where did all the deer go in middle tenn.
01-06-2009, 02:52 PM
#2
Spike
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Murfreesboro, TN
Posts: 80
RE: where did all the deer go in middle tenn.
Are you hunting Private land or on one of the WMA's? i have been hunting Percy all year long as I lost all my farms due to death, title passing, or the farm being sold. I saw deer on Percy until about the second week in December and I realized after that they are moving nocternaly. I did get a chance to hunt a private farm on December 30th and shot 2 does so they were moving there.
01-07-2009, 12:31 AM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Gleason, TN
Posts: 1,327
RE: where did all the deer go in middle tenn.
Haven't seen any deer here in West TN since around Thanksgiving. I'm hunting private land, but the neighborhood dogs are running them off here. Those are the only fresh tracks I've seen in a month.
01-07-2009, 07:43 AM
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 144
RE: where did all the deer go in middle tenn.
Out of the 4 of us that are hunting together here in middle,Tn we have seen one deer since Thanksgiving. We killed 2 bucks and a doe on Thanksgiving. It's like they just disappeared off the face of the earth over night. Were hunting public and private land. I think they have just went nocturnal and stay bedded down most of the time during the day.
01-08-2009, 06:41 PM
#8
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: East TN
Posts: 763
RE: where did all the deer go in middle tenn.
Don't hunt middle TN but do hunt east tn and was seeing deer all season long.Matter of fact I had 7 does in the field I was hunting wednesday evening,last day of the season.Harvest numbers are down yet again in TN due to the EHD outbreak last year.I'd expect a rebound next season,this year was sort of a rebuilding year.On the bright note,i've seen more deer this year and harvested more deer than any other year before.I hunt unit B.Private land too.
01-08-2009, 06:45 PM
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Warsaw,MO
Posts: 2,046
RE: where did all the deer go in middle tenn.
ORIGINAL: jssblues
i saw deer every time i went out in the early season, now i have not seen a deer since thanksgiving
W.T.F.... its like they all vanished
i saw deer every time i went out in the early season, now i have not seen a deer since thanksgiving
W.T.F.... its like they all vanished
01-09-2009, 02:08 PM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Roanoke, Virginia
Posts: 2,335
RE: where did all the deer go in middle tenn.
Yea same thing happened here. But our seasons over and guess what. Now I see all the deer in my county at times that I would be hunting. It sucks, but that hunting for you.
