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Anybody on here hunt there?

What are the rules there? I know the Club is on a 8 point system, but what other rules are there for the bucks?

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not worth joining. sorry. but being honest

WilM88 wrote:not worth joining. sorry. but being honest

I'll second this.

Ted,

Were you a member once? I have hunted this place for 3 years and this one might be my last. My bother killed a 130" 7 pt opening day of our first year in the club. I have passed on a few bucks. There is something going on and I cant figure it out. There either isnt a very good deer density or there is too much pressure and they are noctournal as chit. It puzzles me.

deltadukman wrote:Ted,

Were you a member once? I have hunted this place for 3 years and this one might be my last. My bother killed a 130" 7 pt opening day of our first year in the club. I have passed on a few bucks. There is something going on and I cant figure it out. There either isnt a very good deer density or there is too much pressure and they are noctournal as chit. It puzzles me.

after you been hunting there they scared you might want you to stump break em so they only come out at nite!

deltadukman wrote:Ted,

Were you a member once? I have hunted this place for 3 years and this one might be my last. My bother killed a 130" 7 pt opening day of our first year in the club. I have passed on a few bucks. There is something going on and I cant figure it out. There either isnt a very good deer density or there is too much pressure and they are noctournal as chit. It puzzles me.

For the last 4 years I have hunted the Rankin/Simpson and Leake county areas.. All within 30 minutes or Brandon and have seen similar issues. Can't figure em out. Been talking to the guys at my current camp. Seems the deer are real tuned into the activity around them. Sure there may be a deer density issue, but the ones that are there are very in tuned to what is going on around them.. At least that is what the guys at my camp have said. I have changed my hunting habits a little bit and that has seemed to help.

Wink I have hunted in Rankin County my entire life. Except for this place, there are plenty of deer. Heck I had an 8pt in my front yard earlier and I can see the Statue. This is a completely different ballgame than what your dealing with down there. This place is a huge block of creekbottoms and should have deer running everywhere. I dont know if it is that it used to be public, or the methheads around there shooting deer at night and tresspassing, or the traffice, but they are not there like they should. I hunt hard...use the wind, walk all the way in, everything. Its just different. I believe they are all noctournal. The whole camp can go several days without seeing a deer. Its rough.

Negative, I was not a member. A very good friend of mine was in it for years so it's all I heard about. Pressure

deltadukman wrote:Wink I have hunted in Rankin County my entire life. Except for this place, there are plenty of deer. Heck I had an 8pt in my front yard earlier and I can see the Statue. This is a completely different ballgame than what your dealing with down there. This place is a huge block of creekbottoms and should have deer running everywhere. I dont know if it is that it used to be public, or the methheads around there shooting deer at night and tresspassing, or the traffice, but they are not there like they should. I hunt hard...use the wind, walk all the way in, everything. Its just different. I believe they are all noctournal. The whole camp can go several days without seeing a deer. Its rough.

Yeah I see them all the time in my neighborhood to. When I go to camp is when I don't see them..

Something must be wrong then - I was in the lease (Briarcreek Hunting CLub) on the North side of Midway Rd all the way to 25 Hwy (1450 acres including the 110 acres off Gore Rd) before FCHC got it. We lost our lease cause the dumb booty didn't pay the lease on time and they pulled it from us. We killed plenty of deer. I know cause I kept the books. Now we wasn't on a program like FCHC is now (whatever their program is?), but we killed several mountable Bucks every year for the 5 years we had that lease. I killed two 8's (over 16" inside) and my friend killed a 9 (18" inside) and a 8 (24 inside spread) plus some smaller ones every year. Other members killed some really nice Bucks too. Just thinking back - first year we had the lease, we killed about 40 deer (about half Bucks to Does) 2nd thur the 5 year, we kill from 20 to 30 on average every year with Bucks being 1/3 to 1/2 each year. I think we had about 16 to 18 members on average each year.

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I just was asking what kind of BUck Program does FCHC have?

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I am a member as well and there have been several good bucks taken off the camp in the past 3 years, the problem is when you sit on a food plot for several afternoons when all the conditions are right and don't see $h!t. That makes it hard to continue hunting for a shot at the big ones when you can't even see a doe but every once in a while.

We've tried getting off in the thick stuff and hunting the plots and lanes but no one is consistently seeing deer. When 4 or 5 folks I know well and aren't lying to me go at the same times and no one sees a thing...somethings up.

farmerc83 wrote:I am a member as well and there have been several good bucks taken off the camp in the past 3 years, the problem is when you sit on a food plot for several afternoons when all the conditions are right and don't see $h!t. That makes it hard to continue hunting for a shot at the big ones when you can't even see a doe but every once in a while.

We've tried getting off in the thick stuff and hunting the plots and lanes but no one is consistently seeing deer. When 4 or 5 folks I know well and aren't lying to me go at the same times and no one sees a thing...somethings up.

This is the same issue I have been having at my camp.

WELL DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHAT THE BUCK PROGRAM IS FOR FCHC ?

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Call me and I can tell you where a few of my honeyholes are on that place. Both my big bucks came from the same stand I had and a 24" 8 pointer that my friend killed.

When we had the lease, we planted some great food plots and the deer used them, but we hunt in the thick stuff away from the plot and we saw plenty of deer.

Some of the best hunting was on the north side of the powerlines (old railroad), but as I understand it, FCHC didn't lease that area north of the powerlines to Hwy 25. It wasn't a lot of land, but some of the land on both sides was not hunted at that time, so some nice bucks had time to grow up.

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WELL DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHAT THE BUCK PROGRAM IS FOR FCHC ?


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To answer your question, the buck program is:

Must be at least an 8 pt.

And one of the following
15" spread
or 18" main beam