I’ve walked miles of white oak flats and the acorns are just laying there rotting. The land we hunt in Tn it looks like every leaf has been turned over looking for one. You can ride any road up there and won’t find a place where more than 2 or 3 deer have crossed. Maybe in 5 years it will partially recover from the doe and button buck slaughter of the last 10 years.same old thing no food plots planted on little coon mtn but I can’t speak for the other side of 79.

And the state keeps telling us we need to recruit more hunters or lose funding. Funding for what ????


I don’t think we have a shortage of hunters but there is definitely a shortage of deer thanks to all the doe and knothead blasters.

Exactly! I think the shortage of hunters is bologna. Yea we might be down but according to the looks of pressure, we have plenty. They are always screaming for money so they can blow it on something else. I bet our greenfield money went over seas. I dont buy that excuse.

And again, social media is the number 1 killer anywhere. Same thing happened to bankhead. Over the years the posting gets more mainstream and the crowds follow. The wma cant handle that amount of people for so long. Its common sense. And most hunters are just like cattle, one goes there then the majority follow. It's happening to g ville lake too. All these places are getting ruined. Now they are just another wornout spot.

This true as the man calls knothead blasters

Nobody’s making y’all hunt up there.

No deer up there..nope..nope..nope..

It's been shot out.

On a positive note, there wasn’t any either sex rifle hunts on B side this year. Does the biologist have the say so to change things or is does a bill have to be sent to Montgomery to be voted on?

I don't believe it, either.
The state always uses license sales as evidence that less people are hunting. Just because someone doesn't buy a license doesn't mean they aren't hunting.

probably dont have anywhere else to go. it bez like dat fo us po folks

I was hunting little coon almost exclusively a few seasons back ... following two seasons of hunting the east side and having no luck. I took a 130 lb doe from coon so you guys can bash me for contributing to the decimation of the population. I saw several bucks there but they were in hard to reach places. Anyhow, I didn't see much deer up there back then (like 3 years back) and I doubt the population has done anything since then but shrink.

I was wanting to organize another Aldeer Little Coon Camp/Hunt next season and have spoke to a few about doing so. We may need to find another place ...

Word I got was that biologist is no longer there. Maybe things will turn around in a year or two.

Sat daylight to dark today with no deer seen and didn’t hear the first shot.

Kinda odd you keep going back. Same results.

hey ridgestalker, did you hunt down in LC or on top off 79?

Thanks for the tips

You know you’ve gotten to we’re the only comments you make anymore are all smartass. I’m use to it with two teenage girls.

Ok

zinger