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Congratulations.........help
Congratulations to all you successful bowhunters.
I used to be able to find a few deer. Not now. I covered about 7 miles this weekend looking in 4 different creek bottoms. I haven't found but one oak tree with acorns and very,very few deer tracks or sign. I never even bumped one......that I know of.
I worked the wind.....for the most part. I had a few lapses. You'd think that a person would accidentally jump a deer covering that much ground.
I was just scouting for gun season. I was being very careful of bowhunters. I never saw one of them either, in the woods. Almost all of them I saw, came out of the woods about 8:30. That's when I went scouting. If I saw fresh flagging, I'd get out of the area the way I came in.
If it weren't for drawing a doe permit for Alabama WMA, I'd head back to the National Forest a little further North.
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Well at least you know what 7 miles the deer are NOT in.
Scouting acorn trees has always been pretty dang hard for me. Got to find the right oak species and then which trees the deer prefer. As you said, some are dropping but it just depends on which kind. I'm still seeing deer browsing on beauty berry bushes and greenbrier.
Acorns can be boom or bust... I try to at least be near thick browse/clearcuts whenever possible, because they still eat some of that even when they're gorging on those sweet acorns. Hunting large oak bottoms can be like looking for a needle in a haystack in my experience, but it can be amazing if you can time it right. Another 3-4 weeks the acorns will be dropping pretty good tho.
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Need a little clarification from you guys.... A guy came by our camp this past weekend and said that he had talked to the game warden earlier that day and the game warden told him you have to have to be drawn for a doe permit, even in bow season. As I've always understood, that is only on the WMA land in DCNF. Have y'all heard anything about this?
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Originally posted by hittman View PostNeed a little clarification from you guys.... A guy came by our camp this past weekend and said that he had talked to the game warden earlier that day and the game warden told him you have to have to be drawn for a doe permit, even in bow season. As I've always understood, that is only on the WMA land in DCNF. Have y'all heard anything about this?
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Originally posted by from_ky View PostI was lucky enough to draw an antlerless permit this year. Thinking of heading down in a few days to check out the area. Never been to the Davy Crockett let alone the WMA. How are the hunters camp in the Alabama Creek WMA? Is 510A open?
Thanks
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Originally posted by from_ky View PostI was lucky enough to draw an antlerless permit this year. Thinking of heading down in a few days to check out the area. Never been to the Davy Crockett let alone the WMA. How are the hunters camp in the Alabama Creek WMA? Is 510A open?
Thanks
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