I proposed a similar proposal over the past several years but have changed this proposal after speaking with several hunters and response from the previous proposal. I am asking TN hunters to take the time to answer this survey and I will tally the results and send the proposal to the TWRA during the public comment period for the 2016-2017 hunting season. Before knocking the proposal please take time to read the proposal on the survey One respondent from another local TN hunting blog brought up the fact the deer get a break, do realize there is no break after archery as youth season starts, then a week of archery, then Muzzleloder, then gun. A gunshot is a gunshot regardless from a firearm or muzzleloader

Thanks fellow hunters and Campfire.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HYZ62LX

So you basically want to eliminate muzzleloader season? I think it's a stupid idea.

That's a dumb fuuukk idea

Do you not have any flinters or traditional muzzleloaders still hunting in TN? Can't believe that.

I obviously have no dog in this one.

fugging browndowner rifle only hunter proposal it sounds like to me

or maybe someone that cant deal with the responsibility of maintaining and using a ml

shove your proposal up yer arse and go back to tndeer or what ever browndowner rifle only hunter tn website you are from

you musta had a bad season......................

try some better ideas that will improve the deer herd and hunting quality experience

1.make archery and ml hunters buy a permit to shoot 3 does a day just like rifle hunters have too

2. better yet
1 doe a day with permit for archery ml and gun
an all encompassing fee for browndowners to shoot meat for the baby

3. bring back split seasons with archery in between 2 ml seasons and 1 rifle season
the deer do need a break between ml and rifle
I do agree with that 100%

this is how it was for yrs

the "modern" 2007-2009 ish back to back ml and rifle seasons were done for morons (probably someone such as yourself)who don't read the regs and then claim ignorance that the old split seasons were just too confusing for them to understand

and that is according to twra
words right outta their mouths


SPLIT SEASONS ARE THE ONLY SOLOUTION TO HAVING A BETTER QUALITY OPENING WEEKEND RIFLE HUNT....................



preaching up the wrong tree around here to do away with ml season just so you can rifle hunt solely.................


HOPE YA GOT THICK SKIN AND DONT TAKE WHAT I HAVE TO SAY PERSONALLY

but I have heard dumb ideas for decades about deer in tn

the only good thing this state has for deer hunting since 2007 is pass the 2 buck limit

everything else has been geared for browndowners and eye candy license sales and good ole boys sitting on the govs appointed twrc shytbryd panel

when the twrc wont listen to twra biologist about reducing limits for decades and then some of the twrc cronies finnaly die off and a different mindset arrives and a 2 buck limit gets enacted all of a sudden cause mindsets change on the twrc
then that speaks for itself

the state needs to look at reducing doe harvest in some unitl counties to 1 a day


the fugging herd is not inexhaustible

fugg you could have a 35-50% die off from ehd in some counties in this state and they still wont reduce a limit
that has been proven and has happened ................






bottom line is bring back split seasons
and charge a permit fee for ml and archery browndowners to shoot does just like rifle hunters have too.





HAVE A NICE DAY

plenty of traditional guys in tn
I hung up my tc renegade 50 in 2011
hunted with that gun since 1992

now I use a "cheating devil gun inline"...................
the horror.....
the horror.....

How many different areas are you going to post this thread?

Thanks for your input Elmer. You do realize you're an Elmer don't you?

ELMER?????

I aint the one out whacking does for some jack links corn flavored beef jerky

East Tn people think they are somehow entitled to West Tn. They mismanaged and spot lighted all of their plentiful heard stocks. Now they want to burn up our resident does with their Type 94.

I will go to the commission meeting and propose a $50 per doe tag. That should slow down the riff raff.

Us landowners are tired of spoonfeeding you tapioca off of our holdings. About because you claim you need 14 goddamm deer to feed your white trash trailer park rugrats.

And btw
Renegade you are an Elmer's Elmer. Youre the one that makes little fat boy Roosty's hunts so uneventful

see this proposal is getting some support


bwahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you and bosshawg


jackwagons







extrodinaires.......................

if I only had half the deer you throwed off in a ditch, I could've made some jerky.

All of ours lately have been infected mercy killings LOL

Yes, you are a E L M E R.
Id much rather shoot a few doe (for my Mennonite corn flavored jerky, which is sliced btw, not ground)than a club footed 7 pointer that "had it coming". Thanks for playing E L M E R. Heres a tip, try to sit still for more than 5 minutes at a time and throw those stinking azz Pall Malls away while trying to hunt

that club footed 8 pt (not 7)also had a arrow wound thru his brisket
so that really made him have it coming

on public land

thanks for the advice about smoking


cant sit still
aint got no pile to watch on private land......................

Don't give me no shiiit about not having private land, I heard you ran every deer in a 50 mile radius away from Slumlord Acres. You and that roaming fever you have.

that is all on me for sure

We have a season that starts Oct 1 more or less for bow... runs a month. Then gun starts in and runs to Jan1. MZ runs from Jan1 more or less to almost end of Jan.

Guns booming for 3 months straight no break.

I have deer close enough to spit on the last weekend of MZ if I desire.

I had 8 bucks out this morning grazing. Including a 135 inch 10 point....

The 90 or so day season doesn't make a difference.

I'm not sure what you are after....most thinks you think spook deer are either very temporary, or are in your head generally...

I've seen some heck of a deer taken on and close to a local gun range.....

Right now seismic is blowing chit up all over the place... big booms all day long... yes, it may mess up the deer pattern one day when its real close, but its not made a hoot of difference other than 24 hours or so...

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

Blah blah blah

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"


Blah blah fuggin blah




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

bwahahahahahahahaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lots of support for the proposal

bwahahahahahahaaaaaa!!!!!

Fuuuuukkkkin Troll

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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.

Some form of antler restriction was the best thing that ever happened here... it keeps all the bubbas from killing the 1-2 year old bucks and has increased our overall population and our buck population here probably 10 fold, plus allowing folks that were ignorant, to see what can happen if you allow the deer to get a few years of age on them before you harvest them.

Prior to that we had many does never bred, just never having fawns and not contributing to the herd at all...

brown downers..........
big problem everywhere