Drumming Log Wildlife Management

[drummin_log]

Drumming Log Wildlife Management is proud to be partnering with the guys from The Midwest Hunter! We wanted to drop in and introduce ourselves and hopefully help in regards to wildlife management, food plots, and habitat enhancement.

Drumming Log Wildlife management is dedicated in enhancing your property to its fullest potential. As a deer management company, we want to be characterized as honest, dedicated, and have over 10 years of experience in managing wildlifeand it's habitats. The owner, Erich Long, was also named the 2009 QDMA Professional Deer Manager of the Year.

At Drumming Log Wildlife Management, we don't want just to be a deer management company; we want to be educators in all the aspects in managing for the whitetail deer. Whether it be a trip to a property for a consultation or producing ourwebshow, Reality Deer Management, we are here to help and want to focus on the guy that owns or hunts small properties. These are the majority of the people who hunt and they are the ones that often times are overwhelmed at the
large scale food plotting, habitat work, and expensive projects they read about and see on TV. We are here to educate and show you that anyone can improve their property no matter how large or small it is or how limited their budget is.

We are excited to be here and hope to help anyone with questions!

The Drumming Log Wildlife Management Team

[MuscleOnTheRidge]

Welcome to TMH and all that it has to offer. Glad you could make it.

MOTR

[reezen83]

I've watched a lot of there stuff. it's normal guys helping normal people. They show some real inexpensive ways to manage your property. It's worth checking out.

[drummin_log]

Thanks guys!

[Aero]

Welcome, hope to hear more about food plots and what to be planting.

[drummin_log]

We'll try to answer any and all questions you all have. The key thing to remember is you don't have to have a huge budget or a giant property. Now you can't have expectation of killing booners every year on 30 acres, but with some effort
you can improve that 30 acres to the point it's holding more deer and more attractive to the neighbors deer. You can't keep one deer on just your property unless you have a huge farm. Unfortunately we just learned that the hard way at one of my client's farms. He was pictures of videos of an awesome buck throughout the season. Hunted him hard, but never could get it to come together. The habitat improvements and management plan we instilled kept this deer on his
farm the majority of the time. Sadly, he wandered off on Monday and the neighbor was in the right place at the right time and was able to harvest a giant Ohio whitetail. Great for him, but the story ended sadly for my client.

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[MarkJUrban]

I know there is a lot of factors that go into a rack like that. Age is an obvious factor.

Other than age which factor do you believe play the biggest part in this deer? How old do you think this deer is?

Genetics % ?
Nutrition % ?
other factors?


Mark

[drummin_log]

Good question! In this case, in which this deer was harvested in Ohio, the only thing lacking is not so much nutrition or genetics but it is AGE! Let me explain. No matter where you live in Ohio, you are surrounded by nutrition and not only nutrition but high protein vegetation. For example, 70 percent of a deer’s diet is forbs and browse in the growing season. An old field type environment would fit this description. In that old field type environment, you have vegetation in there
that has high protein levels that go close to 30 percent and its highly desired. Food plots can not compete with this because of cost and soil ph. levels. Nature takes care of the rest in this situation. Remember, when dealing with wild deer
populations, deer only need roughly 16 percent to reach optimum size and growth.

Now we live in one of the best states in the country when it comes to genetics in our deer herd. Heck, go to Ohio Buckeye Big Buck Club banquet or any place where deer heads are shown and this will convince you. Genetics are a complicatedissue and it takes sometime to explain so we will leave it at that.

Age is the limiting factor when dealing with Ohio’s deer herd, but not every deer will reach Boone and Crockett status even if age is allowed. Deer in which you are speaking of as well as the “Beauty Buck” for example, are freaks of nature.
Not every deer is like those deer. It all begins with a healthy doe and a healthy environment.

Take care and I hope this answers your question.


Erich D. Long

[MarkJUrban]

Thanks for the info. It helps with land management focus when you conentrate on the major factor: age.

Is it possible to examine a deer and determine if the rack had met its full nutrition potential?

Thanks Erich!