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Re: Oak Mountain
[Re: rblaker]
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09/25/20 08:43 AM
09/25/20 08:43 AM
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Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 51,956 Round ‘bout there
Clem
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Mildly Quirky
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 51,956
Round ‘bout there
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After the hired sharpshooters wiped out a lot of the golf course deer and the bowhunters in the first few years knocked around the starving, wormy deer in the woods, the population began declining. A lot of the mature deer brought in for those first few hunts were severely malnourished, underweight and had other issues.
That was the point of both of those tactics - reduce the population, get them back to some semblance of health, and help the woods begin to regrow. Anyone who was there knew of the easily visible browse line about 6-8 feet high. Deer were eating cedars and pines, or anything they could get.
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Re: Oak Mountain
[Re: Bama two]
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10/01/20 01:25 PM
10/01/20 01:25 PM
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Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 4,584 Coosa County, AL
Coosa1
SOA Professional
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SOA Professional
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 4,584
Coosa County, AL
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I am looking at the back side of the park right now out my dining room window . . . and I got drawn for Zilch! Hell just bait em up into the yard and shoot em
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Re: Oak Mountain
[Re: Bama two]
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10/02/20 11:24 PM
10/02/20 11:24 PM
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Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 2,783 alabama
outdoors1
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 2,783
alabama
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The numbers certainly are lower than they were years ago but the carrying capacity is also low. There is not much browse in the park itself with a lot of mature pines and hardwoods. Once the acorns are gone there is not much to eat. I routinely see deer versus car on highway 119 near the park, one just last week. Likely deer coming off the park looking for food. I live next to the park and put out a small food plot in my back yard last year. I had 9 deer in one photo on my game camera. Have any pictures of any big ones?
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