#1717363 - 01/10/10 09:24 AM
Re: Statewide Kill Down.........
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This definitely seems to be the consensus, we can only hope we arent sorta starting over with most of the older bucks somehow 'gone'??
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#1717391 - 01/10/10 09:46 AM
Re: Statewide Kill Down.........
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This definitely seems to be the consensus, we can only hope we arent sorta starting over with most of the older bucks somehow 'gone'??
I picked up mature bucks later in the season, after my baited census was over, but why I couldn't get them on cam during the summer--and neither could many others--is a big question. I suspect it was something environmental that was region-wide.
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#1717419 - 01/10/10 10:03 AM
Re: Statewide Kill Down.........
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I picked up mature bucks later in the season, after my baited census was over, but why I couldn't get them on cam during the summer--and neither could many others--is a big question. I suspect it was something environmental that was region-wide.
Maybe due the higher amount of rain fall and subsequent increase in browse kept the overall travel patterns to a minimum?... 
That's as good a guess as any.
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#1717602 - 01/10/10 12:14 PM
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ehd imo
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#1721043 - 01/12/10 09:13 AM
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Well for me it was kinda the samething, I ran a camera all season long from June to the end of December. I photographed 18 different bucks on a trail cam in front of a trophy rock. All the bucks I had during the summer months disappeared right when season started and I picked up a whole other group of bucks but I only laid eyes on 4 antlered deer all season long and the 9 point I killed this year I didn't have a single pic of him on a cam that was 75 yards away from where I shot him at! I don't know it was just a crazy year!
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#1722835 - 01/13/10 05:45 AM
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we have had doe quota hunts the past 3 or 4 years for the first time ever. This year it seems everyone I talk to says the same thing, their not seeing near as many does this year...
Maybe the REASON you're not seeing does is BECAUSE they've been shot at for past 3 or 4 years for the 1'st time ever. It doesn't take them long to figure it out.
I'm not against taking does but if you think you can't shoot out a piece of property think again .I personally know of a bunch of hunters that had a prime piece of property in Linclon Co. ( approx. 2000 acres)that seemed so good that they bought about a 2 acre tract that joined it and put a double wide trailer on it to have a place to stay . Well they were shooting everything that was legal even fawns , stacking their numbers for a few years . Then it happened , very low deer sightings so low that they didn't renew the lease and even had to sell the property they owned at reduced price . I think we have to be reasonable when we want to reduce does and don't shoot everything you have a tag for (opinion). Also relating to Tennessee harvest numbers I think having the late bow season when T.W.R.A. did may have hurt the harvest a little (opiion).
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#1722960 - 01/13/10 07:26 AM
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I have never gotten so many pictures of mature bucks as I did this year. From all different regions in this part of the state. Not only good numbers of 3.5+, but good numbers of all age classes, except maybe a little lacking in 1.5 year old bucks.
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#1723136 - 01/13/10 09:10 AM
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I'm not against taking does but if you think you can't shoot out a piece of property think again .I personally know of a bunch of hunters that had a prime piece of property in Linclon Co. ( approx. 2000 acres)that seemed so good that they bought about a 2 acre tract that joined it and put a double wide trailer on it to have a place to stay . Well they were shooting everything that was legal even fawns , stacking their numbers for a few years . Then it happened , very low deer sightings so low that they didn't renew the lease and even had to sell the property they owned at reduced price).
Again, you just proved the point. They shot deer like crazy so the deer stopped moving during daylight. That doesn't mean the deer weren't there, just that the deer reacted to intense harvest pressure by going nocturnal.
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