Lee Ticknor manages for wildlife on Rock Bottom Ranch in Oklahoma with the help of two teenage boys. The boys work hard planting food plots, fixing fences to keep cows out of the food plots, and other chores around the farm to earn their right to hunt. They spend their down time in a roping pen, roping goats. Lee is team roper and uses that, the cattle farm and a sells hunts as a monetary means to keep the farm going.
Mississippi State Deer Lab is conducting a study to better predict rut zones in Mississippi. In addition to this study they are swapping antlers on same size and age bucks and putting them in adjacent pens to a hot doe and see if she prefers bucks with bigger antlers.
Adam Osmun of Grand Rack Hunting Club in Michigan explains some of the challenges he faces as a Gamekeeper. When developing a management plan for the property he found that Grand Rack was a big swamp an ongoing beaver problem, rocky soil from being in a glacier drop zone, and a low deer density d...
Austin Mussellman tells the story of a giant buck that he tracks for years through game camera pics and ultimately with the help of his friends works out a game plan to harvest the buck.
Austin and his crew also conduct a controlled burn and search for shed antlers on the property.