I hunt Montgomery, Stewart County, TN, Fort Campbell and Christian, Trigg County Kentucky. I to am originally from East Tennessee and when I retired from the Army 50% of what kept me in Clarksville was the hunting. Plus we are really close to Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, and Indiana which all have nice deer. And I won't lie, I do not miss dragging deer up and down those mountains and nasty a$$ draws back home.
That's a valid argument in Some areas at least. Much of Trigg counties soil will make a property manager look like an amateur but then a 150 inch 8 pointer walks out and all is forgiven.
1 Buck limit helps tremendously. I've passed bucks up that if I had 2 buck tags they would have definitely been killed. The 1 buck limit has saved a lot of deer.
The first 2.5 hours of rifle in my area pretty much takes care of any population control needed. LOL
I always count gunshots until 8 am every opening day. In the years past I've counted in the 90's. Luckily the ones I know around me are selective and don't just blast away. I don't know my neighbor on the west side but there's not that many shots there each year. I feel they are pretty selective too. Even if them or anyone around me isn't I don't sweat it too much. It's their property to do what they want. But it's nice to know the ones I do know are selective on that they shoot.
No it's definitely different here. Dang beautiful walnut trees everywhere and some of the best looking crop fields I've ever seen. All indicators of excellent soil imo
Need a hunting buddy?
Serious question- is it different than the soil quality we have along the TN river and West TN river bottoms with crop fields?
IMO yes, just looking at the quality of the timber and crops.
