Can you elaborate? What do you mean?

What he means is, there has been way to many does killed since they made every hunt a doe hunt.

I say every year that I'm gonna get in a club and stop hunting that forsaken place but I never do. Old habits are hard to break.

It's terrible man. I have no idea what they are thinking with all of that crap. I don't go to the WMA anything like I used to, but when I do....it amazes me how little overall deer sign there is on Zone B relative to back in the day.

Saw a good bit of rut activity where we were at this weekend during the Skyline hunt. One fellow hunter that was camping with us shot what he thought was a 10+pt chasing does Friday afternoon. Unfortunately after 2 days of following several hundreds of blood, he wasn't able to track him down and find him. My hunting partner shot a bruiser 11 pt. Saturday morning. He said he was grunting up a storm and came on a b-line to his doe bleat can call. As for me, I saw a spike running 3 does. All the other bucks I saw were alone just cruising through the woods and small. I'm hoping that a lot of this rut activity will be going on during the next hunt. I sure am looking forward to it.

Petey where were you camping at? A few of us were at little coon camp

I remember about 3 years ago when at lunchtime on low gap road you would see a line of trucks with about 2 does each on them. Killing that many does didnt help.
I wish they would only have 2 gun doe hunts at the beginning of gun season then make it bucks only. i would let youth hunters kill a doe all season long though.

With all the hunting activity at Skyline, how important is to get away from the easy access areas? Saturday morning I was on Money Hollow Rd and you could hear all the traffic on Tate Cove Rd. I'm thinking I may need to get deeper away from high traffic. I thought about going up into TN and coming in on Cave Springs Rd but I have never hunted up there and would basically be walking into where I thought might be a good spot.

If too many does are being taken, I like the sound of that.

My cousin and I camped at the Walls Friday night. It got down to 10 degrees that night. All of our food and water froze over night so we only got to hunt Friday. I found a ton of fresh scrapes and sign but didn't see any deer. Didn't get to hunt Saturday because my cousin was ready to head home.

Its a double edged sword ... Get to far away and there ain't enough hunters to get the deer moving. Get too close and 30 hunters are firing at the same deer.

I thought I would go in Cave Spring Rd and hike down but then heard horror stories of it taking 4 men, a truck with a winch, and 300 ft of cable to get a deer back out the top.

Really? I wouldn't do it by myself, but with a friend I would think we could do it. But I haven't been there so I don't really know how aggressive the terrain actually is. I don't think I would go all the way down to the bottom.

Our present area manager came from Barbour wma a few years ago. That's when all the doe gun hunts began. That many people killing 2 does a day hurts a place like that. I can see it down at Barbour with a deer density 3x higher at least. I wish the only does killed would be bow or PW like it used to be.

ONE MILLION ATV's running around Skyline Saturday. I think 90% of them were from Jackson Hunting club. I think they have more members then places to hunt, so they flood the public lands...

So did anyone kill anything.

Sorry I missed you the second go around BBB. My back finally gave out, I was down for several hours

Well, I am holding out hope there will still be some rut activity in two weeks. I want to at least see something moving.

Nope we all struck out. Michael passes on several nannys and I only saw one deer. He looked like a good buck, but was across a hollar and getting some gone.

I passed on a pile of does. Had an 8 pt cruise by but was way to far into the thick to shoot

I want to see some dead buck pics...those of you that killed or had buddies that killed, post up some pics.

That stinks. I hunted hard!!! from Thursday- Sunday and saw 1 deer. Pitiful!!!