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When hunting in West Tennessee on our place its been about normal, except for rutting activity that was early.

On some of the public land I hunt close to home in Middle Tennessee I've definitely noticed earlier than normal nocturnal activity, especially with the does. I expect it with bucks, but not so much with the does.

The Orange Army descends here from about the first week of November until thanksgiving and usually sightings pick up again in mid December. Things seem to be changing though. Fewer and fewer does seen, but heck a lot of them are killed also.

I've often thought we might be killing too many does, and need to rethink the three per day limit.