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I'm 38 and have lived here 37 years...and imho find somewhere far away from there....you are gonna end up aggravated at side by side traffic...and all the nonsense they bring w them....find some TVA land...much better..just my .02
Lesson learned on doing my research, I had no idea hunting TVA land was even a thing. I've been under the impression I could only hunt TWRA public land. Thanks for the tip!
 
Interesting to see this. Our local WMA is nothing but side by sides also. You can't hear yourself think during deer or turkey season. Almost all of them drunk and blaring music. You would think the TWRA would want some kind of restrictions to at least help hunters during the seasons.
As long as they have your license money and their trail permit money they could care less about either sets of people! And dont even get started about what they are allowing to happen to the land in name of permits money🤬
 
I hunted up there for the first time last Tuesday. On the way in we saw 18 elk feeding in a field, drove another mile and about 12 pigs ran across the road in front of us. We drove on, didn't see or hear a 4 wheeler. Didn't see a deer that evening, we went back the next morning to try to kill some pigs. At about 9:30 a doe came by running out of a thicket. She smelled me and ran to the next bench down. I quietly moved down wind and set up. Within 30 minutes a nice 8 point came cruising by looking for the doe. I flinched like an idiot and missed him. That's 18 elk, a herd of pigs and a doe and nice buck in about 5 hours of hunting. There was no other hunters near us and we saw 2 vehicles on the way out. Btw our truck never left two wheel drive. I hunted about 400 yds off the road and saw the buck closer than that to the road. There are literally thousands of acres that fit this same description. What's not to love?
 
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I hunted up there for the first time last Tuesday. On the way in we saw 18 elk feeding in a field, drove another mile and about 12 pigs ran across the road in front of us. We drove on, didn't see or hear a 4 wheeler. Didn't see a deer that evening, we went back the next morning to try to kill some pigs. At about 9:30 a doe came by running out of a thicket. She smelled me and ran to the next bench down. I quietly moved down wind and set up. Within 30 minutes a nice 8 point came cruising by looking for the doe. I flinched like an idiot and missed him. That's 18 elk, a herd of pigs and a doe and nice buck in about 5 hours of hunting. There was no other hunters near us and we saw 2 vehicles on the way out. Btw our truck never left two wheel drive. I hunted about 400 yds off the road and saw the buck closer than that to the road. There are literally thousands of acres that fit this same description. What's not to love?
Try hunting there in the weekend like most people have to and see if there's any traffic
 
Try hunting there in the weekend like most people have to and see if there's any traffic
There are popular areas that have literally thousands of riders through a days time. The riders get off and party in crowds of hundreds, they are loud and obnoxious. Why anyone would want to hunt next to that is beyond me but, I hear it all the time and apparently people want to hunt close to the few party areas.
This hunt was on the Tuesday after work and Wednesday morning before Thanksgiving. To say you can't get away from riders on 200,000 thousand acres on any day of the week is false. There are thousands of areas where you can walk behind a gate that says foot travel only. You can find a pull off on a road and either go up, down, or sideways where no one will bother you. If I wanted to hunt near the folks with the crazy lights and the jacked up side by sides then I could easily. Just know you can have a really good experience up there in a lot of areas.
 

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