#2160404 - 11/11/10 07:27 PM
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knightrider
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We experienced some of the highest deer and especially buck sighting rates we've ever had, even though the deer population is at its lowest point in many years.
How do you know that the population is lower than it has been in years? Just wondering. I always seem to see them in the woods and just about anywhere in Mid TN.
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#2160462 - 11/11/10 07:48 PM
Re: seeing any deer
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Seeing lots of deer, mostly first and last couple hours of light, but also chasing during the day for the past week or so.
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#2160518 - 11/11/10 08:15 PM
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been see them everytime i get to go to the woods i seen 5 sunday i small six pointer that i let walk and bout 5 minutes later a bid mature doe and her yearling stepped out into the field and i took the mature doe. havent bn since that evening though.
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#2160945 - 11/12/10 07:34 AM
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We experienced some of the highest deer and especially buck sighting rates we've ever had, even though the deer population is at its lowest point in many years.
How do you know that the population is lower than it has been in years? Just wondering. I always seem to see them in the woods and just about anywhere in Mid TN.
Continuous camera censuses run since 1999. Our local population peaked in '06, just before the EHD outbreak. The population has not rebounded since then. Plus, with a poor acorn crop in my immediate area, few deer are being drawn to the hardwoods from nearby bottomlands (not seeing as many seasonal range-shifters moving into the hardwoods after the crops were harvested).
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#2160952 - 11/12/10 07:39 AM
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I see some in the mornings, none at all moving during the day, and lots at last hour in Hardeman county.
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#2160960 - 11/12/10 07:41 AM
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Only seen 7 deer since the start of bow season...6 bucks and 1 doe. In a normal season, sighting should be around 50 to 60
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#2160972 - 11/12/10 07:45 AM
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Only seen 7 deer since the start of bow season...6 bucks and 1 doe. In a normal season, sighting should be around 50 to 60
you are having one of my seasons. the last 2 years i saw a grand total of 7 deer. this year, i have lost count. seeing at least 3 deer everytime out but sunday when i saw none.
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#2160974 - 11/12/10 07:46 AM
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Saw a group of 4 doe/fawns on the edge of some woods feeding in a cut bean field today at 6:10am.
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#2161429 - 11/12/10 12:22 PM
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wlf89
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dont know what is happing, last 10 years, less and less ever year. no such thing as a deer herd any more.4 or 5 at best.
not to long ago i could see 16-20 deer heard.
not much sign around here this year. plenty of food around here for them.
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