#1834617 - 03/11/10 08:29 PM
Re: Kentucky Commission Proposes Deer & Elk Changes
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Locksley
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In the early 1970's, opening day in Hickman County sounded like
a high powered rifle dove shoot. Today, hunting areas are not as
concentrated as they were back then. This is because every
county in Tennessee (I think) has huntable numbers of deer
nowdays.
Thanks TWRA! There is probably a lot to what you said RKenney. My area used to sound closer to a war zone in the '80s and early '90s. But with the loss of "public" timber land to hunt and a much better deer herd in East TN, we don't have anywhere near the hunter density we used to have.
We also have fewer hunters now than we had back in the 1970s-1980s-1990s as with the lose of timber land to huntt lots of hunters were priced out of hunting in Hickman county.
The numbers of hunters has declined a lot because of the baby boomers getting old and not being able to hunt anymore.
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Hunting 2007: Decline in hunter numbers worries wildlife agencies
By Anne Holcomb
September 22, 2007, 9:32AM
By David Crary | Associated Press
Hunters remain a powerful force in American society, as evidenced by the presidential candidates who routinely pay them homage, but their ranks are shrinking dramatically and wildlife agencies worry increasingly about the loss of sorely needed license-fee revenue.
New figures from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service show that the number of hunters 16 and older declined by 10 percent between 1996 and 2006 -- from 14 million to about 12.5 million. The drop was most acute in New England, the Rocky Mountains, and the Pacific states, which lost 400,000 hunters in that span.
The primary reasons, experts say, are the loss of hunting land to urbanization plus a perception by many families that they can't afford the time or costs that hunting entails.
http://blog.mlive.com/kalamazoo_gazette_extra/2007/09/hunting_2007_decline_in_hunter.html
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#1835033 - 03/11/10 11:07 PM
Re: Kentucky Commission Proposes Deer & Elk Change
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Who cares about long gun seasons!!! Kentucky is a bow state. Don't ya'll know that. Stay out of Ky!!!! j/k  Anyways, KDFWR changes county zones just about every year. Now, I'm going to highjack. I saw some of you have hunted Todd County. What parts? That's where I'm from. I hunt the NW part of Todd County around " pilot rock ". Are you familiar with that area ? Me and a buddy hunt a 580 acre farm there and 1 or both of us usually kill a nice buck every year, 130 plus. I know it. Big deer in that area. I hunt some at my uncle's in Allegre not far away from pilot rock.
I'm familiar with Allegre, we use to go to the country store there to grab a burger at lunch and to see any bucks registered in the big buck contest. The last time we went down there it was closed down. I'm talkin about the one on the corner of Hwy 507. These areas are great areas for big bucks. We have killed some nice bucks and seen them even bigger and seen some monsters at the taxidermy shop heading back to Hoptown.
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#1837002 - 03/13/10 09:30 AM
Re: Kentucky Commission Proposes Deer & Elk Change
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IMHO, Ky DNR needs to spend some more money on LE in those counties that need to grow deer populations. Illegal hunting in the area of Ohio County where my farm is located is a worse culprit than EHD in keeping numbers low.
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#1837428 - 03/13/10 03:10 PM
Re: Kentucky Commission Proposes Deer & Elk Change
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B&C chaser
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IMHO, Ky DNR needs to spend some more money on LE in those counties that need to grow deer populations. Illegal hunting in the area of Ohio County where my farm is located is a worse culprit than EHD in keeping numbers low.
Illegal hunting is a problem in my area also. There is a public gravel road that runs by my farm and every day bout 30 - 45 mins before dark you hear the gravel start turning and some of the local poachers/trespassers are making their rounds. This gravel road overlooks some of our fields and during bow season just about the time the deer start coming out in the evenings these "regulars" start making their rounds and usually end up spooking the deer out of the fields by stopping and looking at the deer. I've not seen anybody shoot during bow season although I'm sure they have its just that by stopping and checking the fields they spook the deer, but its a public road. One morning while bow hunting the woods not far from one of our bigger fields a vehicle came down the road before daylight and used a Q-Beam to light up the field. Its kinda hard to hunt that feeding to bedding pattern with a vehicle in between you and the deer. This past season my buddy was hunting one of our stands when he could hear a vehicle coming down the gravel road. The vehicle stopped very close to where my buddies vehicle was parked, shots were fired, doors opened and shut , talking back and forth. I don't know if they killed anything or not but they shot in broad daylight within sight of my buddies vehicle knowing someone was hunting close by. Illegal hunting/poaching is a problem every where in every state but its hard to stop because GW's can't be everywhere in an entire county at the same time .
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#1837552 - 03/13/10 04:13 PM
Re: Kentucky Commission Proposes Deer & Elk Change
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I haven't hunted KY in a while, but where I use to hunt up there was pretty good. I've seen a couple true monsters and have managed to harvest a couple of dandys. I've never hunted west tn or an good farm around middle Tn, but I can say that my chances of harvesting a wall hanger in the part of KY where I hunted were better than the parts of TN I hunt. I personally prefer to hunt in the TN mountains just because it's my style and the big bucks are there, good or bad soil. I do have access to hunt a farm in Moore county that is loaded with deer, but I've never seen what I would consider a wall hanger while hunting.
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