Monday, July 05, 2010
Young Guns and Big Bucks on Small Plots
by Blaine Burley
Many of today’s small landowners have discovered that big bucks can be grown and harvested on small acreage. What is still being debated, however, is the best way to achieve this lofty goal, and what opportunities it opens up (especially for young hunters). In the past, we were taught that you needed large tracts of land (over 5,000 acres of contiguous land) or high-fenced operations to effectively and consistently produce quality whitetails. However, many of today’s wildlife managers and biologists have realized that you can consistently produce trophy-class bucks on small tracts of land if you manage these tracts properly. The cornerstone of managing small tracts effectively is to provide everything your deer herd needs within the boundaries of your property. The basics may be obvious: adequate amounts of food, water, and cover. Yet, most small tracts of land lack one or more of these three components. You, as a wildlife manager and landowner, must provide these three key ingredients in order to attract, grow, and keep quality bucks on your property.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
January 2010 Blog Location: South Texas
Dateline: 1/12/10 – Wow!!! What a season we have just completed in South Texas. The Bucks of Tecomate cameras covered hunts on El Cazador, El Tecomate, La Perla and Campos Veijos ranches, all managed under the Tecomate Management System! And on those hunts, we shot MONSTERS! So much happened, we’ll have to break it into two parts.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Location: Black Hills of Wyoming
Location: Black Hills of Wyoming
Dateline: 11/10/09 – Back when I was 12 years old, my mother and daddy took my cousin, Newt, and me on a two-week driving tour through the West that included a visit to South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore on the eastern edge of the famous Black Hills, so named because of the dark Ponderosa pines populating the hills. After visiting Mount Rushmore, we continued our drive westward through the Black Hills, where I saw more deer, mostly whitetails, than I ever knew existed. I never forgot that trip and all those deer and always harbored the hope of returning there someday to hunt.
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Saturday, November 07, 2009
Location: Eastern Colorado (Whitetails)
Location: Eastern Colorado
Dateline: 11/7/09 – After a slow start in Idaho, the next stop in the West put The Bucks of Tecomate in the winning column. On October 23th, I flew into Denver and was joined by my old hunting buddy of many years, David Shashy of Ocala, Florida, for a whitetail hunt in Eastern Colorado. We drove from Denver International Airport southeast to near the small town of Kit Carson, right in the middle of the wide open spaces. During our two-hour drive, David and I kept asking each other where in the world could even an adaptable, wily whitetail find a hiding place in these high plains.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
1st Trip of 2009 in North-central Idaho
Well, our first trip of 2009 is behind us. Debbie and I traveled to beautiful north-central Idaho and hunted with Chuck, Lana and Anderson Melgin on their South Fork River Ranch near Grangeville. What a wonderful week we had with them! The ranch lies along the South Fork of the Clearwater River, one of the best steelhead fishing rivers in the U.S.. It was, in Debbie’s words, “Spectacular!”
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