#1937214 - 05/24/10 04:39 PM
Re: World Class Leases in TN
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mathews338
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Wes,
SPOT-ON!
and to beat all, a hunter might just kill a 170 inch grossing buck once in a while!
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#1937465 - 05/24/10 08:52 PM
Re: World Class Leases in TN
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Trust me, it can and has happened!
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#1957244 - 06/11/10 07:05 PM
Re: World Class Leases in TN
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SpursNFeathers
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You're right, Beekeeper. Bowater is out of the land management business.
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#1957523 - 06/12/10 05:45 AM
Re: World Class Leases in TN
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the main problem with TN. is the hunters, IMO.
it's hard to get a deer to the 160-180 class when you shoot them at 100-120. when the annual harvest is made up more of 1.5-2.5 year old deer, then how can a deer get to 160"?
I think that the terrain in west tn. also has something to do with it. In my county, Haywood, there are lots of river bottom acreage full of swamps and cutover. getting close to these deer bedded up in these spots is impossible.
Just because you don't see them, doesn't mean that they are not there......
IMO, for every BIG deer that is killed, there are plenty more out there that may never be killed or even seen in the daylight.
One farm I hunt has a HUGE (according to the farmer and another hunter nearby)deer living there......the farmer only sees him at night or right at dusk and the hunter only has a trail cam pic of him...also ay night. The hunter thought he was a ten pointer or better and might go in the 160s. The farmer doesn't hunt and the only way he can describe the deer is ...BIG MUTHA!
I know several nice farms , in my county alone, that allow no hunting at all. One of these farms is along the hatchie river . other fams are restricted access, family owned deals with little to no pressure on them.......a deer could get really old and really big in some of these areas.....
BH
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