Is any one welcome.

Is there anyone here that is in southeast Missouri that I could poss visit.? I will be down there in Arkansas for a few weeks over Christmas. Thanks. Jim

ChasingCreation said:

Hi Lawman,

I was given advice before we got our first deer . . . this was it. It is better to buy one or two good does than to buy 10 average does. The advice giver also said this . . . breed high end, and you'll get high end results; breed middle of the road, and you'll get middle of the road results; and, finally, breed low-end, and all you'll get is high food bills. Our strategy of breeding is well suited to our objectives, which leads to the next piece of advice we have received . . . know what you want from the industry. If you want to raise deer as a hobby, great; but understand that it will be just that, not a huge money-maker. If you want to raise deer for a living, treat it like a business; because that's what it is. I've seen people (close friends) treat this business like a hobby, and all they have received is frustration, high-food bills, and disappointment.



So, here's my advice (not really mine, just borrowed from others that gave it to me) . . . Know what you want and plan for it, start small with great quality does, and be very selective in what you buy and breed with.



Have a God time!

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Excellent advice Joe, and to further clarify what you said: It takes the same amount of feed, water, and labor/time to feed low-end deer as it does high-end deer, but the bottom line is drastically different!

Hey Sharkey - Haven't seen you on here in awhile, hope you're doin well. The term ''monster'' buck here in the States is commonly referrenced as an extra large buck, as a huge buck...typical or nontypical...be they in the enclosure or free range. Nobody in the states that I know of finds that terminology offensive. We commonly say things like ''monster bear'', ''monster moose'', ''monster bass'', ''monster walleye'', etc. It simply denotes ''extra large''.

Up here you'll here other terminology describing huge whitetails such as - He was a ''pig'', He was a ''tank'', He was a ''horse'', He was ''montorious'', He was a ''slob'', just to mention a few. Had some boys in from Tennessee this weekend and their reference to a huge deer was ''Mac Daddy''.

Heard a Gent last week describe a huge buck he saw as a ''lovely buck''. Not a term I would commonly use, but none the less a term.

Be well Sharkey!

Cheers Mark.

Perhapse its a cultural, translation thing. I'll stop earbashing you guys about it.OK.

I do like "lovely",much more positive & no doubt very fitting.

Mate ,I've been sinking under the work load of late.Trying to keep to many balls in the air at once.Sleeps overated as they say.LOL

My family & deer are going well, so I'm good.Thanks for asking. I hope it's the same for you.

We launched two new associations down here last year(one for the safari industry peak body & one for game management in the Pacific).

Muggins here has bee roped in as chair of both.I'm trying to understand & make heads of the issues of sika in Japan,then buff in Papua the next minute,followed by rusa in New Calidonia,1080 & choppers in NZ ,ducks destroying rice fields etc,etc.

Luckily we've some great vet scientists,biologists & many other experts on the committee to keep us old hunters loaded up with enough science to take on the antis.



I enjoy this forum.I enjoy you good keen deer people & have learnt a lot from you.

I have nothing to sell you,so hope you understand my "devils advocate" approach at times.I'd like nothing better than to see you all thrive.



Cheers Sharkey