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Reid Vander Veen Growing big bucks with Raks supplements
I’m glad you brought that up too. And I’m glad you called it a “family,” because that’s really what it is for us guys and gals on the RAKS team. It’s a ton of fun to be a part of. Chris Edwards, you mentioned Chris, and the operation, the guys over at RAKS Big Game, I’m obviously biased, but there truly isn’t a better product out there for supplementing your deer herd and nutrition for the deer herd. Reid Vander Veen Growing big bucks with Raks supplements
That’s a great question. So like you said, there’s not over-large expanses of timber, at least not a ton of them. There’s some certainly, but not as many as other states. But if you approach it right, what that could do is than can really help narrow down your field of operation. Really if you can find, like you said, a small, 20, 40, even smaller, acre piece of land that you can either get access to hunt, or public land, you take everything you learned, or read, or studied up on for whitetail hunting and you condense it to a small area. Reid Vander Veen Growing big bucks with Raks supplements
So you’ve got bucks that like to behave the same as they do everywhere else. They need shelter; they need food; they need water. And now you’ve got big open areas, but much more condensed, much smaller areas where each of those three vital things are. So you could hunt over a small batch of trees, or you could hunt over a food plot maybe, or a watering hole. You just really narrow it down, you know, with good management practices or good studying practices. You get a trail cam out and you start patterning some deer, it really allows you, I think anyway, an opportunity to laser focus in and make it a little bit easier.
Bruce: Now we’re talking East River, correct?
So there is a little bit of a rivalry between us East River folks and the West River folks
Reid: Correct. Yeah, East River. So there is a little bit of a rivalry between us East River folks and the West River folks. You might not want to get me started on that!
Bruce: That was really different. It was sure different. So when you’re hunting East River, is a 150 buck Mr. Wonderful? Or are we talking Boone and Crockett quality?
Reid: No. You’re going to have people that say things all over the map on this. I think, with really good management practices, and proper nutrition, and herd health, and things like that, it’s not uncommon for our farm, where we’re doing most of our hunting, we’ve taken 160, 170, 180 class deer over the last few years consistently. I mean, there’s certain things that you’ve got to have. If you’re going to want to take that big of a deer you’ve got to have patience, and you’ve got to put in the hard work and energy to let those 140s and 150s walk if you can help it.
I’m going to celebrate with you just as much for that as if you shot that boomer
I’m the type of guy that I like to think that, you know, we go after big mature bucks because we’re fortunate enough to have some property that we can do that on. But to me, whatever your standard is, whatever your metric is. If you’re going out there to fill the freezer and you’re not trophy hunting, you’re not going to see any judgment from me. If you’re going to take a 140, 150 class deer, I’m going to celebrate with you just as much for that as if you shot that boomer.
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