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Early Velvet season this year?
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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5666516" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>This has pretty much been my personal thoughts, i.e. a novelty type thing.</p><p></p><p>While I see that older bucks are more patternable around agricultural crops (found more in West TN), they are much less patternable (more nomadic) in woodlands areas (more like much of Middle & East TN).</p><p></p><p>Just a guess, but I suspect somewhere around half the velvet bucks taken in Middle & East TN are being taken over a corn pile. Spend a little time around your County's Farmers' Co-Op a week before the velvet hunt, and just observe who is suddenly buying the bags of corn.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I agree. Real challenge with a bow in a more wilderness or timberland area (non-big-ag area), and pursued fair chase. Never mind that most, even the avid, deer hunters have little or zero interest in deer hunting during the heat of summer.</p><p></p><p>For those who are interested, that interest is totally driven by the allure of big antlers with velvet (not eating the venison, even though it still can be done). Most of us understand, appreciate the allure of big antlers. And every one of us is in fact a "trophy" deer hunter simply because we see every deer we kill as a "trophy". Most of also eat our venison, therefore most us could also be labeled as "meat" hunters as well, or as I would label most of us, "sportsmen" and conservationists.</p><p></p><p>But the general public sees the velvet hunt as 100% "trophy" hunting, which they are using in attempt to cast us all in a bad light, especially when so much of it is accomplished by illegal means, going both against the law and the former rules of fair chase. On a per deer taken basis, I suspect the illegal means during the velvet hunt far exceed any other hunting dates.</p><p></p><p>Even in Middle & East TN, there is a rise now in the use of suppressed rifles and night-vision scopes to kill deer with rifles (illegally) during archery season. This becomes the growing public view of deer hunters, i.e. they're a bunch of outlaws, poachers, so for the general good of the public, we should outlaw "sport" hunting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5666516, member: 1409"] This has pretty much been my personal thoughts, i.e. a novelty type thing. While I see that older bucks are more patternable around agricultural crops (found more in West TN), they are much less patternable (more nomadic) in woodlands areas (more like much of Middle & East TN). Just a guess, but I suspect somewhere around half the velvet bucks taken in Middle & East TN are being taken over a corn pile. Spend a little time around your County's Farmers' Co-Op a week before the velvet hunt, and just observe who is suddenly buying the bags of corn. I agree. Real challenge with a bow in a more wilderness or timberland area (non-big-ag area), and pursued fair chase. Never mind that most, even the avid, deer hunters have little or zero interest in deer hunting during the heat of summer. For those who are interested, that interest is totally driven by the allure of big antlers with velvet (not eating the venison, even though it still can be done). Most of us understand, appreciate the allure of big antlers. And every one of us is in fact a "trophy" deer hunter simply because we see every deer we kill as a "trophy". Most of also eat our venison, therefore most us could also be labeled as "meat" hunters as well, or as I would label most of us, "sportsmen" and conservationists. But the general public sees the velvet hunt as 100% "trophy" hunting, which they are using in attempt to cast us all in a bad light, especially when so much of it is accomplished by illegal means, going both against the law and the former rules of fair chase. On a per deer taken basis, I suspect the illegal means during the velvet hunt far exceed any other hunting dates. Even in Middle & East TN, there is a rise now in the use of suppressed rifles and night-vision scopes to kill deer with rifles (illegally) during archery season. This becomes the growing public view of deer hunters, i.e. they're a bunch of outlaws, poachers, so for the general good of the public, we should outlaw "sport" hunting. [/QUOTE]
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