Whitetail Rendezvous

, we manage things a little bit different than…I shouldn’t say everybody, because there’s other people that do it the same as we do. For us we have private land, so we can manage things the way we want as we own it. We look for four-and-a-half-plus-year-old bucks. You know, if we have a 140, 150-inch three-year-old, usually that deer gets a free pass. And if we have a 130-inch five-year-old, that deer is going to get shot before that bigger antler buck because that bigger antler buck has potential. There’s also, you know, you flip the dice. Because something could happen, EHD, CWD, hit by a car, predators, there’s a lot of different things that can happen to that. So, you know, you roll the dice and hope for the best. But when we, you know, try to manage our deer herds, we shoot X amount of does, and then usually try to shoot that, you know, four-and-a-half-year-old or older. Now, if I have special needs hunters or I have youth hunters, then that’s a whole different ball g