JonKy
New Member
Hello Friends,
I'm relatively new to hunting, with this being my third season (haven't gotten anything yet). Given my schedule and resources as a student I don't have access to private land and I also don't have much time to scope out public land, but I still end up trying to hunt on WMAs in Middle Tennessee and hike the wilderness with a rifle. Last year I hunted Yanahali for a couple weekends but couldn't get anything. It seemed really crowded a week from the start of gun season. My parents have a place near Bell Buckle TN and I was thinking about maybe hunting around in Normandy, Bedford Lake, and Owl Hollow WMAs since it saves me driving from Nashville to Columbia for Yanahali. I was wondering if any of y'all have any insight into how crowded the WMAs are and if there's enough deer density there to justify hunting there. I looked at kill counts in those WMAs and it seems like Owl Hollow is just as popular as Yanahali, but Normandy and Bedford Lake seem to be much less popular.
I'm relatively new to hunting, with this being my third season (haven't gotten anything yet). Given my schedule and resources as a student I don't have access to private land and I also don't have much time to scope out public land, but I still end up trying to hunt on WMAs in Middle Tennessee and hike the wilderness with a rifle. Last year I hunted Yanahali for a couple weekends but couldn't get anything. It seemed really crowded a week from the start of gun season. My parents have a place near Bell Buckle TN and I was thinking about maybe hunting around in Normandy, Bedford Lake, and Owl Hollow WMAs since it saves me driving from Nashville to Columbia for Yanahali. I was wondering if any of y'all have any insight into how crowded the WMAs are and if there's enough deer density there to justify hunting there. I looked at kill counts in those WMAs and it seems like Owl Hollow is just as popular as Yanahali, but Normandy and Bedford Lake seem to be much less popular.
