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<blockquote data-quote="UpperTully" data-source="post: 5213608" data-attributes="member: 1983"><p>Another point I'd like to make and I'll digress. Many are speaking of seeing no deer and the low harvest numbers. The deer are still on the Island, I assure you that. It's just not the numbers it was 10-15 years ago.</p><p></p><p>The island has become your typical low deer density, Miss River style of hunting. It's no different from hunting the Miss River anywhere else in Tennessee. You may hunt several sits and see 1 or 2 or you may not see any. You may hunt 1 sit and see 6. You may hunt the rest of the season and see none. Hunting it with a bow during the heat of October when the bucks are predominatly moving at night and having 1 day to scout is going to yield a extremely low success rate, period. Especially when a bunch of guys are hunting it that's not used to hunting that kind of place. This is why I say you're wasting your time by applying for the Oct buck hunt. At least with the December hunt, you have the rut and cold in your favor. They're going to move but then again, it's still low density style hunting. Some will kill, some wont even see deer.</p><p></p><p>Hunting along the river isn't for everyone and will dang sure test your wits. Especially since we've been seeing so many record book floods in the past 10 years.</p><p></p><p>Being the current state of the island, I can think of several other quota and open to state wide WMAs or NWR in Tennessee where you have a higher success rate of killing a stud as big as you would on the island.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UpperTully, post: 5213608, member: 1983"] Another point I’d like to make and I’ll digress. Many are speaking of seeing no deer and the low harvest numbers. The deer are still on the Island, I assure you that. It’s just not the numbers it was 10-15 years ago. The island has become your typical low deer density, Miss River style of hunting. It’s no different from hunting the Miss River anywhere else in Tennessee. You may hunt several sits and see 1 or 2 or you may not see any. You may hunt 1 sit and see 6. You may hunt the rest of the season and see none. Hunting it with a bow during the heat of October when the bucks are predominatly moving at night and having 1 day to scout is going to yield a extremely low success rate, period. Especially when a bunch of guys are hunting it that’s not used to hunting that kind of place. This is why I say you’re wasting your time by applying for the Oct buck hunt. At least with the December hunt, you have the rut and cold in your favor. They’re going to move but then again, it’s still low density style hunting. Some will kill, some wont even see deer. Hunting along the river isn't for everyone and will dang sure test your wits. Especially since we’ve been seeing so many record book floods in the past 10 years. Being the current state of the island, I can think of several other quota and open to state wide WMAs or NWR in Tennessee where you have a higher success rate of killing a stud as big as you would on the island. [/QUOTE]
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