Thought some of you might find this interesting.
McAlester Ammo Plant in in the SE portion of Oklahoma and consists of approx. 45,000 acres which is fenced and some what guarded.
I don't know what they produce specifically, but I've heard they make some of the "big" bombs that the gov't uses.
This 45,000 acres holds probably the best deer herd in OK. It is managed by the OK Dept. of Wildlife on a draw basis. Hunting is allowed for
traditional archery only (recurves and longbows). NO compounds, sights, rangefinders, binoculars,..etc. This is not a canned hunt. The deer free range all over this place and the success rate is around 10%-15%.
Because of this the bucks can live for a LONG time and they get Extremely wary. I hear the bucks and does on this place can hear you break a sweat.
The bucks are so huge that the biologists usually give them names and chronicle their growth thru yearly photographs. I got drawn once about 15 years ago and they had pics of a particular buck for 12 years in a row. They think he died of old age.
Well, they have a website now that I thought some of you might like to see.
This link is the
[color:#3333FF]2010 Results[/color][/b] with some pics of some nice bucks taken last year. At the bottom of the page you can see pics of "[b]10 most wanted" bucks that were believed to have made it thru the season.
This link is some of the
[b][color:#3333FF]All Time Greats[/color][/b] that have lived on the plant. I would guess that most of these probably died of old age and were not killed by a hunter.
Anyhow, IMO it's nice to see what some age will do for a buck. These deer aren't imports from up north. They're just OK deer that were allowed to mature and breed.