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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5824311" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.tndeer.com/threads/velvet-hunt-devils-advocate-version.362368/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>The "trophy" buck <u>summertime</u> hunt wasn't anything most deer hunters wanted, not even most archery hunters were wanting it. It mainly benefits very few, and among those few, they are mostly accomplished deer hunters, but also opportunist poachers who find illegal baiting particular productive in late summer (before acorns drop and when many plants have dried up).</p><p></p><p>Among my other issues with it are it coincides with the "free" hunting day that was mainly designed to get youth into small-game hunting for squirrels, hoping to help make them lifetime hunters. Not to mention, this is also the opening of the statewide squirrel season.</p><p></p><p>It also precedes the statewide juvenile deer hunt.</p><p>Sure, a juvenile can participate. But unless they're illegally baiting, typically low odds for success.</p><p></p><p>So my main beef is it benefits only a small subset of mostly highly accomplished trophy buck hunters, or, a bunch of poachers whacking bucks when they're most vulnerable.</p><p></p><p>That said, yes, some hunters have great opportunities to legally kill a velvet buck in a soybean field. But the majority of TN hunters do not have that opportunity. I also know there are a few honest hunter families who love the velvet hunt opportunity and do everything 100% legal regarding.</p><p></p><p>But I'm more convicted than ever now that a much higher percentage of bucks taken during the velvet hunt are illegally taken in late August than on any other weekend of TN's deer season. To a large degree, the date of this hunt seems to more or less punish most hunters, while particularly rewarding those who illegally bait (poach).</p><p></p><p>Many the calls to legalize hunting over bait now stem from the creation of this trophy buck velvet hunt.</p><p></p><p>There's an entire thread about it linked above.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5824311, member: 1409"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.tndeer.com/threads/velvet-hunt-devils-advocate-version.362368/[/URL] The "trophy" buck [U]summertime[/U] hunt wasn't anything most deer hunters wanted, not even most archery hunters were wanting it. It mainly benefits very few, and among those few, they are mostly accomplished deer hunters, but also opportunist poachers who find illegal baiting particular productive in late summer (before acorns drop and when many plants have dried up). Among my other issues with it are it coincides with the "free" hunting day that was mainly designed to get youth into small-game hunting for squirrels, hoping to help make them lifetime hunters. Not to mention, this is also the opening of the statewide squirrel season. It also precedes the statewide juvenile deer hunt. Sure, a juvenile can participate. But unless they're illegally baiting, typically low odds for success. So my main beef is it benefits only a small subset of mostly highly accomplished trophy buck hunters, or, a bunch of poachers whacking bucks when they're most vulnerable. That said, yes, some hunters have great opportunities to legally kill a velvet buck in a soybean field. But the majority of TN hunters do not have that opportunity. I also know there are a few honest hunter families who love the velvet hunt opportunity and do everything 100% legal regarding. But I'm more convicted than ever now that a much higher percentage of bucks taken during the velvet hunt are illegally taken in late August than on any other weekend of TN's deer season. To a large degree, the date of this hunt seems to more or less punish most hunters, while particularly rewarding those who illegally bait (poach). Many the calls to legalize hunting over bait now stem from the creation of this trophy buck velvet hunt. There's an entire thread about it linked above. [/QUOTE]
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