There are lots of average hunters with little money to own or lease a large tract of land to hunt and manage a deer herd. But fortunatley seem to manage to hunt small tracks of land. I've been in this position all my life. Little money and limited use of farm equipment. I currenlty hunt a 15 acre field that sits next to the interstate. Over the past five years I've seen five Boone and Crockett class Whitetails. Unfortuantely I have arrowed only one of the five and lost him on the adjoining farm. That farm has a hay field thats about 100 acres that hasn't been cut in years and the blood trail from that buck { the largest I'd ever shot} ended in that field leading to the loss of my dream deer. There are several ways to lure deer from those larger adjoining properties to your secert little honey hole. This week we'll cover food sources. I live and hunt in Kentucky and as you may already know we have a high succes rate of harvesting large antlered giants. The key to drawing in those big boys is giving them what they love. It's legal to bait deer in Kentucky and when your hunting 5,10,15 acres its almost necessary to do so. I have a Remington feeder that holds 225lbs. of corn and with the proper setting can last me a month. I don't over feed, I feed just enough to keep them coming back. Also, you have to make sure your setting on the feeding timer is set at appropriate times so that it's not going off during the time deer will be coming to feed. This cost me a nice buck last. The timer was set to go off at 4:00pm because the deer hadn't been visiting untill just before dark. But with my great luck the buck headed to the feeder at 3:55 taking his sweet time. Low and behold the feeder turns on and scared the buck and I didn't see him the rest of the season. So now I feed at 12:00pm and 4:00 am That seems to be working this year and they don't seem to be scared of the feeder at all. I love to tell my hunting stories and offer what I've learned over the years. I will be updating this page with more advice and more stories and would like to hear yours as well. Thanks for reading .

The Kentucky Gun Season just began this past weekend. It's an exciting time to be in the woods,with the rut in full swing.The big bucks are out of their nocturnal patterns and on the move searching for does in estrous.

With the high gas prices and other hunting apparel prices, you want that opening day to be perfect. However, there are many things that other hunters do that can affect your success rate.

People like me with very little property to hunt spend a lot of money on food plots or feeders to bring deer under their stands. But, the hunters on the farm next to where you are hunting make it impossible at times. This opening weekend I experienced this very thing, but not for the first time. The guys on the next farm knew I had a feeder set up to bring deer to me. They also know that the deer I shoot come over from the very property they hunt in order to feed. So, they strategically set along the fence line forming an invisible wall preventing deer movement in my area. Thats not only wrong but disrespectful. People like that are not true hunters. They rely their success on the management on the little guy, who has 1/4 of the property they have.

Another Don't is for you guys who like to trespass. DON'T DO IT! If you do, be discrete and not walk all over the entire property. And make sure your dogs are not following you. I would never shoot a person, but there are leash laws and people should respect their neighbors by keeping their dogs on their property.One day they might not come home.

I have experienced this, even this very weekend. People that hunt the fence lines and people who hunt property with out permission are not real hunter and shouldn't be able to purchase a permit, if they even have a permit to start with. People like me work too hard for deer we hunt, to have it ruined that opening day by ignorant, wanna be hunter.