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Post by bigblue on Feb 22, 2008 17:20:22 GMT -6
Based on reports from previous years deer harvests, which area of Tennessee is the most productive?
Don
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Post by madoktor1 on Feb 22, 2008 21:04:54 GMT -6
HARDEMAN County.
Total:5755
Buck:2381
Doe:2979
Button:308
Antlerless Buck:87
Southwest Tennessee. From past season.
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Post by muzzy on Feb 22, 2008 23:30:42 GMT -6
depends on what you concider productive...are we talkin productive in taking the most does? best harvested buck/doe ratio? mosy p&y bucks? most b&c bucks? ect ect...
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Post by bigblue on Feb 23, 2008 5:13:10 GMT -6
depends on what you concider productive...are we talkin productive in taking the most does? best harvested buck/doe ratio? mosy p&y bucks? most b&c bucks? ect ect... I'm looking for total deer harvest by county or management area. For instance here's a link to the way PA. Game Commission shows their harvest totals. www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=493&q=167639The most productive PA. Wildlife Management Unit had 10,000 antlered and 22,100 anterless deer harvested. They count any doe and any buck with a three inch spike or less as anterless deer Don |
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Post by psycho on Feb 23, 2008 7:21:18 GMT -6
region 2 is most productive.
2006 REGION 1 59,415 ( 34.0 ) REGION 2 63,589 ( 36.3 ) REGION 3 32,816 ( 18.8 ) REGION 4 19,117 ( 10.9 ) 174,937
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Post by muzzy on Feb 24, 2008 20:15:03 GMT -6
its really hard to believe we kill that many deer here...i mean if my memory serves me correctly, kentucky all-time record harvest was in 2004 when they killed something like 126,000. thats 50,000 LESS than what we harvested this year and this wasnt even concidered a good year for tennessee hunters bc of drought and EHD.
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Post by DocHolladay on Feb 24, 2008 20:28:18 GMT -6
We probably wont see the real effects of the drought and EHD losses until this coming season. We also wont see the effects on plants until this year.
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Post by juliang on Feb 25, 2008 5:09:08 GMT -6
We have pretty liberal hunting laws for deer in TN, I think that is one of the reasons that we harvest more than KY. Our deer herd is 1,000,000 animals. According to the TWRA if we kill 200,000 a year, the herd will continue to grow.
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Post by psycho on Feb 25, 2008 9:50:06 GMT -6
those numbers I posted were 2006... 2007 fell short of the preditced 200,000 harvests.
We still had a good year here. muzzy, the regulations between tn and ky re to different to look into the numbers as a comparison
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Post by muzzy on Feb 26, 2008 22:50:22 GMT -6
but what i dont understand, psycho, is how both states can have an estimated deer heard of 900,000 (per bowhunter magazine 2004), and yet both states regs are such polar opposites. one would think that if both states are similar in size with the same estimated number of deer that they would atleast have regulations that are a little bit similar.
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Post by DocHolladay on Feb 26, 2008 23:12:19 GMT -6
If that was the case, several states around us would be on the same page too. Each state has different terrain, food sources and human populations. This all comes into play when it comes to management of wildlife.
Also, the whole state of Tennessee isnt on a 3 doe/day program. Units A and B are similar to Ky.
Here is something to ponder.... this past season Ky harvested a total of 113,436 deer total. TN had a total harvest of 164,352. Pretty amazing that we still end up with roughly the same population totals on deer(900,000 as of the 2004 article).
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Post by psycho on Feb 27, 2008 8:22:33 GMT -6
most of Tennessee's deer is in the middle and west side.. east side is sparse. It condenses the deer to a smaller portion of the state and that is the reason for the liberal seasons in Tennessee.. We'll see if overtime, the population of KYs deer passes TN due to the harvest numbers
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