Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire 16-17 Proposal Change for Taking Deer in Tennessee

I have no dog in this fight, but that proposal is about the stupidest line of reasoning I've ever heard.

With friends like that, hunters don't need enemies.


My proposal would be something like this: deer season in TN opens on September 1 and closes January 31. So long as you have a legal tag, you can kill the deer with whatever weapon floats your boat.

Other than success rates, the weapon used has no effect on herd management. The length of season has no effect either. Just manage your tags for what herd you want. All the other regulations are simply political (not biological or logical) means of taking away freedom.

I don't about Tennessee, but here in Kentucky in the zone I live in, there is no limit on does. The local Mennonites think this means they can kill 20 per family, and they're doing it without any concern as to what's going to happen in the future. One of my Mennonite neighbors invited his family from Pennsylvania down to hunt his farm, and we counted 18 shots opening morning on 70 acres, only about 5 which is wooded. Of course, I'm sure a lot were misses, but they have go crazy over deer hunting and the prospect of free food.

The deer herd in Tennessee varies from ares of overpopulation in Middle and parts of West Tennessee to fairly plentiful on the Cumberland Plateau to semi-scarce in the mountainous east. I live in a county where poaching has been a major problem since deer were first reintroduced. By the time that modern firearm season opens many of the best bucks have been poached. Still, our deer herd was decent until we had a breakout of EHD about 5 years ago. We lost a lot of deer and the population is still recovering.

Edited to add that I have seen few other hunters during the month of December. I believe the deer do get a break since the seasons are so long. No longer do hunters have to plan vacation time during the short seasons to get their deer. Now the season is long enough that hunters are not falling over one another.

I"ve always thought long seasons were easier on the animals.

If I was only given 10 days or such I"d be out all day every day after em...

we can change ish around all day long, it still circles back around to the fact that you are a Elmer and a Shiiity hunter. Keep hunting the Ft., nothing like wasting precious time while unemployed azzclown

You're a dumbass prick as usual. Fixed for the other prick...hard to reply while on a cell phone.

How much does East Tn hunters contribute to Middle and West Tn's economy during deer season? I would bet it's a significant amount.

East TN has never had the deer numbers that Middle and West Tn have. Middle and West Tn have more crop fields and habitat for deer.

Do we have poachers sure and so do you guys but it doesn't hurt your numbers because there are so many more deer per square mile. Our numbers have increased but our farmland and hunting areas has decreased due to a increase in population and paper companies selling off their land to developers.

West Tn suffers from no industry and there are few jobs that pay well. I pay $1200 for a 100 acre lease. The guy I lease from has around 34 farms. Guess who leases all his land but his farm that he hunts? It's people from West Tn. So lets not start ranting about the East Tn folks coming to kill your poor deer.

Leave the season alone if anything open bow season a week or two earlier and open muzzle loader for a week at the most two.

Open gun season around the second or third weekend in October.
Give 10 antlerless tags per hunter.
Georgia has a nice season similar to what I said above.

WOOOOOOO, I felt the wind off of that slap as it breezed by but it's YOU'RE not your
as in

Your feelings got hurt or
You're butt hurt over the truth

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All you east tn [bleep] stomp the woods flat at ft campbell. All we ever see is dumfukks from roane , greene, bradley.

Drive 5 hours to kill a spike or a 45 lb doe. All because you "need meat for your babies"


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I pay zero$$$ to hunt 307 acres of family land, 253 I live on.

So blow some more cash on your 50 lb fawn.

If it were me a state would say that a person can take X number of deer per year. Wouldn't matter if you decided to punch your tag in March or December. Who gives a [bleep] when you want to take a deer.

Also, the 2nd Saturday in November is NOT correct. The 1st Saturday in November is when ML season begun in 2012, it's relative the Saturday prior to Thanksgiving.

So in 2016 you would have GUN start on the 12th, when ML would start on the 5th.

So in short, blow it out your ass.

I've never hunted Ft. Campbell FYI.

I lease this property so I can take my kids hunting and they love it.

I am not fortunate enough to have 307 acres of family land. I'm sure if you didn't have the access to land you would have a different point of view.

As for does being killed I killed two this year and my son who is 8yrs old killed his first two deer ever. Memories I will cherish forever. I could have killed a lot more but I didn't. I also passed on several small bucks.

These smiles says it all. So keep up the classy as usual comments I expect nothing less from you.



Last year my daughter killed her first two deer and I killed one doe.

Scott, that's what I like about South Gerogia's season. You can kill 10 does whenever you want. I think it's two bucks with one having at least four points on one side.

Don't necessarily agree with the four pt restriction.

Who are you??
The game commisioner?
Eliminate a wekk of archery.

Take this stoopid idea to TnDeer
I'm sure they will love your Fuuuuukktard idea

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lots of support for the proposal

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Just get rid of special seasons for archery and ML.

I think this will bring more hunters in the woods earlier in the season. There is a marked increase in woods traffic b/t the first Saturday in November and the Saturday before Thanksgiving. I actually like the fact that deer aren't spooked (and change their routine) during the first Saturday in November. Your proposal would change that I would think.