#2003617 - 07/22/10 12:43 PM
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khawk
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Registered: 08/20/08
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Loc: Wears Valley
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Just curious as to what each of you put in for. I know there are those that put in for P.I., but Im curious as to where you want to return year after year. Oak Ridge is mine. Ive never killed a hoss there but ive got my spot where I go that always has good sign. Ive seen some dandy bucks crusin by but theyve been just out of range.
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#2003632 - 07/22/10 12:50 PM
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tickweed
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Registered: 11/25/09
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Loc: medon,Tn.
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Well, not a WMA, but can I say Reelfoot NWR? Long point is my favorite spot.
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#2003646 - 07/22/10 12:57 PM
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stik
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Registered: 03/12/99
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Loc: lenoir city,tn
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it's hard enough to get a permit now. i aint telling!!!  but i will say i absolutely hate oak ridge  I know stik .. but I will not tell !! 
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#2003664 - 07/22/10 01:16 PM
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Football Hunter
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Registered: 10/22/07
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Loc: Wilson Co/Perry Co
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OHWMA,I like hunting by boat a few times a year
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#2003666 - 07/22/10 01:17 PM
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warrent423
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Registered: 09/11/07
Posts: 634
Loc: Tenn. McMinn, Athens
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south cherokee for me; Plenty of quality land and plenty of game.
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#2003749 - 07/22/10 02:12 PM
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Buzzard Breath
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Registered: 07/31/06
Posts: 1184
Loc: East
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Quota hunt is Oak Ridge. Not that I think it's the best WMA, it's just the one I can draw year after year and the better I know it, the better my hunting there gets.
Non-quota hunt is Foothills WMA. It's certainly not because the hunting is great. I guess I just like hiking around the mountain with a 7 pound weight in my hand that gets to fling a bullet every couple of years. Where I hunt, I have to really want to kill the deer I'm looking at before I shoot it.
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#2004047 - 07/22/10 08:42 PM
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browtines
8 Point
Registered: 09/22/07
Posts: 1088
Loc: kodak, tennessee
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If you want to know stiks fav place just PM me and I will give you my address and when I get the $50 in the mail... I will give him up....LOL
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#2004083 - 07/22/10 09:08 PM
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ShaneHallum
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Registered: 08/30/08
Posts: 11459
Loc: Belk Tennessee
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I still like AEDC..
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#2004210 - 07/22/10 10:28 PM
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moondawg
16 Point
Registered: 06/19/02
Posts: 17777
Loc: Millington, TN
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I haven't hunted it in a while, but I like John Tully WMA.
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#2004278 - 07/22/10 11:44 PM
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stik
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16 Point
Registered: 03/12/99
Posts: 18428
Loc: lenoir city,tn
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If you want to know stiks fav place just PM me and I will give you my address and when I get the $50 in the mail... I will give him up....LOL
ok. i see how you are. the gloves are off. i will hunt "your" thicket if i want to.
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#2004403 - 07/23/10 08:05 AM
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moondog
8 Point
Registered: 08/17/02
Posts: 1385
Loc: benton station tn usa
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Arnold Hollow for deer, South Cherokee for hogs.
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#2004573 - 07/23/10 10:49 AM
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DOC1187
16 Point
Registered: 06/14/08
Posts: 10384
Loc: east tn
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CHUCK SWAN the camping atmosphere just love that place
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#2005101 - 07/23/10 07:28 PM
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Timber Ghost
8 Point
Registered: 09/07/08
Posts: 1264
Loc: Tn. Blount
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I used to love AEDC, couldn't wait for the 1st drawn bow hunt each year. Sometimes got the 1st hunt, sometimes got the 2nd hunt, and sometimes was lucky enough to get both. Always had action, saw lots of dear and usually got a shot. Killed my fair share over the yrs., that is until the last 8 to 10 yrs., somthing changed and I am not sure what, but, it is definately different now. I didn't even go last year, and probably won't this year. Now I mostly hunt Catoosa and priv. prop.
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#2005117 - 07/23/10 07:49 PM
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Boone 58
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Registered: 06/23/04
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Loc: Food Plot
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Eagle creek...though no quota now. I put in for Laurel Hill now. I swear i am going to get me a good one from there one of these years.....lol.
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#2005233 - 07/23/10 09:17 PM
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whistlinwingman
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Registered: 07/11/05
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Loc: Morristown
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Oak Ridge for me. My dad, brother, and me have been there the last 4 or 5 years. We enjoy the cooking while camping and having a good weekend. Pops killed a 107lb doe the first year and I missed a heavy massed 9 point and and saw a definite "book" deer. Since, we've only saw 1.5 old bucks. We don't put in for inside the fence anymore. But all the other areas seem to give you an opportunity at a good buck.
