First post here goes...
I have a ranch in central Tx near Brady and its 76 acres, mostly thick great deer hunting up until the last year, My neighbor across the hwy from me is running a high fence across his 7000 acres and the guy to my left practices the "it its brown its down" style of hunting.
All I want is to continue to see the occasional 160 class buck that we have gotten used to but my neighbor literally shot approx 30 deer last year on his 35 acres, everyone else around is large acreage but this guy is just killing me.
I have just finished building a house on the property and really don't want to sell as it is pristine land with a nice pond and a active spring. I just don't know how many deer I could put on the place and still have it be fun. I already spend 3k a year on protein but all I am doing now is feeding Does and a couple of yearling bucks because the guy next to me literally kills any buck in sight, carries everyone he knows and has 4 blinds set on that small property.
I did think about selling and buying somewhere else but my wife loves the place, money is not the problem and if I was going to turn this into a private little place then I want some real nice deer in the longrun but don't just want a few, so I guess my question is whats an approx max load out for such a small place as mine and has it been done successfully?
Lastly, this is NOT going to be a business, just my little private place to get away.
I have a ranch in central Tx near Brady and its 76 acres, mostly thick great deer hunting up until the last year, My neighbor across the hwy from me is running a high fence across his 7000 acres and the guy to my left practices the "it its brown its down" style of hunting.
All I want is to continue to see the occasional 160 class buck that we have gotten used to but my neighbor literally shot approx 30 deer last year on his 35 acres, everyone else around is large acreage but this guy is just killing me.
I have just finished building a house on the property and really don't want to sell as it is pristine land with a nice pond and a active spring. I just don't know how many deer I could put on the place and still have it be fun. I already spend 3k a year on protein but all I am doing now is feeding Does and a couple of yearling bucks because the guy next to me literally kills any buck in sight, carries everyone he knows and has 4 blinds set on that small property.
I did think about selling and buying somewhere else but my wife loves the place, money is not the problem and if I was going to turn this into a private little place then I want some real nice deer in the longrun but don't just want a few, so I guess my question is whats an approx max load out for such a small place as mine and has it been done successfully?
Lastly, this is NOT going to be a business, just my little private place to get away.