As I was reading some of my earlier blogs I realized that I needed to point out that the matched sheds I found last March were the sheds from the buck I killed last week. The difference is truly amazing, I don't know if it was the wet year we had with lots of rain, the food plots of white clover I planted, or the antler restrictions which we are benefiting from, but the buck grew about 40 inches from last year to this year. Maybe it is the result of all three in combination, again I'm not sure, whatever the reason, let me say it works! I'm going to continue to plant food plots, only harvest mature deer, kill all the does I have tags for, and continue to manage my measly hundred acres for big deer. I am a believer that you don't have to have thousands of acres of fenced habitat to grow big whitetails. My neighbors are a mismatch as well, some hunt little, some hunt everything that walks, but I am continuing to see bigger deer and I am convinced that it is due to managing for whitetails. Something else I didn't mention in my previous blog, because I was to involved in telling my buck story, is that we have built another pond on the farm. This one is the biggest yet, can't decide whether to stock it on our own or do it through the state? Will have to consult Joefish on that one. Still haven't got my buck pics uploaded yet, but I will......until next time.....cheers.

P.S. I'm to challenged to upload photos so if you want to check out the pic of my buck see Joefish's blog, hes got a pic posted!