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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5248751" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>Exactly.</p><p></p><p>Those accustomed to hunting farmland deer may have a tough time hunting LBL now (without the ag crops). The deer are now more nomadic, more like "wilderness" deer in the Cherokee National Forest.</p><p></p><p>In times past, the deer density was much higher, and they were relatively easy for more hunters to kill just by setting up around ag fields. All the scouting the day before the hunt causes a lot of deer to "shift" their routines a bit, as they will spend the next day more in places no one happened to scout and set themselves up to hunt.</p><p></p><p>That sudden intrusion, more in a day than the deer typically experience in a month, simply causes the deer to be less active the day of the quota hunt. Wherever the hunters "scout", you can bet most of the older deer move away from those areas. They don't go far, but often just two or three hundred yards is enough to become undetected for a couple days.</p><p></p><p>Ironically, for these quota hunts, the areas with the least deer sign are often the most productive, as the deer tend to quickly gravitate to the areas the hunters have ignored the prior day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5248751, member: 1409"] Exactly. Those accustomed to hunting farmland deer may have a tough time hunting LBL now (without the ag crops). The deer are now more nomadic, more like "wilderness" deer in the Cherokee National Forest. In times past, the deer density was much higher, and they were relatively easy for more hunters to kill just by setting up around ag fields. All the scouting the day before the hunt causes a lot of deer to "shift" their routines a bit, as they will spend the next day more in places no one happened to scout and set themselves up to hunt. That sudden intrusion, more in a day than the deer typically experience in a month, simply causes the deer to be less active the day of the quota hunt. Wherever the hunters "scout", you can bet most of the older deer move away from those areas. They don't go far, but often just two or three hundred yards is enough to become undetected for a couple days. Ironically, for these quota hunts, the areas with the least deer sign are often the most productive, as the deer tend to quickly gravitate to the areas the hunters have ignored the prior day. [/QUOTE]
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