Oak ridge

[waterman]

Got lucky today. Liked to have killed me getting him out. Luckily another hunter helped me finish dragging, lol. 3 1/2 year old , 125# . Saw a bruiser at check in. 185# 11 pt.heres a pic of the successful map of any hunting tomorrow

 

[EastTNHunter]

Congrats

 

[Ski]

Great job congrats!

 

[Gravey]

Congrats!!!

 

[BLOODTRAIL]

Congrats

 

[Daniel n]

Congrats

 

[Snake]

Awesome ! Congratulations on a nice buck.

 

[Turkeychaser]

Congratulations!

 

[Apostolic Outdoors]

Congrats!!

 

[Wrangler95]

Congrats!

 

[JeepKuntry]

Congrats. Had a buddy kill 3 does. He didn't have a buck tag. Said it about killed him getting them all out!

 

[timberjack86]

Congrats!

 

[PossumSlayer]

Nice buck!

 

[waterman]

Congrats. Had a buddy kill 3 does. He didn't have a buck tag. Said it about killed him getting them all out!

I couldn't imagine doing that x3!!!

 

[bigtex]

Nice Buck! Congrats!!

 

[DMD]

Congratulations. Nice buck.

 

[.243 Deer]

That's a dandy buck !

 

[Snake]

Congrats. Had a buddy kill 3 does. He didn't have a buck tag. Said it about killed him getting them all out!

Been there and done that ..no fun after the kill .

 

[arctic_cat]

Congrats. No pic of the big one at station?

 

[mcbuck58]

Got lucky today. Liked to have killed me getting him out. Luckily another hunter helped me finish dragging, lol. 3 1/2 year old , 125# . Saw a bruiser at check in. 185# 11 pt.heres a pic of the successful map of any hunting tomorrow

Congrats good buck

 

[foraker1985]

Congratulations!!

 

[Volbuck777]

Congratulations

 

[waterman]

Big one at the check in

 

[DoubleRidge]

Congratulations!

 

[mayberryrick]

Big one at the check in

Big ole neck! Oak Ridge used to grow some giant racked bucks but not seen that since the ehd die off….

 

[waterman]

We were just discussing that

 

[quackaholic]

Big ole neck! Oak Ridge used to grow some giant racked bucks but not seen that since the ehd die off….

I really don't think it's fully recovered. They should back off the doe tags for a year or two. I know that will never happen as the only reason they allow hunting at all is to curb deer/vehicle collisions. And they have accomplished that. The deer i shot there 2 years ago was a survivor of the outbreak. He was 3½ years old 8 point and only field dressed 95#. Granted it made his rack look really big in conjunction to body size, but the mount looks pitiful. My son in law saw 2 deer in tower shielding and I saw 0. The spot we were used to be covered in deer sign and there was very little. I'm sure I would have been happier had we got to hunt the first 2 places I had picked, but when we got to them there was 4 vehicles there already. So we hunted on past experiences instead of scouting intel. I hope everyone else faired better. I also know a guy who put out a cell cam on scout day. He had 1 doe and a crazy racked 7 point on that cam. Granted that buck was a heavy deer.

 

[quackaholic]

It's a pretty decent indicator your population is suffering, that over the weekend so far only 20 does have been taken with 1050 people with 3 antlerless permits and 2 antlerless permits are field. That's a terrible success rate and you don't even need to do the math.

 

[KTS]

Congratulations!

 

[Mtncur76]

Still better than catoosa hunted both days and never got walked in on or even saw another light any were around me. Did shot a six on Saturday nothing to brag about but meat in freezer and is still a bonus buck