Need ideas on helping manage deer club

[Frank Buck]

We have a couple acres just shy of 200 in our family....about 30miles as a crow flies from Fin's place in Jefferson County Ms. We are surrounded by paper company leased by a large club that runs dogs....We shoot does for meat....early....then we don't pull the trigger unless it is worthy of being on the wall....We KNOW we let deer pass that get shot by our neighbors....but....OH WELL....we are not going to do it! There is simply no sense in killing 1.5 to 2.5 yo eight points, just because the neighbor....MIGHT shoot it....A doe taste better anyway....Just my dad and brother hunt with me there, along with my daughters, nieces and any of my friends who have a kid that have never killed a deer. We see a lot of deer, but we see a lot of deer because we feed and don't kill everything that walks....It is frustrating at times, but it does pay off....I understand that I am lucky to have the property and not everyone has that ability, but it is just how we run things. It works....We have roughly 10-15 documented deer a year that are "no shoots" and you would be surprised how many make it to the next year. The surrounding club will get 2-4 of them, but the majority make it....and stay where dogs don't hound them and people don't shoot at them all the time....We walk or golf cart everywhere and we keep the pressure off of them...it CAN be done on a small piece of property, if done right.