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What is wrong with East Tennessee?
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<blockquote data-quote="7mminatree" data-source="post: 3870152" data-attributes="member: 11235"><p>You have to realize that east Tn. has the most diverse habitat in the state. Not a lot of agriculture. Small farms, foothills up 2500 ft. elevation and mountains up to 6000 ft.+ elevation. So in places the deer numbers are very good and in the high mountains it tough for a deer to make a living. I lived in Greene Co. from the early 80's to the early 90's. We had a small farm in Baileyton. I could easily fill my tags every year with no problem. I considered myself a competent, above average deer hunter. We sold the farm and moved to Unicoi in 1993. I had to hunt the CNF public land and boy was I humbled. Not near the deer numbers, the terrain is nothing but a butt kicker, it's always bone chilling cold or snowing. It was a huge learning curve. I'd have to say I was a shooter of deer and not a hunter. I couldn't believe a person with my hunting experience was getting skunked! :bash:. Lucky for me I meet a great mentor. A friend of my dad's, he used to hunt the upper peninsula of Michigan during the depression. What a great hunter he was. I was blessed to have known him. One of the things he always said when I would complain about not seeing any deer was, "remember that in the big forests 90 percent of the deer will on 10 percent of the land." So that means putting your boots all over these mountains. Five, seven, ten miles of scouting going from 1500 ft. to 5000 ft. elevation will separate the hunters from the shooters. You central and west guys for the most part, have it easy and I'm envious, but it is what it is. You east guys, you just gotta keep searching. I don't think the east is still stuck in the seventies, I do remember the seventies, lots more deer now than then.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="7mminatree, post: 3870152, member: 11235"] You have to realize that east Tn. has the most diverse habitat in the state. Not a lot of agriculture. Small farms, foothills up 2500 ft. elevation and mountains up to 6000 ft.+ elevation. So in places the deer numbers are very good and in the high mountains it tough for a deer to make a living. I lived in Greene Co. from the early 80's to the early 90's. We had a small farm in Baileyton. I could easily fill my tags every year with no problem. I considered myself a competent, above average deer hunter. We sold the farm and moved to Unicoi in 1993. I had to hunt the CNF public land and boy was I humbled. Not near the deer numbers, the terrain is nothing but a butt kicker, it's always bone chilling cold or snowing. It was a huge learning curve. I'd have to say I was a shooter of deer and not a hunter. I couldn't believe a person with my hunting experience was getting skunked! :bash:. Lucky for me I meet a great mentor. A friend of my dad's, he used to hunt the upper peninsula of Michigan during the depression. What a great hunter he was. I was blessed to have known him. One of the things he always said when I would complain about not seeing any deer was, "remember that in the big forests 90 percent of the deer will on 10 percent of the land." So that means putting your boots all over these mountains. Five, seven, ten miles of scouting going from 1500 ft. to 5000 ft. elevation will separate the hunters from the shooters. You central and west guys for the most part, have it easy and I'm envious, but it is what it is. You east guys, you just gotta keep searching. I don't think the east is still stuck in the seventies, I do remember the seventies, lots more deer now than then. [/QUOTE]
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