#2018574 - 08/05/10 07:34 AM
Re: shooting Doe??
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tndrbstr
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I have no facts to support it but last year was a really strange year. You can say that again! But I don't think it was due to changes in hunting dates. I feel strongly it was driven by environmental conditions (climate). year before last were'nt no picnic either...least not where I hunted.. Yup, that was the EHD year, which threw another monkey wrench into everything.
that was also the year that we had many of the oaks and other trees around here keeping and holding their green leaves looong after they should have been gone. even the robins didn't act like they normaly do to me....it seemed like almost every sign of fall missed the que.......it was crazy...
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#2018616 - 08/05/10 08:06 AM
Re: shooting Doe??
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BSK
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Loc: Nashville, TN
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I have no facts to support it but last year was a really strange year. You can say that again! But I don't think it was due to changes in hunting dates. I feel strongly it was driven by environmental conditions (climate). year before last were'nt no picnic either...least not where I hunted.. Yup, that was the EHD year, which threw another monkey wrench into everything. that was also the year that we had many of the oaks and other trees around here keeping and holding their green leaves looong after they should have been gone. even the robins didn't act like they normaly do to me....it seemed like almost every sign of fall missed the que.......it was crazy...
Yup. Late freeze in spring, no acorns, record summer heat, severe drought, and a major EHD outbreak. Wrap all those together and you've got some real fluky deer patterns.
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#2018712 - 08/05/10 09:10 AM
Re: shooting Doe??
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Wes Parrish
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Loc: Knoxville-Dover-Union City, TN
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Often, we can't CONTROL as much about the deer herd and hunting as we would like to believe, especially if we're only "managing" 500 acres or less. We can make positive changes, but our situation may be more "controlled" by the surrounding 5,000 acres than by the 500 acres we control.
In the absence of other data and identifiable factors, I believe a good "Rule of Thumb" for many hunters may be simply to focus on killing at least as many female as male deer wherever you hunt. May not be possible every year, but certainly very doable over every 3-year time frame.
If you average killing 2 or 3 deer a year, you might want to see something like having taken 3 or 4 antlered and 4 or 5 antlerless over a 3-year period. Just a good HEALTHY "rule of thumb" in the absence of other factors.
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