I'm just wondering is all. There just seems to be so many know it alls here on the forum about ranch management, and I'm seein who has the majors to back it up actually, vs just blowin smoke.

I'm a Junior at Tarleton, and I have had 8 months worth of ranch management hands on. I got about 10 years worth of info though.

I don't have a degree from college in any king Wildlife Studies. My degree was in pre-med. But I do have 31 Years of being a Game Wardens son who was a Wildlife Bilogy Major from Texas A&M. I also worked for a Scientific Breeder for 5 years while paying my way through college at Tarleton State and Sam Houston. Managed a 5,000 acre ranch I hunted West of San Angelo for Whitetail and Turkey for 5 years and recently started this last year managing a 1,500 acre ranch in Jack County that I now hunt for Whitetail, Turkey, Hog and Coyote eradication. Have guided hunters, state representatives, speakers of the house, congressmen and pretty much every big wig that has ever had anything to do with TGWA in the last 15 years, since I was 16 and old enough to drive, 31 now. School of Been There - Done That and actually have hands on credentials to back up the statements I have made. I have done TV Shows with Dr. James Kroll and Ted Nugent for different wildlife shows, interviewed Ranch Managers who have Wildlife Science Degrees and Wildlife Biology degrees from pretty much every major university in the state of Texas. Have spent extensive time on the King Ranch visiting with the Ranch Managers there about their practices, in fact I was there last week for 3 days. I don't take the word of what one professor at college tells me or what I have read from one book to develop my opinions. If I do that, I am not a true student, I am a SHEEP.

So now that you have tried to figure out how much smarter you are then everyone else, go finish your degree and get out there and get some real world experience, before you keep popping off and calling other men liars.

Remember you can marry more money in 5 minutes than you can make in a lifetime.

Plan ahead.

Remember you can marry more money in 5 minutes than you can make in a lifetime.

Or you can bust your butt to make more money than you can spend in a lifetime and not have to worry about kissing some woman and her family's behind the rest of your life. That was the route I preferred.

To the OP, son the older you get, the more you realize how little you know.

There are a lot of people who post on here that havent spent a minute doing anything serious as it relates to managing a deer herd yet they get to state their opinion. There are also others who have spent countless hours and dollars learning everything they can from respected professionals in the business and they get to state their opinion as well. Someone having a degree in managing wildlife doesnt mean a hill of beans. I have seen an equal number of idiots with a degree as I have without. And I have seen an equal number of very smart successful people without a degree as with one. Classroom theory will only take you so far.

The bottom line is that the results of these studies are not the be all end all to deer management. You take out of them what you think will work for your deer herd and apply them to accomplish what you want to achieve. You record data and see where the trend is taking you. No matter what the direction, either positive or negative, you will constantly be tweeking your guidelines.

With your most recent posts, you are really coming off as a know it all/my way is the only way type guy whether you mean to or not. And never call out a respected professional on a public forum unless you have the goods to back it up publicly also. It makes you look really bad when you dont, not the other way around.

Graduated from Tech in Dec. 2000. Worked for a large water district for the last 8 years or so. The wildlife jobs I interviewed for out of college were super competetive. PHD grads were interviewing for the entry level jobs I interviewed for. My degree helped me get to where I am now but the only wildlife I am managing now is what lives on the small place I own and the other places I hunt.

I really really wish I would have had a clue in college and got a degree in Engineering. I do a lot of that now anyways.

I had a chance to work for a ranch for about $1200/month and a small house out of college. That was not going to cut it with a wife and son so I had to look elsewhere.

I am really glad I have the degree and I did it all on my own but man I really wish I would have chosen a field with more jobs.

I'm just wondering is all. There just seems to be so many know it alls here on the forum about ranch management, and I'm seein who has the majors to back it up actually, vs just blowin smoke.

I'm a Junior at Tarleton, and I have had 8 months worth of ranch management hands on. I got about 10 years worth of info though.

I'm just wondering is all. There just seems to be so many know it alls here on the forum about ranch management, and I'm seein who has the majors to back it up actually, vs just blowin smoke.

I'm a Junior at Tarleton, and I have had 8 months worth of ranch management hands on. I got about 10 years worth of info though.

Or you can bust your butt to make more money than you can spend in a lifetime and not have to worry about kissing some woman and her family's behind the rest of your life. That was the route I preferred.

To the OP, son the older you get, the more you realize how little you know.

There are a lot of people who post on here that havent spent a minute doing anything serious as it relates to managing a deer herd yet they get to state their opinion. There are also others who have spent countless hours and dollars learning everything they can from respected professionals in the business and they get to state their opinion as well. Someone having a degree in managing wildlife doesnt mean a hill of beans. I have seen an equal number of idiots with a degree as I have without. And I have seen an equal number of very smart successful people without a degree as with one. Classroom theory will only take you so far.

The bottom line is that the results of these studies are not the be all end all to deer management. You take out of them what you think will work for your deer herd and apply them to accomplish what you want to achieve. You record data and see where the trend is taking you. No matter what the direction, either positive or negative, you will constantly be tweeking your guidelines.

With your most recent posts, you are really coming off as a know it all/my way is the only way type guy whether you mean to or not. And never call out a respected professional on a public forum unless you have the goods to back it up publicly also. It makes you look really bad when you dont, not the other way around.

Dude, take a chill pill, dang. I never said I was smarter than anybody, I just want to know if theres people on here that actually know what theyre talking about. I am working on finishing my degree, and I am still learning, but feel I know a little bit. And I do have real world experience sir. I still dont believe everything Kroll talks about though.
Also, whoever made mention of it, Tarleton has one of the top Wildlife programs in the state right now, so hopefully that answers your question.

I probably worded it a way I didnt necessarily mean, my bad. I already said I have a lot to learn, but I do have a little bit of knowledge. I have more learning to do over known knowledge though. I'm admitting that, so I don't understand why I keep getting called out on it.

you called Dr. Kroll a liar in another thread, and you have nothing at all (except your junior level education) to back it up.

Am I calling "your" biologist out? I asked if your opinion had anything to do with the fact the ranch in your signature line has a biologist that worked on the kerr study as a college student.

If you're going to start throwing stones junior, make sure you're not in a glass house.

I'm not calling out Kroll, i just dont believe everything he has done is all. And I wouldnt call our Wildlife Biologist out sir, thats a big mistake.