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1977 season

If I remember correctly, it was a one buck limit and the doe hunts were draw. One doe limit and it was for one weekend. There were about 1000 permits for the county I hunted.
 
While I believe it was very different across the state, East Tn had a 1 week rifle season around Thanksgiving and a 3-5 day muzzleloader season in mid December…best I recall. So, those dates would have been something like Nov. 19-27 and Dec. 15-18. I don't recall much about archery season but believe it was 2 weeks, just don't recall when it was.
 
I started deer hunting in 1972 in Maury County where I lived. Only the western half of it was open and the further east you went the fewer counties were huntable for deer. That seemed to change in the next few years gradually with more areas opening up as the deer numbers increased. I'm pretty sure the muzzle loading season proper didn't arrive until sometime in the early eighties.
 
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GOHUNT said:
While I believe it was very different across the state, East Tn had a 1 week rifle season around Thanksgiving and a 3-5 day muzzleloader season in mid December…best I recall. So, those dates would have been something like Nov. 19-27 and Dec. 15-18. I don't recall much about archery season but believe it was 2 weeks, just don't recall when it was.
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I graduated from high school in 1977 and that was my first year hunting. Here in Greene County, deer hunting was only legal south of the Nolichucky river and east of Highway 411. I remember this specifically because I grew up on the north side of the Nolichucky in a 200 year-old brick farm house.

Best I remember, archery season opened in late September and was buck only. Archery season was broken down into 2 or 3 separate 10-day sessions, with a 5-6 day break between each session. Rifle season always began the week before Thanksgiving.

Many folks complain about the seasons and bag limits now, but it is a total deer hunting paradise now compared to what it was 45 years ago!!!
 
utvolsfan77 said:
I graduated from high school in 1977 and that was my first year hunting. Here in Greene County, deer hunting was only legal south of the Nolichucky river and east of Highway 411. I remember this specifically because I grew up on the north side of the Nolichucky in a 200 year-old brick farm house.

Best I remember, archery season opened in late September and was buck only. Archery season was broken down into 2 or 3 separate 10-day sessions, with a 5-6 day break between each session. Rifle season always began the week before Thanksgiving.

Many folks complain about the seasons and bag limits now, but it is a total deer hunting paradise now compared to what it was 45 years ago!!!
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I believe it was 1987 when up around Jeraldstown opened. Bow hunted there with a friend that first year. Opening morning, horned trees all over the ridge I was hunting, 4 bucks came running by me, ran out into a field I could see and stopped. All 4 were nice shooters!
 
GOHUNT said:
I believe it was 1987 when up around Jeraldstown opened. Bow hunted there with a friend that first year. Opening morning, horned trees all over the ridge I was hunting, 4 bucks came running by me, ran out into a field I could see and stopped. All 4 were nice shooters!
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It was earlier than that because my dad lived on the upper end of Jeraldstown Road short of the Washington County line, and he had been hunting there since the late 1970s at least. My brothers and I still own land in that upper stretch.
 

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