I'm not saying ban the sale of them though, just not allowing them to be used in Tennessee. And sure people will probably still sneak them in on private land, just like there are most definitely turkeys and deer being killed over a bait pile on private land, but I do think a lot of decoy usage will decrease if it were illegal. And I believe that would help the population a lot. Mostly for the fact that the dominant breeders would do plenty of breeding rather than being so easily killed as they run in to fight a strutting decoy.
You are right about that! On the other hand I haven't seen that many this year on my cameras. Now last year they were a plague of epic proportions! There was no reason to try to hunt deer or hogs with so many bears around.
Bears are the gangsters of the woods! For some reason though I never see them during the season. I'm guessing they are going higher up the mountains for forage. Without dogs, bear hunting isn't really a thing unless you know what they are after. Baiting would help BUT then it attracts the danged things to where you live (in my case).My preference would be a year round season with bait and thermal until they are all dead but I'll take what we can get
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OK that makes sense. Thanks
If I'm reading things correctly, the entire state is back to 2 buck limit and the traditional G/M/A framework. The CWD counties still have earn a buck and replacement buck. Seems that we hunters didn't take the bait and start killing more deer than what we needed/traditionally killed in a season just because we could.
So the proposal was approved, and they are doing away with rifle opening in cwd unit right after the juvenile hunt?
That is how I understand it.
