QDM and Neighbors


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I was wondering if anyone here has a problem my group of hunters have. We, along with a few neighbors want to start QDM, while the other half has no interest and just blast anything. What I was wondering is if anyone has had this problem, but was still able to create a plan to have big deer in their hunting area. Thanks

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as long as you have members in your group that don't practice the same way you do, it will be harder for you to start. if you do start they may jump on board later. try it:)

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Been down that road kind of, good luck with it. I was pretty disappointed to say the least when I put trust in other people in the respect of trying to manage a property and work with them. We kind of had an agreement with the leaseholders who hunt the property behind us. The kind of part is because while it was verbal conversation with the primary leaseholder, I am just not so sure that those leaseholders were all in agreement and what he told me was necessarily completely true. I talked to the boy who runs the lease several times, he told me they wanted to try to let the young ones go and improve the age class of the deer around here. We came to an agreement. Unfortunately they did not practice that at all. Watched several deer walk off my property some after having great shot opportunities only to be shot or shot at by those guys on that lease. Watched a young spike come back across onto my property after it had been shot, the boy who shot it was the primary leaseholders brother, and after a call to him to ask if he was even going to look for the deer, he said his brother did not think he hit it good, and was not going to look for it. That boy was back out shooting again the next day.

This property here has great potential, ag crops all over, leading into a river bottom with some good thick cover in the swamp. Have seen some deer with great potential over the years, but unfortunately they never seem to be let go to get any age on them. We have become so disheartened after the last couple years of trying to be selective, that I think our goals have shifted.

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How much land do you have control of?

Are you going to put in any foodplots, feeders, mineral sites ect.?

What goals do you have?

Remember to be patient, you will not get monster bucks one year into it. It takes time.

We have some neighbor that blast anything and everything then we have some that are a tad more selective. I can't do much about the way they hunt, cause they do not want to change. :( But I know by the hunters on my land not shooting small bucks and shooting does it has helped. Have we reached our full potentional no, but it is better.:)

We also plant several food plots, have several mineral sites and feed in the winter to help the deer heard and hope they stay on our property and not go to the neighbors. We have been at this for several years do we have record book deer no not very often but we do have a better quality of deer.

Remember be patient and have fun!!:)

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We have 170 acres, with 75 being huntable. I'd like to block of a section of woods that no one touches. Put a food plot in the middle of the woods and let it be a deer santuary if you will. This way under pressure, from no matter where the deer come from, they can stay there with no pressure. Not sure how this will work, but I was thinking it would hold deer there all the time. Hopefully after 4-6 years bigger deer will frequent our area more.

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I have the same problem, there is a guy about a 2 miles down the road that lets about 6 guys from chicago come up for shotgun season every year and shoot whatever comes in front of them. We go see what they harvested and see alot of nice bucks that we passed up all of bow season. It really ticks me off, but there is nothing i can do.

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Yeah and if you contact your regional director at QDMA, they could help those of you start a branch or cooperative, and help you educate your neighbors.

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Been there.Done that,and all I got was some back sass and a basic understanding that if a deer comes from my farm over across the property line to the farm next door they are all of a sudden the neghbor's deer.I have tried to be nice for about 5yrs and last year I got into a rather heated confritation with the actual owner of the land about his so called hunters pulling ears off our corn and using them for bait piles,at that time we had no no tresspassin up,but that has changed,and the owner smugly thanked me for planting food plots ect..so HIS deer could have some winter forage.Well to make this story short,my dad and I sent him a rather nice bill to cover seed,fuel,and other cost to the properly feed HIS deer and two weeks later received a formal apology from this dude.I love to see what this season will bring

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I was wondering if anyone here has a problem my group of hunters have. We, along with a few neighbors want to start QDM, while the other half has no interest and just blast anything. What I was wondering is if anyone has had this problem, but was still able to create a plan to have big deer in their hunting area. Thanks

QDM is very difficult to do in my part of South Carolina unless you own a ton of land. If you're on a small tract like me its pretty hard. I do the best I can with food plots, mineral licks, logging & shooting does but until the state out laws dog drives or implement some kind of antler restrictions things are very difficult.

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Got all the equipment, only cost will be seed, so it's worth a shot.

Depending on what you are planting, would be worth your while to find out what your soil needs for the optimum results of the plot. Seed in most situations really is just a portion cost wise of what goes into a plot.

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