#1158587 - 02/01/09 06:57 PM
Re: '07 v '08 County Harvest Comparison
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smstone22
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I really dont like what I see for Fentress County. Doe harvest down, buck harvest up. Not good at all. Pickett County, which is real close to my land, fell horribly. I know you cant base things off one year but from what Im seeing as a trend over a number of years, my area must become more conservative.
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#1158925 - 02/01/09 10:06 PM
Re: '07 v '08 County Harvest Comparison
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gil1
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Incredible data.
I will say this about does. On my lease in Hickman County, I pass up bucks all the time. I usually kill a mature buck every 2 or 3 years. But I have never passed up a doe before. I usually have the opportunity to kill 2 to 5 does per year, and I take it every chance I get. I actually let 3 does walk right under me one day this year just because I think our numbers are down from EHD. Perhaps others had the same thought.
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#1159063 - 02/02/09 06:51 AM
Re: '07 v '08 County Harvest Comparison
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Boy that traditional management in Unit B sticks out like a sore thumb.
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#1159136 - 02/02/09 07:49 AM
Re: '07 v '08 County Harvest Comparison
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JCDEERMAN
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gil1, Our area in Hickman County was hit hard with EHD. The deer sightings were down this year dramatically. I saw deer up until around mid-november, then they just disappeared. That never happens at our place. Yea, they become more scarce from the guns and hunters, but we can always at least go out and kill a doe...NOT the case this year or last. We have a 1 hour drive to our cabin. We used to see deer all the time, 10-15 of them on our way down and going home. That was leading up to 06'. I guess we are just gonna have to wait another year or 2. Lets just hope that they bounce back like they are supposed to.
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#1159416 - 02/02/09 10:26 AM
Re: '07 v '08 County Harvest Comparison
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ferg
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sounds about right - I had an increased number of sits - and fewer sightings than '07 - but we did have hard EHD hits in our area - I passed on all young deer this year -
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#1159554 - 02/02/09 11:16 AM
Re: '07 v '08 County Harvest Comparison
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Our area in Hickman County was hit hard with EHD. The deer sightings were down this year dramatically. I saw deer up until around mid-november, then they just disappeared.
That's an extremely common experience this year in the hardest hit EHD areas of last year. Definitely some unusual deer movement atterns this year in those areas. It appears the peak of breeding has been highly variable in these areas the last two years--very late in '07 and very early in '08. Now whether or not that really happened is unknown, as I know of no one collecting enough fetuses late in the season to get good conception dates, but anecdotal data from across the area was amazingly consistent with this view.
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#1159561 - 02/02/09 11:19 AM
Re: '07 v '08 County Harvest Comparison
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BowGuy84
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Hickman was tough hunting for us too this year. Usual slam dunk stands produced a sighting or two. Late in the year some deer were seen bunched up as usual, but up until then they were tough to find!
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#1159575 - 02/02/09 11:22 AM
Re: '07 v '08 County Harvest Comparison
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Hickman was tough hunting for us too this year. Usual slam dunk stands produced a sighting or two. Late in the year some deer were seen bunched up as usual, but up until then they were tough to find!
In the Hickman, Humphreys, Dickson, Houston, Perry and Stewart Counties area, the most common pattern I'm hearing was of the rut kicking in hard about mid-way through the 1st MZ season, running through most of the two weeks of bow season following 1st MZ, but being completely over and dead by the opening of 1st gun season. Deer sightings were then few and far between until early January, when doe groups were bunched up again.
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#1159606 - 02/02/09 11:30 AM
Re: '07 v '08 County Harvest Comparison
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My observations dropped way off during the two weeks of bow season , compared to the peak in Mz. season .
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