#1709941 - 01/06/10 07:14 AM
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Bottom Hunter
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Talking with numerous hunters every year and seeing/hearing about where they hunt in the county, I have come to a very simple conclusion to it all.
IMO, there is not one square mile where numerous deer DO NOT live or travel in Haywood County. Many large deer are taken every year within a stone's throw of major roads and human activity.
I challenge anyone to walk out in to any fields in this area and not find deer tracks, even in the city limits. My wife texted me one day while I was way out in the Bottoms trying to kill a deer and her text was simple..."There's a big buck in the field next to our house." My yard borders the city limits and there are houses all around me in every direction.
I'm not really sure what it's like in Middle and East Tn., but I do know that if you hunt in West Tn. and can't kill a deer, then maybe you need to seriously consider some other outdoor activity.... 
The simplicity of it is really overwhelming to me......
Go find some tracks and have a seat......patience is key.
Today's deer hunter has it better than most any other hunter has it. Most all of us complain most every year about one thing or another...The limits aren't what we think they should be, we need a size limit, the season is not laid out as we would like, and so forth. Do you think that maybe deer hunters are some of the most selfish hunters in the world....?
Many species are dwindling such as rabbits and quail (or have already gone below good numbers)and even duck hunters suffer some bad years due to nothing more than a lack of water.
But, deer hunters enjoy increasing numbers of deer every year. The liberal bag limits and the daily sightings of deer all around my hometown are enough evidence for me.
So..............unless you can come up with a better reason to complain than the reasons that we have now, then maybe you should go buy a pack of beagles or a Lab and take up some other type of hunting. One that will let you truly have something to complain about.
JMO
BH
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#1709946 - 01/06/10 07:18 AM
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No lack of deer here in Wilson county,or in Perry county
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#1710039 - 01/06/10 08:11 AM
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Good post! Nuff said.
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#1710044 - 01/06/10 08:13 AM
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go hunt someother states and u will appreciate tn. i wish i had moved up here sooner
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#1710047 - 01/06/10 08:15 AM
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Baxter83
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Nice! That's the way I see it as well.
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#1710373 - 01/06/10 11:08 AM
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Yup! Just head out first thing in the morning after all of the snow has fallen. You will be amazed at the amount of tracks.
Now back when Bowriter first started, you had to go up hill both ways, in two feet of snow, barefooted, wearin' nothin but a fig leaf to go hunt deer. You would sit for a whole year and maybe never see a deer track. These kids today just don't realize how good they got it! LOL!
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#1710409 - 01/06/10 11:31 AM
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mathews338
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great post agree 100%
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#1710827 - 01/06/10 04:01 PM
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Bottom Hunter, preach on my friend, couldn't have said it better...
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#1711013 - 01/06/10 05:39 PM
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Many species are dwindling such as rabbits
then maybe you should go buy a pack of beagles
BH
I got enough for two packs and rabbits are as plentiful as they have ever been. Went twice last weekend and never took the dogs over 15 minutes to jump one.
This all on public land.
Now quail is a different story. IN all the walking I do with dogs during the year, I might jump 20 total quail a year and I know I have to be hunting the best quail habitat around. The quail situation is sad indeed.
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#1711428 - 01/06/10 08:28 PM
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Great post... and very true...
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#1711867 - 01/07/10 05:52 AM
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Bottom Hunter
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Many species are dwindling such as rabbits
then maybe you should go buy a pack of beagles
BH I got enough for two packs and rabbits are as plentiful as they have ever been. Went twice last weekend and never took the dogs over 15 minutes to jump one. This all on public land. Now quail is a different story. IN all the walking I do with dogs during the year, I might jump 20 total quail a year and I know I have to be hunting the best quail habitat around. The quail situation is sad indeed.
I must apologize. I was speaking from Haywood County experience and not from GENERAL persective.
Today's farmers and even sod farmers have cleaned most every thicket and fencerow to the point that rabbits and quail have no place to breed and escape predators....at least that's the case in Haywood County.
Areas where I used to hunt that had the prettiest set-up of fencerows, ditches and half acre thickets and brushpiles now look like parking lots (clean and flat).
I'm not dissing the farmers . they gotta do..blah, blah, blah.
I will say that, back in the day, I had five beagles that would run the ears off a rabbit. I enjoyed many many days hunting them. Later, after I lost those dogs, I teamed up with a fellow hunter that had some dogs and we continued to hunt for a few more years.
I love to rabbit hunt, when there's rabbits. Love to quail hunt as well. Did that off horseback for many years with my father.
These days, I'm in a tree or on the couch....haha.
I will go on the occasional duck hunt or squirrel hunt, but not like I used to......
I guess you can say that I retired to the deer stand....
And, I have nothing to complain about right now, but give me a minute..haha.
BH
Edited by Bottom Hunter (01/07/10 05:53 AM)
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#1712478 - 01/07/10 10:22 AM
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Good post Bottom Hunter. I agree with most of what u say. You did leave out the part about deer hunters have become the laziest hunters. Most take the easiest rout to stand, use 4wheelers etc. In doing this along with going in the woods more during the off season to feed, run cameras, scouting to much etc without being cautious has made the deer smarter and more aware of us which has made them more nocturnal and harder to hunt.
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#1712492 - 01/07/10 10:29 AM
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Bottom Hunter
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Good post Bottom Hunter. I agree with most of what u say. You did leave out the part about deer hunters have become the laziest hunters. Most take the easiest rout to stand, use 4wheelers etc. In doing this along with going in the woods more during the off season to feed, run cameras, scouting to much etc without being cautious has made the deer smarter and more aware of us which has made them more nocturnal and harder to hunt.
Don't get me started on how technology has made the deer hunter more lazy than skilled.........sometimes I think that they should just call it deer shooting......
But, that is for another time...... 
BH
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#1712691 - 01/07/10 11:31 AM
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Now back when Bowriter first started, you had to go up hill both ways, in two feet of snow, barefooted, wearin' nothin but a fig leaf to go hunt deer. You would sit for a whole year and maybe never see a deer track. These kids today just don't realize how good they got it! LOL!
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#1712877 - 01/07/10 01:17 PM
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Bottom Hunter
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Now back when Bowriter first started, you had to go up hill both ways, in two feet of snow, barefooted, wearin' nothin but a fig leaf to go hunt deer. You would sit for a whole year and maybe never see a deer track. These kids today just don't realize how good they got it! LOL! LOL, I hear ya, and if you dont believe it just ask him, he will tell ya all about it!
Back in 1974 when I first started hunting deer, I believe that the only thing more harder to find than deer were deer hunters....
I believe that the limit was ONE antlered deer per season.
if you went to a local convenient store at that hour of the morning 4-5 a.m.), the only people there were cops and paper chunkers....
Things have come a long way, for sure.
BH
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