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Do you guys ever have seasons where it seems that your entire deer herd goes nocturnal for a while? I know too much hunting pressure can do that with deer and hogs, but we've not been hunting much over the last few weeks and deer movement has slowed to a crawl. Cameras reveal lots of deer but only nighttime photos. Everybody around us is reporting the same thing. Our acreage is in a very rural area with a lot of different landowners and several big hunting clubs but it is now rare to hear more than one gunshot on a weekend evening. Everybody is scratching their heads. It's been pretty warm lately and the moon has been bright, but this seems really odd, as we're not doing any very different from previous deer seasons. Of the last 5 times I've been on a stand, I've seen one deer, total. That hasn't happened to me in at least 10 years. It's weird.......

The way I see it, I kill EVERY doe in sight. Give all that meat to starving winos or fuggit just toss the carcasses into a ditch.

I can do that every year just me and my buds.


Oh wait, goddammitt where's all the bucks at? Oh that's right there aint no pussy in my thickets cause i killed it all in the name of cheap beer and remington.

Now all my resident bucks are wandering off 5 miles away all exposed to spotlighters.


Jeeze I'm punching myself in the nuts now cause all my does are depleted. I sure hope the magic fairy from the State Game Dept can air drop me some more pussy to hold these bucks in my thickets.

Oh well, I gotta run. CoreLokts are "on sell" at the Fulton, Tn walmart.

when all the brown downers in tn start complaining about no deer is probably when the govs cronyies on the twrc will command the twra to reduce doe limits so the population will rebound in overhunted areas


the brown downers are the root of this and eye candy limits for them as put out by the twrc to the twra for license sales are to blame also








from very reliable inside sources that I have spoken and others have also spoken too

almost 2/3rds of the twra biologist 5-7 yrs ago were against increased doe limits and having back to back ml and then rifle season
a lot of them are also in favor of a 2 buck limit
which most people I hunt with or associate with are also in favor of


our regs
are designed for the bubba brown downer hunters who get out opening weekend of ml and rifle
guys who might hunt 6-7 days a yr max is what drives our regs
and then the guys who have connections with twrc political appointees by the governor
good ole boy shyt................


the regs when we had 2 separate ml seasons and rifle seasons
and bow seasons worked just fine

at least the deer got a respite between ml and rifle with that week of bow inbetween

this was changed for simplicitys sake
cause it just soo confusing to your average hunter according to the twrc

b.s.
it was done so friends of twrc appointees could hunt back to back ml and rifle cause they was ticked off cause bow hunters got some pre rut and rut action





unfortunately it will never change

twra people have stopped fighting the govs appointees on the trwc cause of job security
which I have also heard from good sources



and going to the meetings don't make a difference in squat
unless you have some connection to a twrc appointee from your region








that is what is going in tn deer and turkey regs




the state needs to go to a 2 buck limit
and 1 doe a day limit and do a 3 turkey limit



then things will rebound


look at what they did when ehd hit hard in 2007


not a fuggin thing

they actually expanded unit l
and in some of the hardest hit counties at that........



trwc runs the show and has control of the strings of the trwa in all reality............

The poaching around my place is crazy, one guy has killed 17 bucks in 2 years. East TN doesn't have high deer density and IMO the Unit B guys need a 2 buck limit and a 3 doe limit. Eastern TN needs a 2 bird limit in turkey season also.


The biggest thing that needs to happen is if/when they ever catch a poacher they need to make an example of every single one of them and just nail their ass to the wall.

You must think those does just stand in the thickets while the bucks do their business?Doesn't matter how many does you have, if they aren't ready they will run a Helluva long way with buck in tow. They certainly aren't holding bucks on a 200-300 acre tract.