We own a 300 acre farm in N.E.Kentucky. The deer there are indeed larger, and there are some excellent trophy animals in the N.E. corner of the state, if you are into that (I am not). One fellow killed a non typical on our farm that had 29 points over an inch long. I know nothing about the B and C scoring system, but it was an impressive looking animal. Out of state licenses were less than 150 dollars the last ime I bought one.
The problem I have, on my own place, is unauthorized hunters. There is a general attitude that you can hunt wherever you want, and no one can do anything about it. This is true for all practical purposes. With the population density so low, there are few resourses to pay conservation officers, and deputy sherrifs have other fish to fry as well. It seems that reesponse time is so slow that the tresapasser is gone long before the law can get there. I wonder if they would dawdle if I shot some @$$hole for poaching? Probably not. It just seems that game laws are a low priority when resources are stretched thin. I wouldn't feel good about leasing my property to anyone knowing that the neighbors would wander around hunting anytime, anyplace, in season or out, and leasors would be getting screwed.
I really thought about planting food plots, placing salt licks and other things to make a better habitat for deer, but it would be a waste of time and money. I would hesitate to book a hunt in any of the more rural areas of Kentucky if I were you. Your experience will most likely be like Greybeard descibed. Pleny of deer in parks and other protected areas, and non in any area that is more rural, and doesn't have constant law enforcement patrol.
What i have decided to do is just let the Rat Ba$t@rds kill all the deer. The only way to get rid of the "hunters" is to get rid of the deer. I truly wished it was legal to poision the deer there. I just can't understand how it is right for me to pay income taxes and property taxes, so that some worthles POS can draw a disability check and ride around on a newer four wheeler than I have, with a better rifle than I have, With all the time in the world to shoot "my" deer. Not to mention the fact that there is a huge national park less than ten mile s down the road. I wonder who contributed more to that, me or the "disabled "guy? If he is able to drag a deer out of the woods, he should get off his @$$ and get a job, don't you think?
Sorry for venting here, but as you can tell I have just about had it with "deer hunters" who are nothing but poachers. I like to hunt,too, although mostly for meat, and not for sport. The only way I have ever even seen deer on our farm is to get out way before the season starts, and wouldn't it be something to get a ticket for shooting deer out of season on your own place? ("everybody else does" is not a legitamate excuse) I am currently looking to join a club in SC or Georgia. Trouble with that is the clubs are mostly for trophy hunters, and they don't usually apreciate you piling up the first five or six does you see, if it is even legal. I guess I will just take my vaction time, work a little overtime, and buy a beef.