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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5810781" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>I think I'm the exception. I've talked to a lot of hunters who said they've had a down year. We had one of our best years ever. Although we've been keeping hunting data for 37 years, we generally only look at the last 23 years, which we call our "Modern Era" of hunting - the point at which we started to place an exceptional amount of pressure on the place compared to previous. Starting in 2001 - the start of our Modern Era - we tripled and in some years quadrupled our hunting pressure. For the Modern Era (2001 to present) this year was our third best deer sighting rate and our top year for percent of hunts with deer sightings, buck sighting rate, percent of hunts with buck sightings, 2 1/2+ year-old buck sighting rate, and 3 1/2+ year-old buck sighting rate. Definitely one of our best years ever.</p><p></p><p>But to answer one of your other questions, normally in a great acorn year we draw more total deer and more total bucks to our upland hardwood property, but sightings decline because deer have to move so little to find food and the food they are finding - acorns - digest slowly so deer have to feed less often. But this year was an anomaly. With the massive acorn crop we experienced this year, we definitely had more deer (we shattered our all-time record for the number of bucks photographed on the place) but instead of declining sightings like a normal bumper acorn year, we broke records for sightings rates.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5810781, member: 17"] I think I'm the exception. I've talked to a lot of hunters who said they've had a down year. We had one of our best years ever. Although we've been keeping hunting data for 37 years, we generally only look at the last 23 years, which we call our "Modern Era" of hunting - the point at which we started to place an exceptional amount of pressure on the place compared to previous. Starting in 2001 - the start of our Modern Era - we tripled and in some years quadrupled our hunting pressure. For the Modern Era (2001 to present) this year was our third best deer sighting rate and our top year for percent of hunts with deer sightings, buck sighting rate, percent of hunts with buck sightings, 2 1/2+ year-old buck sighting rate, and 3 1/2+ year-old buck sighting rate. Definitely one of our best years ever. But to answer one of your other questions, normally in a great acorn year we draw more total deer and more total bucks to our upland hardwood property, but sightings decline because deer have to move so little to find food and the food they are finding - acorns - digest slowly so deer have to feed less often. But this year was an anomaly. With the massive acorn crop we experienced this year, we definitely had more deer (we shattered our all-time record for the number of bucks photographed on the place) but instead of declining sightings like a normal bumper acorn year, we broke records for sightings rates. [/QUOTE]
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