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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5644907" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>So you have to decide what you want most from your hunting.</p><p>(And I am referring to deer more than turkey hunting or any other kind of hunting.)</p><p></p><p>If it's to kill more deer, that might mean just hunting where the crowds overlook. If it's more for a wilderness experience, it may mean focusing on those WMAs with a lower deer population, and known to be less attractive to most hunters.</p><p></p><p>Otherwise hard to get both on most public lands in TN. You either hunt where most wouldn't, or you go to WMAs most don't find attractive for deer hunting. For me, this often means putting on chest waders or hunting near a busy highway. Or it might mean hiking a couple miles into nothing but non-descript low-deer-density hardwoods in a national forest, i.e. no obvious remote destination like a field or anything someone studying a map would find as an attractive looking "spot" to go check out deep in those hardwoods.</p><p></p><p>One thing I have found, whether public or private lands, older deer tend to gravitate to those areas they are least bothered by hunters (at least during daylight). They may leave a lot of sign (like rubs, scrapes, tracks) in beautiful fields, but they do this mainly in the middle of the night, then bed a mile or two away from that field, in a place no one is likely to disturb them during the day. This is often a spot 50 yds from I-40 or I-75, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5644907, member: 1409"] So you have to decide what you want most from your hunting. (And I am referring to deer more than turkey hunting or any other kind of hunting.) If it's to kill more deer, that might mean just hunting where the crowds overlook. If it's more for a wilderness experience, it may mean focusing on those WMAs with a lower deer population, and known to be less attractive to most hunters. Otherwise hard to get both on most public lands in TN. You either hunt where most wouldn't, or you go to WMAs most don't find attractive for deer hunting. For me, this often means putting on chest waders or hunting near a busy highway. Or it might mean hiking a couple miles into nothing but non-descript low-deer-density hardwoods in a national forest, i.e. no obvious remote destination like a field or anything someone studying a map would find as an attractive looking "spot" to go check out deep in those hardwoods. One thing I have found, whether public or private lands, older deer tend to gravitate to those areas they are least bothered by hunters (at least during daylight). They may leave a lot of sign (like rubs, scrapes, tracks) in beautiful fields, but they do this mainly in the middle of the night, then bed a mile or two away from that field, in a place no one is likely to disturb them during the day. This is often a spot 50 yds from I-40 or I-75, etc. [/QUOTE]
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