Redman54
Senior Member
My neighbor owns a 2,500 acre farm that is high fenced,(opinions on this may vary, but not the point of this post) He spares no expenses when it comes to maintaining the land that will benefit all wildlife. He has well established mast producing trees, several plots with mature fruit bearing trees, several cultivated fields that are planted with a variety of row crops that are left standing, etc.. Every year around the rut, they find at least one, some years more, deer that have been shot from the road by some low life, just for the sake of shooting them. Whoever is killing them has no intention to harvest the animal. I can't wrap my head around killing them just to let it rot. The most recent one that was found, was aged by their biologist at 3 1/2 years old. I can't imagine what this guy would have looked like in a few more years. These pictures really don't do this stud any justice. You can't reach around the bases, and the mass carries out all the way to the end of the main beams.