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#2005316 - 07/23/10 10:41 PM
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RKenney
10 Point
Registered: 03/15/08
Posts: 3633
Loc: Maury Co.
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I don't hunt a WMA anymore, but Laurel Hill is where I would put
in for, if I did. LH doesn't have the stats in the last few
years, but I know for a fact that it has a long history of
producing some huge bucks.
It has alot of older timber that needs to be harvested, but I
will bet there are areas that have good cover. There has been
alot of bad storms in that area...if you know what I'm talking
about.
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#2005322 - 07/23/10 10:46 PM
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browtines
8 Point
Registered: 09/22/07
Posts: 1088
Loc: kodak, tennessee
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If you want to know stiks fav place just PM me and I will give you my address and when I get the $50 in the mail... I will give him up....LOL ok. i see how you are. the gloves are off. i will hunt "your" thicket if i want to.
ok...Stik... You win....Stay out of my thicket,,,,
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#2005395 - 07/24/10 05:36 AM
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ghosthunter
10 Point
Registered: 11/30/04
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Loc: chattanooga
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#2005636 - 07/24/10 01:14 PM
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sgtwebb1
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Registered: 08/06/00
Posts: 8448
Loc: Ooltewah/Harrison TN, USA
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Used to love Oak Ridge, but last year we had no less than 8 extremely rude, noisy idiots walk all over us, even with me giving them some loud verbal insights into their rude behavior.
3 different groups did it to us. We moved to another area, got walked over again first thing next morning.
Both of these places were pretty far from the road, had to hump in hard.
Saw them from a good ways off, tried waving them off with my blaze orange hat, they just ignored me, tromped right past, and setup within sight of me.
I doubt if we'll go back there.
Good deer, have killed some good ones there, but there are too many hunters on that place. I know it's 37000 acres, but the way it's broken up, the gun zone only totals about half of that, and the 500 hunters get concentrated.Boils down to 37 acres per hunter. I wouldn't pay for a lease with that ratio, so why hunt public land with that kinda ratio??
TWRA needs to drop the Oak Rige quota, maybe add an extra hunt.
I liked it better in the old days, when the gun zone was much larger, it wasn't near as crowded.
So, my favorite?
Catoosa, by far and away.
Plenty of deer, 80,000 unbroken acres, plenty of camp space, good quality animals, and I've never seen another hunter near my honeyhole, which is exactly 1.2 miles deep in the woods.
80,00 acres provides for 64 acres per hunter on the gun quota hunts. Twice as much as Oak Ridge.
My opinion.
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#2005643 - 07/24/10 01:23 PM
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Diehard Hunter
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Registered: 08/01/08
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Loc: East Tennessee
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Used to love Oak Ridge, but last year we had no less than 8 extremely rude, noisy idiots walk all over us, even with me giving them some loud verbal insights into their rude behavior.
3 different groups did it to us. We moved to another area, got walked over again first thing next morning.
Both of these places were pretty far from the road, had to hump in hard.
Saw them from a good ways off, tried waving them off with my blaze orange hat, they just ignored me, tromped right past, and setup within sight of me.
I doubt if we'll go back there.
Good deer, have killed some good ones there, but there are too many hunters on that place. I know it's 37000 acres, but the way it's broken up, the gun zone only totals about half of that, and the 500 hunters get concentrated.Boils down to 37 acres per hunter. I wouldn't pay for a lease with that ratio, so why hunt public land with that kinda ratio??
TWRA needs to drop the Oak Rige quota, maybe add an extra hunt.
I liked it better in the old days, when the gun zone was much larger, it wasn't near as crowded.
So, my favorite?
Catoosa, by far and away.
Plenty of deer, 80,000 unbroken acres, plenty of camp space, good quality animals, and I've never seen another hunter near my honeyhole, which is exactly 1.2 miles deep in the woods.
80,00 acres provides for 64 acres per hunter on the gun quota hunts. Twice as much as Oak Ridge.
My opinion.
I had the same thing happen last year at Oak ridge. i would say they weren't real happy when I locked the gate behind me as I left them to do their drives. However, I consistently kill good deer there so i will keep going back as long as I can get drawn.
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#2005651 - 07/24/10 01:31 PM
Re: Favorite WMA
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redcorn
4 Point
Registered: 09/07/06
Posts: 252
Loc: Chattanooga, TN.
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I've only really been to Catoosa. Let's just say i'm glad they lowered the quota; though I have had good experiences there with barbecue chicken and deer burgers.
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