative ground appearance). But, the land cleaning and elevation sure made targeting them easier. I harvested a young doe on 24 November. My two sons decided to drive from AZ to hunt over the Thanksgiving school break (18 hours in a Tesla). I gave them the best spots over the food plot (one on the ladder stand and the other in the ground blind) while I staked out the gravity feeder. About 4:30 on Thanksgiving, three does wandered onto the plot, and one son shot two of them and seemed to have woken the other son up. Since three deer worth of venison likely is the max we could eat in a year, given finicky women-folk, we called it quits. Many thanks to Retrieverman for his help and congratulations to all who filled their tag(s).[ATTACH=full]535404[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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