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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5632667" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>Your experience is not unusual.</p><p>The simple reason is simply because there aren't that many bucks in TN with 140-plus class antlers.</p><p></p><p>However, sometimes it may appear there's more than there's actually not.</p><p>Let's say you see a 140-class buck periodically on your property.</p><p>There may be a dozen other property owners within a couple miles of you, also seeing that same buck on their property.</p><p></p><p>There are typically two (or more) "seasonal" range shifts where the deer move their core areas commonly 1/2 to 2 miles. Then, during the rut, the bucks frequently roam nightly or daily over 2 linear miles, maybe making a large circle (encompassing thousands of acres) about every 48 hours.</p><p></p><p>We as landowners & hunters may "like" to think "our" bucks spend most their time just on "our" property. I've found this to be the opposite of reality, even on some very large tracts of land.</p><p></p><p>But as BSK will tell you, it's always site specific, and unique factors can & do exist. I'm mainly talking about free-ranging rural farmland & wilderness type area deer. Urban deer may have much smaller ranges and do much less range shifting.</p><p></p><p>By the way, Ft. Campbell is mostly in Kentucky, the "Fort" being surrounded mostly on 3 sides by a statewide 1-buck limit. Then, Ft. Campbell itself has a 1-buck limit coupled with more limited buck hunting than the surrounding areas in either TN or KY. We "should" see more larger antlered bucks within Ft. Campbell than on most private properties in TN. Ft. Campbell also contains some of the best soils in KY or TN along with great deer habitat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5632667, member: 1409"] Your experience is not unusual. The simple reason is simply because there aren't that many bucks in TN with 140-plus class antlers. However, sometimes it may appear there's more than there's actually not. Let's say you see a 140-class buck periodically on your property. There may be a dozen other property owners within a couple miles of you, also seeing that same buck on their property. There are typically two (or more) "seasonal" range shifts where the deer move their core areas commonly 1/2 to 2 miles. Then, during the rut, the bucks frequently roam nightly or daily over 2 linear miles, maybe making a large circle (encompassing thousands of acres) about every 48 hours. We as landowners & hunters may "like" to think "our" bucks spend most their time just on "our" property. I've found this to be the opposite of reality, even on some very large tracts of land. But as BSK will tell you, it's always site specific, and unique factors can & do exist. I'm mainly talking about free-ranging rural farmland & wilderness type area deer. Urban deer may have much smaller ranges and do much less range shifting. By the way, Ft. Campbell is mostly in Kentucky, the "Fort" being surrounded mostly on 3 sides by a statewide 1-buck limit. Then, Ft. Campbell itself has a 1-buck limit coupled with more limited buck hunting than the surrounding areas in either TN or KY. We "should" see more larger antlered bucks within Ft. Campbell than on most private properties in TN. Ft. Campbell also contains some of the best soils in KY or TN along with great deer habitat. [/QUOTE]
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